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2 men indicted in 1974 slayings at W.Va. park

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    One man died and another is behind bars Saturday after a son shoots and kills his father at their Overlook Drive home in Stanaford.Raleigh County Sheriff's Deputies said 23-year-old Donald Gray Dunn, Jr.
    One man died and another is behind bars Saturday after a son shoots and kills his father at their Overlook Drive home in Stanaford.Raleigh County Sheriff's Deputies said 23-year-old Donald Gray Dunn, Jr.
FAIRMONT, W.Va. (AP) -

 

A grand jury has indicted a janitor from Florida and a West Virginia prison inmate on charges they killed three people at Fairmont's Windmill Park in 1974.

WBOY (http://bit.ly/W8E0nK) says a Marion County grand jury charged 59-year-old Eddie Jack Washington and 64-year-old Phillip Bush on Friday. Each faces three counts of first-degree murder and one count of conspiracy.

Authorities say they're responsible for the deaths of 20-year-old Lester Phillips, 19-year-old Wanda Jane Phillips and 27-year-old Billy Ray Cobb.

Washington was arrested Feb. 7 in Tampa, where he'd been living for more than a decade. He was being held Friday at North Central Regional Jail.

The Division of Corrections database shows Bush is already at Mount Olive Correctional Complex, serving a sentence imposed in 1983 for first-degree murder in Ohio County.