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Friends Help You Move; Good Friends Help...

Michael O. Murphy, 68, went to a neighbor in Davison Township, Mich., to ask for a favor. “I got to get rid of this,” Murphy told Duane Morrish, because “it’s starting to smell.” He had tried to cut up the body of a man he had shot, but it had proven more difficult than he anticipated, and it was still in his garden shed. Could Morrish help him dump the body in a county park? Morrish figured Murphy was joking, but when he accepted the keys to the garden shed and took a look, he went to the police. Murphy is charged with first-degree murder, and faces life in prison. (RC/Flint Journal) ...And yes, we’ll help you move there.
Original Publication Date: 11 September 2016
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 23.

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