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Seattle pays $300K to man wrongly convicted of girl's murder

| July 25, 2020 12:03 AM

SEATTLE (AP) — The City of Seattle has paid $300,000 to settle a lawsuit filed against the Police Department and detectives who helped investigate and arrest a Seattle man accused in the sensational abduction and murder of a 7-year-old Illinois girl in 1957.

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