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"Suspect and A Setback In Al-Qaeda Anthrax Case - Scientist With Ties To Group Goes Free"
Washington Post ^ | October 31, 2006 | Joby Warrick
Posted on 10/31/2006 2:52:25 PM PST by RDTF
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Suitor_Slain.html
Tuesday, October 31, 2006 · Last updated 10:29 a.m. PT
"Calif. man killed in Brazil in ripoff"
By KIM CURTIS AND STAN LEHMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITERS
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "SAN BRUNO, Calif. -- The lonely, divorced carpenter thought he was going to Brazil to make wedding plans.
Instead, he was drugged and held captive for six days at his fiancee's home while she and another man emptied his bank accounts, according to Brazilian authorities. Then they drove the 56-year-old victim to a vacant lot, where they strangled him with copper wire, doused his body with fuel, and set it on fire, investigators say.
Authorities found Raymond Merrill's charred body in April.
Now, the woman he believed was his betrothed is under arrest, along with a man suspected of helping to kill him.
"He would talk to me about ideal relationships and pure love," said Merrill's best friend, Bill Rauch. "With age doesn't necessarily come wisdom. He was used to doing things his way and, in the end, it did him in."
For months, his family knew nothing of his horrifying end. It was only after a bungled robbery in Brazil that investigators even learned of Merrill's fate."