Russell Deane, who has paranoid schizophrenia, beat Phyliss Deane to death with a hammer in June 2007 when he was 25.

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Another neighbor, Ronda Wilbur, said Dykes beat her dog to death with a lead pipe and then bragged to her husband about it.

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Neighbors had described Dykes as an unstable menace who beat a dog to death and threatened to shoot trespassers while patrolling his property armed.

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Recent investigations have either called several of Stump's assertions about Cobb into question or debunked them outright, including the allegation that Cobb beat a man to death in Detroit in 1912.

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In April, 19-year-old Henry Wachtel allegedly beat his 63-year-old mother to death in what his attorney described as an epileptic seizure.

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New Zealand beat Australia 66-64 in sudden death overtime to win the gold medal after the two sides had been locked together 58-58 after extra-time.

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