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Daughter, ex-tenant testify at retrial
Friday, January 19, 2007
By Bridget DiCosmo and Bill Moushey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
For parts of two days, Steven Slutzker's estranged daughter calmly provided circumstantial evidence implicating her father in the December 1975 murder of John Mudd Sr. of Wilkinsburg.
Amy …
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Accuser hedges testimony in Wilkinsburg flashback murder case
By Bridget DiCosmo and Bill Moushey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Contradicting his earlier testimony, John Mudd Jr. conceded yesterday that he knew his father had been murdered long before a supposed "repressed memory" episode struck him 15 years after the killing.
On Friday, Mr. Mudd, 36, who was 5 …
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By Bill Moushey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Friday, January 12, 2007
Thirty-one years after John Mudd Sr. was gunned down in his darkened basement and 16 years after his son says he had a flashback where he saw Steven Slutzker slay his dad, Mr. Slutzker went on trial for the second time.
During opening statements in Common Pleas Court yesterday, a jury of 10 women and two men heard Allegheny …
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By Bill Moushey
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
During his first trial in 1992, prosecutors contended after Steven Slutzker failed to find a hit man to slay his girlfriend’s abusive husband, he gunned down John Mudd Sr. in plain view of the his five year-old son – who would not remember it until he had a repressed memory episode 15 years later.
Mr. Slutzker claimed he had alibis to prove he …
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By Bill Moushey
January 31, 2005
In a highly celebrated case 13 years ago, Steven G. Slutzker was convicted of killing a Wilkinsburg man after the dead man’s child claimed he had a repressed memory episode in which he saw Slutzker slay his dad almost 30 years ago.
Yesterday, a federal appeals court ruled Slutzker should be released from his life sentence or re-tried within 120 days not …
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