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On Oct. 4, 43-year-old Daniel Elwood Duncan was arrested and charged with the murders of Vicky Purdy and Ricky Dodson of Henry County. The arrest happened more than a decade after the murders.
On Monday, a Franklin County Circuit Court grand jury handed down four indictments against Duncan: two counts of first-degree-murder, willfully defiling a dead body, and transporting a firearm by a felon.
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