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Police Use Poster as Crime Solver

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RALEIGH — Raleigh police hope a new poster will helpthem solve the murders of six African-American women. Photographs of fiveof the victims appear on the poster.

All of the victims had a history of involvement either with drugs orprostitution. Most were strangled to death.

Last Wednesday, police arrested 60-year-old Leman Evans and charged himin connection with the death of DeWanna Burt whose body was found in aparking lot last January. Her likeness is not on the new poster.

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