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j:rESSED KILLER ???????
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beck to Fort 'or.th.
30-year old Pay Covington
ft cu-stioned by Los Angeles Sheriff's Sergeant
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Rey Covington signed c statErment
this veek saying it -es he afnd not his brother
Hickey Covington who killed Iorrison on ivember
17th, 1959 aurink an attermpteC robbery at the
eastside drugstore. ji ckey w:ho is 33-yevrs ol-d
ir currently in th_ :ntal .rf of J n T.eter
Suit12 hospital in Fort uortth after he confessed
the slpyin6*d o: his ara. under a
moving train in houston anc cut ,it off out of
rEc orse for thr killii. 20th brother! crc former
re n I tIien t s. Af t e 4, c 's
.confession, Ray saiK he vas conlcience stricken
and called a west coast newsman to confess the
crine,/,"O
At the Firesitone Sttatin of tie Los Angelez Comty
hr fi eps rten t, one of L o brot'^.;, 2 .
confefse killers of Fort T:rt' Cruggist Joma $
h orrison, is being readied for an airplane trip
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Confessed killer], script, February 24, 1961; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc940903/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.