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71. Stepmother Kills Herself
Lois Castle, 58, committed suicide at home with
revolver yesterday. Two police officers heard a single
as they were about to knock on her
door. They were at her house to arrest
for the 1970 murder of her young stepdaughter.
apparently realized that she was going to be
. Only a month earlier she had been interviewed
detectives about Dorothy’s death 35 years ago.
In
, Castle told police that the girl had fallen
of a tree she was climbing and hit
head on a rock. But Dorothy’s natural father,
, who was married to Castle at the time,
his wife was lying. “She said she would
me if I bother her again,” Dorothy had
her father earlier.
“Your little girl is making
stories about me. I try to love her,
she rejects me,” Castle told Dwayne.
An autopsy
inconclusive, and the death was ruled accidental. Dwayne
Castle shortly thereafter.
But the case was reopened
when a playmate of Dorothy’s came forward. Beverly
, also seven at that time, said she was
to knock on the door of Dorothy’s house
fateful day. But instead of knocking, she listened
as she heard Dorothy screaming for help and
telling her to shut up. Beverly listened until
was silent inside, then ran back home. She
so shaken by the event that she had
no one in all these years.
The coroner
up Dorothy’s body and did a second autopsy.
new crime-solving tools, he determined that Dorothy had
struck in the skull several times by a
the size of a baseball.
The police are
trying to locate Dwayne to tell him the
news.
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