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Sirens & Gavels archive for Dec. 29, 2009

TUESDAY, DEC. 29, 2009


Search ends with suspect still at large

Police searched the area of Sharp Avenue and Stone Street in east central Spokane today for a man wanted on a state Department of Corrections warrant. Officers didn't find Joshua A. Jackson, 31, and ask anyone who knows where he is to call 911. Police…

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“I still have trouble with it on Mother’s Day,”  Vicky Littell said last week. Her daughter, Susette G. Werner, was struck and dragged to death, and the driver has never been identified. (Jesse Tinsley / The Spokesman-Review)

Dragging death still unsolved

Ten months since their daughter was found dead in a Spokane street, dragged more than 13 blocks by a driver who has never been found, and the questions remain: How? Why? And, above all, who? “I have a hard time with it, especially on Mother’s…

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