Witness’ Late Recall Brings Sentence in ’71 Drowning
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<i> Associated Press</i>
KITTANNING, Pa. — An ex-convict was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison Tuesday for a drowning that a witness said he suddenly recalled more than 20 years after the crime.
Franklin Crawford, 49, was convicted of second-degree murder Feb. 17 in the 1971 death of Pearl Mae Altman. The 21-year-old woman was beaten and thrown into the Allegheny River in Kittanning, about 35 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
Crawford denied knowing anything about the crime.
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