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Cops Shaft Informant
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1993, page 14
In 1989 John Fay was serving a 15-35 year sentence for a second degree murder committed in 1973 and a 1984 armed robbery. While at the county jail pending a hearing on the robbery conviction, Fay came in contact with two guys who had just been arrested for an across ...
Filed under:
Classification,
Transfers,
Informants (Disciplinary Hearings),
Escapes.
Location:
Pennsylvania.
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