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Warden Killed in Alabama
Loaded on Jan. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1995, page 9
In Mid-October, 1994, Kelvin Washington, 27, was arrested and charged with the murder of Charles Farquhar, the warden of a state prison cattle ranch in Greensboro, Alabama, his wife and two prisoners. The bodies believed to be that of Farquhar and his wife were found bludgeoned in his brick ranch …
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