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Guilty Plea in Minister's Death
CLEVELAND, Ga. (AP) A 20-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing a northeast Georgia chaplain who gave him a ride home.
William Joseph Dyer pleaded guilty to murder Tuesday in the Dec. 1 death of 44-year-old Frank Harris Jr. of Clermont. Harris was stabbed in the abdomen and then run over with his own car in an apparent robbery attempt.
A murder charge against Dyer's 29-year-old girlfriend, Jennifer Lineberger, was dropped. She pleaded guilty to theft and other charges and was sentenced to three years in prison.
Harris, a father of three, was chaplain at Gainesville's Compassionate Hospice and a part-time youth minister at Pendergrass Baptist Church. District Attorney Stan Gunter says Harris picked up the pair hitchhiking at a gas station on U.S. 129 near Gainesville.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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