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I knew of Janet Uland who was murdered by David Purnell and I attended most of the trial. I never heard anything in the trial about David saying his Grandfather told him to do this. The defense brought out that David had moncler coats for kids been mentally abused by his ex wife and that she and her new boyfriend even asked him to be in their wedding. He had been devastated at her divorcing him. David’s father testified from a wheelchair and stated he saw King Ben (his father or grandfather I don’t remember) Discount Moncler Coats but he said he shrunk down to the size of about 12 inches or something ridiculous like that. It was really errie.
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Carl Payne 4 years ago
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