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STRANGE DEATHS

When Jimmy Knighten went missing during a noodling trip on the South Canadian River in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, (noodling is a locally popular method of fishing that involves catching a catfish by sticking your hand in its mouth) police arrested his fishing partner Larry Sanders, 53, on suspicion of murder. When they found Knighten’s body in the river 24 hours later, Sanders confessed. He admitted that he had attacked, then strangled and drowned his fishing partner,

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