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The Plot Thickens

Author of gruesome tales shoots father.

by Michael Betzold

posted 12/31/2009

On the night of August 21, according to police, Lisa Reardon appeared at the door of her parents' house in Dexter Township carrying a 20-gauge shotgun. She opened fire on her father, George Hicks, from a distance of seventeen feet. Her first shot missed, and he turned and ran. She pursued him into the house, continuing to fire. Pellets grazed his legs and

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