Incarceration Case Study

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The third and final case that leads to his final incarceration was about the 2 teenage friends. Lynn Elliot and Ragan Martin were the two teenage friends who disappeared after going hitch hiking on the roads near the beach. A boy later reported that he saw a woman screaming while she was being dragged behind a home, a few minutes later he heard 2 gunshots. Authorities closed in on Gore at his home, and then discovered that blood was dripping from his trunk. Police officers opened the trunk and found Lynn Elliot dead from the shooting incident. Gore was found in a room with Lynn’s friend Ragan. Ragan later identifies Gore and also his cousin Fred. She added that both cousins raped her and her Lynn. Both cousins were arrested in 1983. Fred kept

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