Ex-Wife Killed in Public
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<i> Associated Press</i>
MT. OLIVE, Miss. — A woman who had gone to mail a letter was slashed to death by her estranged husband in plain view outside the post office Wednesday, police said. A police officer chased and arrested James N. Coffield, 30, in the slaying of Lana Headley Coffield, who was attacked with a kitchen knife. Police planned to charge him with murder.
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