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Murderer:
Walter Correll
Execution Date: January 4, 1996
Jurisdiction: Franklin County
Victim: Charles
Bousman
With two accomplices, Correll abducted Bousman from
Roanoke, repeatedly kicked him in the face and stabbed
him to death in Franklin County.
Murderer: Richard Townes
Execution Date: January 23, 1996
Jurisdiction: City of Virginia Beach
Victim: Virginia
Goebel
Townes shot Goebel, a Virginia Beach
convenience store clerk, in the head during an April
14, 1985 robbery. He got $186.13 from the cash register.
He shot her at point blank range with a .45 caliber
weapon to prevent her from possibly identifying him
later. Townes had 29 prior felony convictions including
a 1976 incident where he held a taxi driver at gunpoint
for six hours in a hostage situation before shooting
him four times in the back.
Murderer: Joseph Savino
Execution Date: July 17, 1996
Jurisdiction: Bedford County
Victim:
Thomas
McWaters
Savino beat his 64-year-old male lover McWaters to death
with a hammer in Bedford County after having been recently
released on parole from custody in New York.
Murderer: Ronald Bennett
Execution Date: November 21, 1996
Jurisdiction: Chesterfield County
Victim:
Anne
Keller Vaden
Bennett battered, stabbed and strangled Vaden at the
apartment complex where he worked in Chesterfield County.
Murderer: Gregory Beaver
Execution Date: December 3, 1996
Jurisdiction: City of Richmond
Victim:
Leo Whitt, Trooper, Virginia State Police
Gregory Warren Beaver, 30, escaped
from a Maryland prison-type drug treatment facility.
He had been placed there after 10 felony convictions.
He stole a car and then drove to his stepfather's restaurant,
where he assaulted and robbed him. He then proceeded
down interstate 95 heading towards Florida, picking
up a hitchhiker.
He was pulled over for a routine traffic
stop by Virginia state trooper Leo Whitt on April 12,
1985. Beaver shot Whitt twice, once in the neck and
then between the eyes. He later bragged to his companion
that he got away with killing a police officer.
Murderer: Larry Stout
Execution Date: December 10, 1996
Jurisdiction: Augusta County
Victim: Jacqueline
Kooshian
Larry Stout, 33, murdered Jacqueline Kooshian on February
17, 1987 after robbing her of $1,200 at her dry cleaning
store in Staunton. She was stabbed five inches deep
in her throat. Her jugular vein, trachea, and larynx
were severed and she bled to death shortly afterwards.
Murderer: Lem Tuggle
Execution Date: December 12, 1996
Jurisdiction: Smyth County
In 1983 in Smyth County, VA, Jessie
Havens, 52, was raped and murdered by Lem Tuggle after
he met her at a dance at an American Legion Hall. He
had been paroled just four months earlier for the 1971
strangulation of 17-year-old Shirley Brickey.
Tuggle was also one of six death row
inmates who grabbed 13 hostages and bluffed their way
out of the Mecklenburg Correctional Center in Boydton,
Va., with a fake bomb May 31, 1984.
Murderer:
Ronald Hoke
Execution Date: December 16, 1996
Jurisdiction: City of Petersburg
Victim:
Virginia
Stell
Victim Virginia Stell was abducted, raped, robbed and
fatally stabbed by Hoke in Petersburg.
Murderer: Michael George
Execution Date: February 6, 1997
Jurisdiction: Prince William County
Victim:
Alexander
Sztanko
Victim Alexander Sztanko, a boy 15 years of age, was
abducted while riding his dirt bike in the woods near
his new home in Prince William County. George, who had
been recently released from prison after serving crime
for a similar 1982 murder, proceeded to sexually assault
his victim, shocking him in the genital area with a
stun gun and finally shooting him in the head.
Murderer: Coleman Gray
Execution Date: February 26, 1997
Jurisdiction: City of Suffolk
Victim:
Richard
McClelland
Gray fatally shot McClelland, a Suffolk area grocery
store manager after abducting him at gunpoint, going
to his store and stealing $12,000.
Murderer: Roy Bruce Smith
Execution Date: July 17, 1997
Jurisdiction: Prince William County
Victim: Sgt.
John Conner , Manassas Police Dept.
Smith murdered the Manassas
police officer with shots from an assault rifle and
handgun during standoff at his home on July 24, 1988.
Murderer: Joseph O'Dell
Execution Date: July 23, 1997
Jurisdiction: City of Virginia Beach
On February 5, 1985, Schartner was
raped and bludgeoned to death by O'Dell outside night
club in Virginia Beach. Her body was then dumped in
a vacant lot. Ten years previously, a Florida woman
had narrowly escaped meeting a similar fate at the hands
of O'Dell. She testified for the prosecution at the
Schartner trial in Virginia that O'Dell had trapped
her in the back of a car and said, 'do you know what
necrophilia is? I'm going to have sex with you whether
you're alive or dead'.
Although O'Dell managed to get considerable
attention and support from some citizens of Italy who
believed him to be wrongfully convicted, the evidence
presented at trial indicated conclusively that O'Dell
was responsible for Schartner's murder. The victim's
blood type was found on the seat of O'Dell's car. Tire
tread marks that were unique to O'Dell's vehicle were
found at the scene where the body was dumped, seminal
fluids and pubic hairs found in and on the victim's
body matched that of O'Dell.
O'Dell had a criminal record with 17 felony convictions
stretching back to 1958.
Murderer: Carlton Pope
Execution Date: August 19, 1997
Jurisdiction: City of Portsmouth
Victim: Cynthia
Gray
The victim was from Portsmouth. She
was shot in the head by the defendant, along with her
sister during a 1986 robbery. The sister survived to
testify against Pope at his capital murder trial.
Murderer: Mario Murphy
Execution Date: September 17, 1997
Jurisdiction: City of Virginia Beach
Victim: James
Radcliff
Mexican hit man Mario Benjamin Murphy,
25, confessed to carrying out a contract murder on James
Radcliff at the behest of Radcliff's wife and her boyfriend.
They were hoping to collect on a $100,000 insurance
policy.
Murphy was to be paid $5,000 for the hit, which he carried
out in Virginia Beach in 1991, using a steel pipe to
bash in the head of James Radcliff. Murphy also recruited
other people for the assignment. In all six people were
were implicated in the plot and all the others aside
from Murphy are serving life sentences.
Murderer: Dawud Mu'min
Execution Date: November 17, 1997
Jurisdiction: Fairfax County
Victim:
Gladys
Nopwasky
In 1988 Mu'min was serving a 48 year prison sentence
for a 1973 murder conviction. He was incarcerated
at the Haymarket Correctional Unit and was assigned
to a work crew detail with the Virginia Department
of Transportation. During his lunch break, Mu'Min
broke from the group and escaped over a perimeter
fence. He proceeded to the Ashdale Plaza shopping
center with a railroad spike that he had acquired
and sharpened at the work site.
There he encountered Gladys Nopwasky
in the carpet and flooring store which she owned in
Ashdale Plaza. Mu'Min knocked her to the floor, beat
and stabbed her to death with the railroad spike,
then stole $4 from the cash register.
Murderer: Michael Satcher
Execution Date: December 9, 1997
Jurisdiction: Arlington County
Satcher raped, robbed and killed Borghesani
on Arlington area bike path as she was walking towards
the Rosslyn Metro station to attend a party in the early
evening of March 31, 1990. She was badly beaten and
stabbed 21 times. Her body was found in a stairwell
of the parking garage at the Air Force Association building
nearby the following day. Satcher was arrested several
months later after trying to attack other women along
the trails in the same area.
Murderer:
Thomas Beavers
Execution Date: December 11, 1997
Jurisdiction: Hampton City
Victim:
Marguerite
Lowery
On May 1st, 1990, Beavers raped, then killed his 61-year-old
Hampton neighbor by holding a pillow over her face during
a robbery of her home. He was not arrested until a year
after this murder, during which time he raped two other
neighborhood women in seperate incidents.
Murderer: Tony Mackall
Execution Date: February 10, 1998
Jurisdiction: Prince William County
Victim:
Mary
Elizabeth Dahn
On December 9, 1986, Tony Mackall
shot Dahn who was working the cashier booth at the Riverview
Shell she owned along Route 123 in Prince William County.
Dahn was shot in front of her 5 year old daughter, who
was left unharmed. Mackall then fled the scene and went
to a nearby apartment complex looking to steal a car
to escape the area. He spotted Washington Times sports
reporter Michael Keating exiting his car in front of
a townhouse and shot him twice as he begged for mercy.
Miraculously Keating survived his wounds, playing dead
as Mackall left to steal the car. Mackall was on furlough
from the DC Dept. of Corrections at the time.
Murderer: Douglas Buchanan
Jr.
Execution Date: March 18, 1998
Jurisdiction: Amherst County
Victims:
Douglas Buchanan Sr.
Donald Patterson
Joel Jerry Patterson
Geraldine Patterson Buchanan
Douglas Buchanan Jr. stabbed and shot to death four
members of his family in Amherst County. He committed
the crimes due to feeling ostracized after his mother
passed away from cancer and his father then married
Geraldine Buchanan. Her sons, Donald and Joel Jerry,
aged 10 and 13, also lived in the house and were victims
of the September, 1987 rampage.
Murderer: Ronald Watkins
Execution Date: March 25, 1998
Jurisdiction: Danville City
Victims:
William
McCauley
Watkins, whose brother Johnny was executed for a seperate
crime in 1994, was put to death for murdering William
McCauley, the owner of a small packaging and shipping
store in Danville, Va., on May 26, 1988. Watkins killed
Mr. McCauley after robbing him because Mr. McCauley
could identify him.''
McCauley was found face down
on the floor of his store by his father. The victim's
throat had been cut three times, and he had been stabbed
a number of times in the back.
Watkins was placed earlier at the scene by a witness.
On an audio tape recorded from a police wire on his girlfriend,
he admitted he had killed McCauley because the store owner
knew him and could identify him as the robber.
Murderer: Angel Breard
Execution Date: April 14, 1998
Jurisdiction: Arlington County
Victim:
Ruth
Dickie
Angel Francisco Breard, 32, was executed for the murder
and attempted rape of Ruth Dickie, 39, of Arlington
County in 1992. Breard confessed on the witness stand
to his crime, admitting he stabbed Dickie five times.
He claimed a "satanic curse" compelled him
to kill her.
Murderer: Dennis Eaton
Execution Date: June 18, 1998
Jurisdiction: Rockbridge County
Victim: Jerry
Hines - Trooper, Virginia State Police
Eaton murdered this Virginia state trooper who pulled
him over along Interstate 81 southbound at the Maury
River Bridge near Lexington as well as three others
in a spree on February 20, 1989.
Murderer: Danny King
Execution Date: July 23, 1998
Jurisdiction: Roanoke County
On Oct. 11, 1990, King and his former
wife, Becky Smith, posed as potential home buyers to
lure Ms. Rogers to a vacant Roanoke County home.
According to court records, Ms.
Smith said she went out for a smoke while Ms. Rogers and
King toured the house. She went back inside, she said,
and saw King standing over the 55-year-old woman's battered
and bloodied body with a knife in his hand.
Fearful of King and following his orders, Ms. Smith said,
she later pawned Ms. Rogers' wedding ring and forged some
checks stolen from her purse. Because police traced those
items to her, Ms. Smith was 1st charged with the killing.
But during her trial, King confessed to the slaying in
a statement to Ms. Smith's lawyer.
Murderer: Lance Chandler
Execution Date: August 20, 1998
Jurisdiction: Halifax County
Victim:
William
Dix
Lance Chandler, 25, who had previously accumulated a
criminal record that included disorderly conduct, robbery,
use of a firearm, breaking and entering, drunkenness,
assault on a police officer, was executed for the robbery
and murder of William Dix, 33, in 1993.
Chandler robbed Dix of cash at the
convenience store where he worked in Halifax County.
Meanwhile, two partners took beer in the back of the
store. Chandler stuck the gun in Dix face and pulled
the trigger while yelling, "Boom." The gun
did not go off so Chandler pulled the trigger again,
which discharged the weapon. Court testimony indicated
Chandler bragged he wanted to know how it would feel
to kill someone. He also indicated he would wear the
spent cartridge around his neck as a trophy.
Murderer: Johnile DuBois
Execution Date: August 31, 1998
Jurisdiction: Portsmouth
DuBois and three teen-age accomplices
robbed the In-A-Hurry store in Portsmouth on November
20, 1991. Store employee Philip C. Council, 39, who
suffered from mental disabilities because of a car accident,
was beaten by the robbers when he did not open a cash
register quickly enough. DuBois, the only robber who
was armed, then fatally shot Council in the chest.
Murderer: Kenneth Stewart
Jr.
Execution Date: September 23, 1998
Jurisdiction: Bedford County
On May 12, 1991, Kenneth Stewart Jr.
shot his estranged wife and 5-month-old son twice in
the head with a .25 caliber pistol at their Huddleston
home in Bedford County. He then placed the dead baby
in his dead mother's arms. Their bodies were found later
that day by Cynthia Stewart's mother.
Murderer: Dwayne Wright
Execution Date: October 14, 1998
Jurisdiction: Arlington County
Wright spotted Tekle on a road near
her home in Annandale on October 13, 1989 and followed
her home with the intent of raping Tekle, a mother of
three children. Tekle was forced to undress at gunpoint
and then fled from Wright towards her apartment door.
She was fatally shot in the back with a .38 caliber
bullet fired by Wright. Around that same time period,
17 year old Wright also killed a Prince George's County,
Maryland man in a seperate incident. He was sentenced
to two life terms for the Maryland homicide and was
sentenced to death for the murder of Tekle.
Murderer: Ronald Fitzgerald
Execution Date: October 21, 1998
Jurisdiction: Pittsylvania County
Victims:
Coy White
Hugh Morrison
In January, 1993 Fitzgerald went on a violent crime
spree in which he killed an acquaintance, Coy White
and a taxi driver, Hugh Morrison. He also robbed both
men. He also broke into White's house and kidnapped
a thirteen year old girl and raped her. He also raped
another woman, 18, in a motel room while her two children
were nearby. He then hitched a ride to the courthouse
in Chatham to turn himself in to authorities, unsuccessfully
trying to commit suicide with his pistol in front of
the building.
Murderer: Kenneth Wilson
Execution Date: November 17, 1998
Jurisdiction: City of Newport News
Armed with a knife, Wilson entered
the home of his neighbor, Jacqueline M. Stephens, early
on the morning of March 27, 1993. Wilson knew Ms. Stephens
because his cousin was her boyfriend.
Wilson ordered Ms. Stephens, 31, her
12-year-old daughter and the daughter's 14-year-old
friend to disrobe. He blindfolded the girls and tied
them to a bed in the daughter's room.
Over several hours Wilson threatened the girls and Ms.
Stephens. On one visit to the girls' room he cut each
of them. He then went into Ms. Stephens' room, and the
girls heard her scream as Wilson demanded her car keys.
A neighbor who heard the commotion
called police when he saw Wilson drive off in Ms. Stephens'
car. Police found Ms. Stephens tied to the bed posts,
her body covered with blood. She had been stabbed more
than 10 times. The friend had a stab wound on her neck
while the daughter was stabbed close to the carotid
artery and jugular vein. Her vocal cord nerve was severed.
Murderer: Kevin Cardwell
Execution Date: December 3, 1998
Jurisdiction: City of Richmond
Victim: Anthony
Brown
Cardwell was convicted in the 1991 murder, robbery and
abduction of 15 year old illegal drug courier Anthony
Brown of Hempstead, New York. Cardwell and several friends
learned that Brown was arriving at a Richmond bus station
with drugs. They met him and took his luggage.
When they discovered
no drugs in the bags, a friend of Cardwell's lured Brown
to Cardwell's apartment, where they found cocaine taped
to Brown's leg. The men then took Brown into the woods,
where Cardwell killed him.
Murderer: Mark Sheppard -
Execution Date: January 20, 1999
Jurisdiction: Chesterfield County
Mark Arlo Sheppard, 27, was convicted
along with an accomplice of the gangland-style murders
of Richard and Rebecca Rosenbluth, both found shot in
the head at close range in their home in the Richmond,
Virginia suburbs just after Thanksgiving 1993.
According to prosecutors, Sheppard
and another drug dealer, Andre Graham, shot the Rosenbluth
couple in late November 1993 after they apparently could
not pay for a cocaine deal.
Murderer: Tony Fry
Execution Date: February 4, 1999
Jurisdiction: Chesterfield County
On February 21, 1994 Tony Fry and his
accomplice, 17-year-old Bradford Hinson, used a .22
caliber weapon to shoot and kill Leland Jacobs, a Chesterfield
County 42-year-old car salesman. Fry had lured Jacobs
from his Ford dealership under the ruse that Fry's grandmother
wanted to buy a 1994 Ford Explorer.
Leland Jacobs was robbed, shot eleven
times, tied to the rear bumper of the Explorer with
his necktie and dragged down a dirt road 777 feet into
the woods while still alive. About 15 minutes after
the murder, a police officer who had a warrant for Fry's
arrest for another crime had a tip that Fry frequented
the area where Jacobs was killed and came upon Fry and
Hinson as they were leaving the scene of the murder.
Fry confessed when he was arrested.
Murderer: George Quesinberry
Execution Date: March 9, 1999
Jurisdiction: Chesterfield County
Victim:
Thomas
Haynes
Quesinberry and a friend decided to burglarize the Tri-City
Electrical Supply Company warehouse in Chesterfield
County on September 24, 1989. During the middle of the
burglary, their actions were discovered by Thomas Haynes,
who was a night watchman at the complex. Victim was
chased through the building and shot him twice in the
back and had his skull fractured with a hard blow to
the head by Quesinberry.
Murderer: David Lee Fisher
Execution Date: March 25, 1999
Jurisdiction: Bedford County
Victim:
David
Wilkey
Fisher hired a man to kill the teenage victim Wilkey
during a 1983 hunting trip as part of an insurance scam.
The gunman in the case testified that after the shooting,
Fisher put his hand into the wound to make the young
man's heart stop. The gunman was sentenced to life in
prison.
Murderer: Carl Chichester
Execution Date: April 13, 1999
Jurisdiction: Prince William County.
Timothy Rigney was managing a Manassas
pizza shop, when two armed, masked men entered the store
late at night on August 16, 1991 and demanded cash.
Both pointed their semiautomatic
guns at the Little Caesars employee and told him to open
the second register. Rigney tried to open the drawer,
but when he couldn't, witnesses say the man on the other
side of the counter, the taller man, shot Rigney in the
chest, killing the teen with a single bullet.
The 2 masked men fled the restaurant on foot with $100
in cash. Months later, the gunman was identified as 28-year-old
Carl Hamilton Chichester, a Washington, D.C., resident
who had been staying at the Red Roof Inn in Manassas.
In 1992, Chichester was charged with capital murder, and
in 1993, convicted by a Prince William County jury and
sentenced to death.
Murderer: Arthur Jenkins
Execution Date: April 20, 1999
Jurisdiction: Washington County
Victims:
Floyd
Jenkins
Lee Brinklow
Jenkins, 29, was convicted of capital
murder in the Oct. 12, 1990, slayings of his uncle,
Floyd Jenkins, 72, and Lee H. Brinklow, 69. According
to a court summary of the case, Arthur Jenkins and a
younger brother,Kevin Frame, had been drinking when
they went to a house shared by Jenkins' uncle and Brinklow.
An argument ensued,
and the younger Jenkins took a .22-caliber rifle from
a bedroom and shot his uncle and Brinklow, then repeatedly
stabbed the uncle. Jenkins then broke into his aunt's
bedroom and stole money and other items.
Murderer: Eric Payne
Execution Date: April 28, 1999
Jurisdiction: Hanover County
Victims:
Sally Fazio
Ruth Parham
Payne, 26, killed Ruth Parham, 61, and Sally Fazio,
57, in June 1997, about five months after he finished
serving a six-year prison term for possession of LSD.
He also attacked Ridley Fleck and her 8-year-old son,
Dean. Both suffered extensive head wounds, but survived.
Payne used a hammer to commit all crimes during his
six day spree across Hanover County.
Murderer: Ronald Yeatts
Execution Date: April 29, 1999
Jurisdiction: Pittsylvania County
Yeatts had previously done contracting
work in the home of the victim. He decided to rob it
with an accomplice on September 23, 1989.
After gaining entry to Dodson's Pittsylvania
County home on the pretense of having experienced problems
with his automobile, Yeatts stabbed Dodson and slit
her throat while the accomplice searched her bedroom
for money. Finding none, the accomplice stole Dodson's
pocketbook and fled with Yeatts.
Dodson's body was discovered on the
floor of her kitchen later that evening.
Murderer: Thomas Strickler
Execution Date: July 21, 1999
Jurisdiction: Augusta County
Victim:
Leann
Whitlock
On January 5, 1989, Strickler and an accomplice abducted
JMU student Whitlock from the Harrisonburg Wal-Mart
parking lot. Whitlock was beaten to death with a 69
pound rock. Her body was found in Augusta County eight
days after she had been abducted.
Murderer: Marlon Williams
Execution Date: August 17, 1999
Jurisdiction: City of Chesapeake
Victim: Helen
Bedsole
Marlon DeWayne Williams, 26, killed
Helen Bedsole in a murder-for-hire arranged by her estranged
husband. Williams was paid $4,000 for the hit, which
occurred in Chesapeake on November 9, 1993. Her estranged
husband, Clark Bedsole, was sentenced to life imprisonment
for his part in the crime.
Murderer: Everett
Mueller
Execution Date: September 16, 1999
Jurisdiction: Chesterfield County
Victim:
Charity
Powers
Mueller abducted, raped and killed Powers, a 10-year-old
girl in Chesterfield County on October 5, 1990. Powers
was dropped off at a skating rink on the evening of
October 4th by her mother, with the understanding that
a family friend would be picking her up later that evening.
Unfortunately, the friend fell asleep and did not show
up at the scheduled time to get the young girl. She
was sitting on a curb outside the closed rink at about
12:50 am the following morning by a witness who knew
her from elsewhere. The witness also saw a man he was
able to identify as Everett Mueller standing next to
her in front of a Hardees restaurant.
Mueller had gained the attention of police for having
cruised the Hardees parking lot numerous times in his
wood-sided station wagon. Unkempt in his appearance,
the 30 year old man later admitted to police that he
had approached Charity Powers believing her to be aged
18 or 19 and soliciting for sexual activity. He later
admitted to taking Powers away from the scene to a location
near his house where he raped her. Police found her
body approximately 900 feet from his house as well as
a knife believed to be the murder weapon.
Murderer: Jason Joseph
Execution Date: October 16, 1999
Jurisdiction: City of Portsmouth
Joseph was convicted of the October
26, 1992 robbery and murder of Jeffrey Anderson, 22,
who worked at a Subway restaurant in Portsmouth. An
accomplice gave Joseph his 45-caliber pistol. The two
men then entered the sub shop and Joseph ordered a sandwich.
After the sandwich was made,
Joseph took the gun out of his pocket and ordered Anderson
to open the cash register and give him the money. Anderson
complied and Joseph ordered him to get down on the floor
behind the counter. Joseph reached over the counter and
shot Anderson in the back. Prosecutors told jurors at
a sentencing hearing that Joseph had committed other crimes,
including the armed robbery and abduction of 2 convenience
store clerks.
Murderer: Thomas Royal, Jr.
Execution Date: November 9, 1999
Jurisdiction: Hampton City
Thomas Lee Royal was sentenced to death
for the February 21, 1994 capital murder of police officer
Kenneth Wallace. Kenneth was killed as part of a "hit
list" of law enforcement officials.
Wallace was shot twice in the head
while patrolling the Wythe area of Hampton on Feb. 21,
1994. The prosecutor on the alleged hit list had spent
the previous 2 1/2 years working with a joint federal-state
drug-prosecution task force serving several Virginia
cities. She was pursuing state drug trafficking charges
against Sammie Lee Royal, 22, the brother of Thomas
Lee Royal.
When Royal discovered Wallace in the
patrol car instead of the officer he intended to kill,
he shot Wallace. Royal and another man not involved
in the Wallace shooting were also charged with a 1991
murder in Hampton.
Murderer: Andre Graham
Execution Date: December 9, 1999
Jurisdiction: City of Richmond
Graham was sentenced to die for the
shotgun murder of Sheryl L. Stack, 20 on October 8,
1993. Sheryl was a waitress at a Steak & Ale and
was shot in the parking lot for her car. She died two
days later.
Graham also shot a 23-year-old man,
who survived his injuries but lost an eye and most of
the use of one arm and leg and suffers from brain damage.
Graham was convicted of a maiming charge in this case.
He was coconspirators with Mark Sheppard in this case
as well as the murders of Richard and Rebecca Rosenbluth,
a crime for which Sheppard was executed while Graham
was sentenced to life plus 23 years.
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