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The Daily Alaska Empire
Juneau, Juneau County, Alaska
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In Centralia, Washington, authorities interrogate 63-year-old Roscoe Lee Hayton, who confessed to choking his third wife Ellen Buckingham Coyle Hayton to death on Jan. 8 and burying her in Skagit County. They remain skeptical of his claim that another woman disposed of his second wife during a 1945 boat ride from Olympia.
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CENTRALIA, Wash., Jan. 24.—(AP)—Grilling of Roscoe Lee Hayton, balding confessed slayer of his third wife, was continued today by authorities openly skeptical of the 63-year-old retired merchant's story that another woman "got rid" of his second wife on an Olympia boat ride in 1945.
After the woman confronted Hayton in a dramatic jail cell meeting last night, Kitsap County Prosecutor James Munro said he was convinced she "had been completely exonerated." She had not been held.
"Roscoe, for the love of God, tell them the truth and get it off your mind," the woman cried hysterically as she entered Hayton's cell.
Hayton buried his face in his hands and did not reply.
Questioning of the gaunt, graying Seattle man almost continuously throughout the day failed to change his claim made earlier in a signed statement that the woman took his second wife for a boat ride from which the wife failed to return.
Hayton was brought here yesterday after leading officers Thursday to the shallow grave in Skagit County where the body of his third wife, Mrs. Ellen Buckingham Coyle Hayton, 46, was buried.
Sheriff's Detective Chief Adam Lyskoski reported that Hayton admitted in a signed statement he had choked her to death in their Seattle home Jan. 8.
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Centralia, Washington; Seattle; Skagit County; Olympia
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Jan. 24; 1945; Jan. 8
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Roscoe Lee Hayton, a 63-year-old retired merchant from Seattle, confesses to choking his third wife Ellen to death in their Seattle home on Jan. 8 and burying her in Skagit County. Authorities question his claim that another woman took his second wife on a fatal boat ride from Olympia in 1945, remaining skeptical after the woman's confrontation.