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The Key West Citizen
Key West, Monroe County, Florida
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Miami detectives questioned and released Norman E. Buchanan, a 28-year-old escapee from Virginia, in connection with the July 7 murder of 7-year-old Judith Ann Roberts, who was kidnapped, beaten, and violated before her body was found in a Miami mangrove thicket.
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MIAMI - Miami detectives reported a man had been picked up at Gate City, Va., for questioning in the Judith Ann Roberts murder case, then was released.
Lt. Chester Eldredge of the Homicide squad identified the man as Norman E. Buchanan, 28, who escaped from the Miami stockade while serving a sentence for indecent exposure before 15 girls aged 6 to 10.
Sheriff W. C. Salyer of Scott County, Va., told officers here the man was permitted to go home "but we can pick him up again whenever you give us the word."
"The thing for us to find out is whether this man could have been in Miami on July 7," said Eldredge.
Judith Ann, 7, daughter of a Baltimore lawyer and former lady's garment worker, was found slain in a Miami vacant lot July 7.
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Baltimore official, was kidnaped from her grandparents' home where she was visiting. Her beaten, violated body was found several hours later in a mangrove thicket beside Biscayne Bay.
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Miami
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July 7
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judith ann roberts, 7, was kidnapped, beaten, violated, and slain; her body found in a mangrove thicket; buchanan questioned and released.
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Miami detectives picked up Norman E. Buchanan, 28, an escapee from Miami stockade serving time for indecent exposure, in Gate City, Va., for questioning in the murder of Judith Ann Roberts, then released him. Authorities in Virginia stated they could detain him again if needed. The investigation focuses on whether Buchanan was in Miami on July 7, when Roberts was kidnapped from her grandparents' home and her body later found slain in a vacant lot near Biscayne Bay.