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Monday, October 26, 2009
AUTHORITIES probing the murder of a US priest have arrested the church janitor, alleging he stabbed the cleric after arguing with him in the rectory.
Prosecutor Robert Bianchi said 64-year-old Jose Feliciano was charged with the murder of Father Ed Hinds, whose body was found in the rectory kitchen of St Patrick’s RC Church in Chatham, New Jersey, on Thursday. He had been stabbed 32 times with a kitchen knife.
The priest had served at the church for six years and the janitor had worked there for 17 years.
Feliciano also faces weapons charges.
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