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Beacon First: Expert links bullets found in Craigslist shooting victims

By Ed Meyer
Beacon Journal staff report

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Accused CraigsList murderer Richard Beasley returns to the courtroom after a break during his trial in the courtroom of Common Pleas Judge Lynne S. Callahan. (Paul Tople/Akron Beacon Journal)

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Prosecutors on Friday presented ballistic evidence they say establishes a strong link between bullets recovered from the bodies of two of the victims in the Craigslist murder case and shooting suspect Richard James Beasley of Akron.

Testimony by Jonathan Gardner, a firearms identification expert with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, came on the fifth day of Beasley’s capital murder trial.

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