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Recorded detective interviews with a Stow teenager charged with aggravated murder and other crimes in the Craigslist killings were heard in a Summit County courtroom Thursday for the first time since his arrest last November.
Brogan Rafferty, who was 16 at the time of the interviews, told a sheriff’s detective that two holes were dug on Noble County land at the urging of alleged accomplice Richard Beasley — one for a Virginia man who was shot to death on Oct. 23, another for a South Carolina man who escaped with a gunshot wound to the elbow.
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