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A real life Marine crime novel told by Tony Perry in a nine short paragraphs

Woman married to a deployed Marine goes missing. Marine staff sergeant (age 45) arrested in possession of a stolen assault rifle. He was last person seen with missing woman. Husband, a lance corporal, was in Afghanistan at the time. She recently filed for divorce. Second woman, who was attempting suicide at a motel, is charged ...

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Woman married to a deployed Marine goes missing. Marine staff sergeant (age 45) arrested in possession of a stolen assault rifle. He was last person seen with missing woman. Husband, a lance corporal, was in Afghanistan at the time. She recently filed for divorce. Second woman, who was attempting suicide at a motel, is charged with murder of the wife. "The relationships, if any, among Lopez, Perez, and Killgore have not been revealed by detectives working the case." 

Woman married to a deployed Marine goes missing. Marine staff sergeant (age 45) arrested in possession of a stolen assault rifle. He was last person seen with missing woman. Husband, a lance corporal, was in Afghanistan at the time. She recently filed for divorce. Second woman, who was attempting suicide at a motel, is charged with murder of the wife. "The relationships, if any, among Lopez, Perez, and Killgore have not been revealed by detectives working the case." 

All in 9 paragraphs in Tony Perry’s story.

Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military from 1991 to 2008 for the Wall Street Journal and then the Washington Post. He can be reached at ricksblogcomment@gmail.com. Twitter: @tomricks1

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