
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, September 8, 1993                   TAG: 9309080358
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: HARRISONBURG                                LENGTH: Short

MOTHER SLAIN; DAUGHTERS, ONE'S BOYFRIEND CHARGED

Two adolescent sisters and the younger one's 14-year-old boyfriend, all charged in the slaying of the girls' mother, appeared in court Tuesday, said Bruce Morris, Rockingham County commonwealth's attorney.

Marilyn Fries, 35, was killed by knife wounds in the neck about midnight Friday, police said. Authorities found her body in the home the woman shared with her 12- and 13-year-old daughters.

Fries, who was a nurse at Rockingham Memorial Hospital, divorced their father about two years ago, Rockingham County Sheriff Glenn Weatherholtz said.

The slaying occurred hours before the girls were to report to Randolph-Macon Academy, a military school in Front Royal. "That apparently sparked the dispute," he said. The girls apparently were being sent to the academy for disciplinary reasons, he said.

The three were charged as juveniles with first-degree murder on Sunday.

"It's one of the most vicious stabbing deaths I've ever seen," said Weatherholtz. "There's nothing that can prepare you for something like this."

- Associated Press

by CNB