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DATE: Tuesday, December 31, 1996             TAG: 9612310098
SECTION: CURRENT                  PAGE: NRV-1 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 

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Evidence points to murder-suicide

Fatal gunshot wounds found on Betty Burgess and her estranged husband, Douglas Burgess, Saturday night in Pulaski County were "consistent with a murder-suicide," a state medical examiner said Monday. Betty Burgess was shot multiple times while her husband died of a single gunshot to the head. For details, see today's Virginia section.

Contractors cleared in Cassell death

A Giles County contractor and another construction company have been cleared of any wrongdoing in the death of a Pulaski County construction worker who fell to his death through the roof of Virginia Tech's Cassell Coliseum in June. For details, see today's Virginia section.

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