Texas father charged with murder in death of Indian orphan
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January 12, 2018
DALLAS (AP) — The father of a 3-year-old girl whose body was found in a culvert near their suburban Dallas home about a year after she was adopted from an Indian orphanage was indicted Friday on capital murder.
Wesley Mathews, 37, was also charged in Dallas County with abandoning a child and tampering with evidence. Prosecutors said the capital murder charge, which could carry the death penalty, was filed after an autopsy determined his daughter died from "homicidal violence."
The child, Sherin Mathews, disappeared in early October, sparking a broad search involving numerous law enforcement ag...
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