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Visions find an 'Agatha Christie' murderer From Patrick Brozan W'ashington, Dec 16 A particularly gruesome mur- der has been uncovered in North Carolina, in circum- stances -very similar to Agatha Christie's last novel, Sleeping Murder. In the book, a -woman returns to her childhood home, where events trigger memories Iong-suppressed of the time wvhen she saw the murdered body of her mother. In the North Carolina case, Mrs Annie Perry recently started having "visions" of the time her father disappeared in April, 1944. She wvas then 10. She told the police last iweek that "on Easter morning she sawv her mother in the kitchen and the sink full of pots and pans of bloody water". . Later that day she saw her father's bodv almost naked in an unused room. During the night she heard "butchering sounds ". - The family lived on a farm, and had an outside privy. In the follouir.I wveek, when usa .n the pr.vy sle loXked doGwn tie hole and saw her father's face floating. HIer mother, Mrs WTir e Cameron, reported her husband missing and in due course o-btained a divorce, cn grounds .of desertin. When the daughter recently began to have "visions" sht --went to a psychistrist lwho sent her to- the police. They took the matter seri- ously enough to obtain a search ivarrant. She took them to tfe site of the privy, where they dug and found human bones. On Friday afterr.s^n it-e police found Mrs Camersn. She, had shot herself. leav:ing a- suicide note in which she con- fessed to the murder of her husband Visions find an 'Agatha A4t Christie -'^ murderer - .
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