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Trial Begins for Man Charged With Killing Ex-Girlfriend

The lawyer for a 20-year-old Massachusetts man, charged with stabbing and strangling his ex-girlfriend, says his client killed the woman he loved because he took the breakup hard and was suffering from a psychotic episode. Nathaniel Fujita faces life in prison without parole if he's convicted in the 2011 death of Lauren Astley. Astley's body was found July 4, 2011, in a swamp near the couple's hometown of Wayland, Mass. Fujita has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder. Lawyers presented...Full Story
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