MINOT, N.D. (AP) - One of the two men convicted of killing a Minot couple more than three decades ago has an estimated release date from the North Dakota State Penitentiary.
The Minot Daily News reports Calvin Newman is expected to be released around May 16, 2019. Newman has been behind bars for slaying 66-year-old Cora Abernathy and her 75-year-old husband, Charles Abernathy, at their rural Minot home in February of 1985. The two had been shot in the head and their throats were slashed.
Newman’s accomplice in the murders, Kevin Austin, is serving a life sentence for the crime. Initially Newman refused to testify against Austin, but later changed his mind after sitting in prison with no hope of being released.
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Austin finally went on trial in 1993 and was convicted.
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Information from: Minot Daily News, http://www.minotdailynews.com
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