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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/br...nd-murder-indictment-20120307,0,2713140.story
Seventeen years after a Hallandale Beach woman disappeared during a bitter child custody battle, a grand jury has indicted her ex-husband for first-degree murder, according to Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez-Rundle.
Clifford Friend, 56, was the prime suspect in the murder of his ex-wife, Lynne Friend, then 35, but several efforts to prove it had faltered over the years, according to Ben Allen, the victim's father. Allen, 80, lives in Granbury, Texas, and last heard from South Florida authorities nearly two years ago.
"That was the fourth time they said, 'We got him, we got him,'" a skeptical Allen said. "It's been frustrating, to say the least."
This indictment lifted his spirits.
"This is great news," Allen said. "It really is."
His daughter disappeared on Aug. 28, 1994, not long after winning a contentious child custody battle with her ex-husband over their son, Christian, then 5. She had planned to move out of Florida with her fiance, Ed O'Dell. Clifford Friend fought the move and had vowed to stop it, according to witnesses and investigative records.
On the night she vanished, U.S. Customs Service agents saw Clifford Friend and a companion, Allan Gold, throw something from a motorboat into the Atlantic Ocean a few miles off Miami Beach. Lynne Friend's body was never recovered, according to Fernandez-Rundle.
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Seventeen years after a Hallandale Beach woman disappeared during a bitter child custody battle, a grand jury has indicted her ex-husband for first-degree murder, according to Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez-Rundle.
Clifford Friend, 56, was the prime suspect in the murder of his ex-wife, Lynne Friend, then 35, but several efforts to prove it had faltered over the years, according to Ben Allen, the victim's father. Allen, 80, lives in Granbury, Texas, and last heard from South Florida authorities nearly two years ago.
"That was the fourth time they said, 'We got him, we got him,'" a skeptical Allen said. "It's been frustrating, to say the least."
This indictment lifted his spirits.
"This is great news," Allen said. "It really is."
His daughter disappeared on Aug. 28, 1994, not long after winning a contentious child custody battle with her ex-husband over their son, Christian, then 5. She had planned to move out of Florida with her fiance, Ed O'Dell. Clifford Friend fought the move and had vowed to stop it, according to witnesses and investigative records.
On the night she vanished, U.S. Customs Service agents saw Clifford Friend and a companion, Allan Gold, throw something from a motorboat into the Atlantic Ocean a few miles off Miami Beach. Lynne Friend's body was never recovered, according to Fernandez-Rundle.
More at link....