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  • Micah Moore (right), 23, is escorted into the Jackson County Courthouse Annex in Independence, Mo., on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012. He is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 27-year-old Bethany Deaton and is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/The Kansas City Star, Keith Myers)

    Man says prayer-group leader told him to kill wife

    Less than three months after he stood as a groomsman in the wedding of two friends he had known since college in Texas, Micah Moore walked into a suburban Kansas City police department and unloaded a dark secret: He had taken the woman's life at the request of her new husband, a charismatic prayer-group leader.


  • Micah Moore, 23, is shown being escorted into the Jackson County Courthouse Annex in Independence, Mo., earlier this month. His attorney has withdrawn his confession to killing Bethany Ann Deaton. A preliminary hearing planned for Wednesday was put off and the case will go to a grand jury. (The Kansas City Star via Associated Press)

    Account of Missouri killing called 'bizarre'

    An attorney for a Kansas City man charged with killing the wife of his prayer group leader said Wednesday that he made up his confession after other group members dropped him off at a police station.


  • **FILE** Jane Russell (Associated Press)

    Inside the Beltway

    Movie star Jane Russell will be part of the burgeoning cast for Troopathon 2010, a live broadcast to raise money for care packages for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.


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