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  BUDOCK POLICE DEPARTMENT

  PRESS RELEASE

  INCIDENT: Homicide Investigation

  DATE/TIME: Monday April 30th, 2001 17:45 hours

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  LOCATION: 496 Winstead Avenue, Burdock South Dakota, 57735

  SUSPECT: Officer Andrew Whitman

  LEAD INVESTIGATOR: Officer Theresa Mayfield

  DETAILS:

  The Burdock Police Department is currently investigating the murder of one of our own, Nicolas Petulo, age 24. He was found in the upstairs office in the home of the recently deceased Mr. Donald Francis and his wife Angeline. A neighbor reported two gunshots being heard from the house and officers were quickly dispatched. When officers arrived on the site, a witness claimed to have seen the suspect in a silver Honda Accord driving North on St. Vincent. We have no reason to believe the deaths of Mr. Petulo and the Francis family are related, but investigations are still underway…