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Mary Rearden

Case from Opelika, AL dated Sep 04, 2000

Victim Details

Mary Rearden

Female

White / Caucasian

Opelika

AL

2000-09-04

yes

$10,000

75

Mary

Rearden

07/04/2026

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On a quiet Labor Day morning in Opelika, Alabama, a daughter's concern for her mother led to the grim discovery of a violent crime that would leave a family shattered and a community on edge. On September 4, 2000, after being unable to reach her mother by phone, Charlotte Powell went to the home of 75-year-old Mary Elece Rice Rearden on 2nd Avenue. What she found there was a scene of unimaginable horror. Her mother, a woman who had spent the weekend working at her daughter's store and enjoying t ...
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