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Michael Clapp

Case from Mayfield, KY dated Jan 07, 2007

Victim Details

Michael Clapp

Male

White / Caucasian

Mayfield

KY

2007-01-07

36

Michael

Clapp

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In the early morning hours of a cold January day in 2007, the life of Michael Gossum Clapp, a 36-year-old Caucasian man from Mayfield, Kentucky, came to a violent and abrupt end. He was fatally shot at a residence in Wingo, a small community in Graves County. The events of that night would unravel a story of a volatile love triangle and a claim of self-defense that would be debated in the Kentucky legal system for years to come.

The man who pulled the trigger was Michael Bushart. The shoo ...
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