Elwood North, FL, 1954 October 4

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| —-On June—26, 1951, North, a 35-year-old mortician stran=
_ gled and killed his 57-year-old friend, Mrs. Betty Al-
britton, of Lake Wales, Fla. He immediately took her
bedy to his funeral home and covered up the marks of
strangulation and the beating with mortician!s wax and
had her buried, attributing her death to a heart attack
The body was exhumed and the evidence of murder on her
body was found. Mrs, Albritton, a wealthy widown, had
recently made a will naming North as her heir. He was
electrocuted at Raiford Prison on Octe 4, 195),

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On dune—26, 1951, North, a ‘35-year-old mortician stran-=
gled and killed his 57-year-old friend s Mrs. Betty Al-
britton, of Lake Wales, Fla. He immediately took her
body to his funeral home and covered up the marks of
strangulation and the beating with mortician's wax and
had her buried, attributing her death to a heart attack,

The body was exhumed and the evidence of murder on her
body was found, Mrs, Albritton, a wealthy widown, had
recently made a will naming North as her heir. He was
electrocuted at Raiford Prison on Octe 4, 195),

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SOURCE: True Detective - Nove 1962, : / : ©

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On dune 26, 1951, North, a 35-year-old mortician atran=
gled and killed his 57-year-old friend, Mrs, Betty Al-
britton, of lake Wales, Fla, He inmediately took her

body to his funeral home and covered up the marks of
strangulation and the beating with morbician's
had her buried, attributing her death to a

The body was exhumed an:
body was found, A a wealthy widown, had
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+ Raiford Prison on Oct. , 195h.
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