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Willis says he didn’t kill teens

JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. – A man told an East Tennessee jury that the 2002 slayings of a Georgia teen couple whose bodies were found in a storage warehouse were “horrendous,” but he didn’t kill them.

Howard Hawk Willis said in an opening statement Monday that he was set up after trying to help the young newlyweds from Chickamauga, Ga., the Johnson City Press reported.

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