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Article: Police: Cobler admits attack: Court papers say the suspect told police he went to the parsonage to rob Nancy Copin.
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- The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA)
- Article date:
- April 12, 2007
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Byline: Reed Williams and Mike Allen
Apr. 12--A man charged with killing a Franklin County minister has admitted that he went to her home to rob her and that he struck her in the face several times during an altercation, according to court papers.
Charles Vincent Cobler, 40, has been charged with first-degree murder of Nancy Copin, the 60-year-old minister of Snow Creek Christian Church. She was killed by blunt-force trauma in her home at the church's parsonage on Snow Creek Road.
Cobler told authorities Sunday that the altercation in Copin's home happened either late April 2 or early the following morning, according to Franklin County sheriff's ...