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Article: FIRST OF TWO PARTS: ; On Jan. 19, 2002, Raymond Jason Gill was shot and killed along Coal River Road; John Frye and Brad Hacker both are in jail for the killing, but Did Hacker do it?; Witnesses retract statements implicating man in murder
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
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- September 13, 2009
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Monday in the Gazette: Gills father tells his side of the story
and a look at West Virginias sentencing laws.
CANNELTON - Brad Hacker sits in Mount Olive Correctional Complex,
convicted of murdering a man he called a friend.
In 2002, the body of Raymond Jason Gill was found burned and in
pieces on a hillside along the Kanawha-Lincoln county line. Police
soon traced the murder to Hacker and John Frye.
During Hacker's trial, the prosecution told how, after driving
along Coal River Road in Hacker's Jeep Cherokee, he, Frye and Gill,
all in their early 20s, stopped to smoke marijuana. When Gill bent
over to pick up the dropped "blunt," he was shot in the back of the
head, then shot twice more.
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