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Remains of suspected serial killer finally booted from US military cemetery

New York Post·Anthony Blair·about 1 month ago
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The remains of a suspected serial killer have finally been booted from a US military cemetery thanks to a new law that closed a loophole allowing them to stay there for decades. Fernando Cota’s body was removed from the Fort Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas, last week under a federal bill backed by Texas senators, signed into law by President Trump in December — and following a lengthy campaign by his victims’ families, Military.com reported . Cota was drafted into the Army in the mid-1960s and served in Vietnam before he was first convicted of attacking, bounding and raping a nurse in 1975. Fernando Cota, a Vietnam War veteran, was also a convicted rapist and alleged serial killer. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison, and while out on parole in 1984, he died by suicide after being pulled over by the police along a California highway at age 38. Police found the corpse of 21-year-old Kim Marie Dunham in the back of Cota’s van, a day after she had been reported missing.…

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