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Fighter, Wife Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide

Levens had been banned from mixed martial arts circuit for pain killer

By Mary Papenfuss, Newser Staff

Posted Dec 19, 2008 5:47 AM CST

(Newser) – An extreme martial arts fighter known as "the executioner" and his wife have been found dead in their California home in what police are investigating as a murder-suicide, reports the Los Angeles Times. A gun was found next to the body of Justin Levens,... Read full story »

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