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Show Seek Extradition Of Murder Suspect FARMINGTON Davis County law enforcement authorities au-thorities are attempting to extradite ex-tradite an 18-year-old Philadelphia. Philadel-phia. Pa. man as a suspect in the murder of a Weber Basin Job Corps Center corpsman in September 1979. IF SUCCESSFUL in their cxtradiction attempt, the defendant de-fendant will be charged as a juvenile because of his age at the time of the alleged crime but there will be an attempt to have him certified as an adult, according to Davis County Sheriff Brant Johnson. The unidentified man is charged with second-degree murder in the death of another corpsman. Clifford Reinecke. 16 of Wichita Falls. Kan. IT HAS BEEN a very long and intensive investigation for our officers as well as the FBI." said Sheriff Johnson. . "Deputies here and law enforcement en-forcement officers all over the country have spent hundreds of man-hours questioning several sev-eral suspects before the arreM was made in Pennsylvania last week." The victim's death was first thought to be accidentia! hen the original state medical examiner's ex-aminer's autopsy report listed the death as undetermined. THE VICTIM'S body was pulled from the Weber-Da Canal in Riverdale scver.il day s after he was reported mis sing and it was suspected thai he had drowned. He had been a member of the Job Corps Center in South Weber for ah out two weeks. However, evidence gathered in subsequent weeks revealed that the death mat not have been accidental an. I the body, buried in Kansas, was exhumed and a Kansas coroner ruled that death was cause (or aided) due to a fall being struck. FURTHER STUDY indicated indi-cated that the suspect could not have died from a fall, that the injuries were caused by being struck by a heavy blow to the face which caused a fractured frac-tured jaw. nose and cheekbone. cheek-bone. The complaint alleges that the victim was first assaulted and then placed into a stream near the Job Corps Center. ' The stream later dumps inio ' the Weber-Davis Canal. |