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Show Husband Admits ring ITik OKLAHOMA CITY, March 2 (111!) Roger W. Cunningham, eccentric' ec-centric' member of a prominent Oklahoma City family, confessed today that he strangled his beautiful beau-tiful socially prominent wife to death last March 6. He directed a sheriff's party to her body which he had buried in a freshly dug sewage ditch. The body was fouiic: face up by four workmen after they had dug through several feet of soft earth in a sewage ditch which had been filled in on March 7, the clay after the woman disappeared from her suburban home. Cunningham, according to County Prosecutor Lewis Morris, said he had strangled her "I don't know why" and had carried car-ried licr body to the vacant lot through which the sewer ran and "kicked it into the ditch." "I must have been crazy," lie told Morris after more than two hours of questioning. "It was a hell of a thing to do." Morris revealed that Cunningham Cunning-ham twice had been held for examination ex-amination at a hospital for the insane in-sane at Norman, Okla. Cunningham's confession and discovery of the body ended a search of a week's duration. |