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The Leaf-Chronicle from Clarksville, Tennessee • 7

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Clarksville, Tennessee
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The Search For Suf ton: Victims Yields Nothing In Tennessee MORRISTOWN, Tenn. (AP) The search for what police say are the fourth and fifth victims slain by Nicholas "Nicky" Sutton returned to North Carolina today after three hours of digging up a soybean field sW- 1-; A 1 i --w tm -V 4 tenced to life in prison with eligibility for parole in 30 years. Her body was found in the Nolichucky River on Dec. 29 after Sutton said he dumped it about three miles upstream from where investigators about 100 square yards but could got only a foot deep in most of it because the ground was so wet. North Carolina officials took Sutton back to the Haywood County Jail on Tuesday night and said the search for another bodv he claims in Tennessee yielded no bodies, dug Tuesday.

uttojuJMookjoliceJsday jwm 10 2 ni-trl --kTy'r "f00" 't, 8 farm acrossthe would resume todayrowButtenrwhoflee shared a Sutton on Monday night took offi Nolichucky River in neighboring Cocke County where he says he MmL Mkrmmf mi apartment with Large in Knox-ville, led police on April 13 to his grave on property owned by Sutton's aunt near Mount Sterling. Investigators said Sutton, who testified that he had a $100-a-day cocaine habit, claims to have killed Large in self-defense last after the two of them got into a fight over a drug dell. Sutton took police to the grave after North Carolina prosecutors signed a plea bargain agreeing to allow him tc serve the term for Large's murde? cials to a wooded area near his aunt's cabin Just east of the Tennessee-North Carolina border where he claims to have buried a TJlount County, Teiuiteen-ager, he killed in July 1978. Last month, he led police to the body of a Morris-town teen-ager buried in- the same area. Thejthree bodies police have found so far are: Dorothy Sutton, 58, a retired schoolteacher and Nicholas Sutton's grandmother, whom police said was beat to death Dec.

23 with i bunea me body of an Atlanta man he killed in December, Chief Deputy Charles Long of the Hamblen County Sheriff's Office said he believes the body is in the field but that it had been plowed under since December and Sutton had a hard time remembering exactly where he dug the grave. The search here will not resume until later this 'week when the ground is drier and a subsoiler that can plow a furrow three feet deep is brought in, Long said. He quoted Sutton as saying Tuesday that he buried the body about 20 yards from a road that runs throughstheJield between 1 and 3 a.m. but that it was covered with grass then. Police dug up AP Leserphoto Sutton Search Ends concurrently with the term for his grandmother's deuth.

Charles Almnn 4fi a Knnvville a piece of firewood. Investigators said she-adopted Nicholas when he contractor. Sutton claimed in his is accompanied by several Tennessee and-North Carolina investigators. A new search begins todayin North Carolina for a possible fifth body. Nicholas "Nicky" Sutton, (second from left) suspect in three murders in Tennessee and North Carolina, leaves the scene of an all-day search for a possible fourth body he claims he buried here last December.

Sutton was a tew weens om aiier ne was mal was ms abandoned by his mother. Though motners house wnen he walked he denied it, Sutton was convicted Dec 23 and found her dead. He tes- of her murder last month and sen- med Almon ta State Plans Nuke Drill JVMi mmm CHATTANOOGA Tenn. (AP) -Tennessee may be sending to federal agencies next week its plan, in a nuclear accident, for sheltering and evacuating residents within 10 miles of the Sequoyah reactor. Tennessee'sTlan may jrot be acted upon until the end of June, howeverThe Federal Emergency Management Agency, the lead federal agency to examine the plan, says it wants to conclude its reviews by June 30 of emergency plans submitted by states with operating nuclear reactors.

Sequoyah Unit 1 would be Tennessee's first nuclear reactor for commercial electrical production. Civil Defense officials said Tuesday the state will test its emergency preparedness in a surprise drill sometime during-June. A spokesman for Gov. Lamar Alexander said the governor will not call the drill, since his reaction to it is part of the exercise. William Pr DeBrocker Hamilton County emergency preparedness director, said he questions testing the: plan before it is federally approved.

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