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Subject: DXer/Contester Found Murdered
From: Wes Attaway <wes@prysm.net> (Wes Attaway)
Shreveport/Bossier City (LA) amateurs are in a state of shock today 
after learning that Honor Roll Dxer and contestor Floyd Teetson, 
W5MUG, and his wife Winnie, WN5YTR, were found brutally murdered last 
night.  They lived near the small town of Heflin, LA, which is 
about 20 miles east of Shreveport.  They had apparently been beaten 
to death with 2x4s, and then dumped into a small shed outside their 
house, where their throats were then slashed.  As of this writing, 
few other details are known.   Floyd and Winnie will be missed by all who 
knew them.  Floyd had been a member of several multi-op contest teams 
operating from various Caribbean DX sites .  They were planning to be 
active as ZF2FT from Little Cayman in the upcoming ARRL DX SSB contest 
with three other Shreveport-area operators.  The DXpedition (with W5AU,
N5OCD, and N5XIQ) will go forward and, if permitted, they will use Floyd's 
call, ZF2FT, in memorium.  God Bless them both.


--------- Wes Attaway  (N5WA) ---------
2048 Pepper Ridge, Shreveport, LA 71115
 Tel: 318-7973012 --- Fax: 318-7974972 
         e-mail: wes@prysm.net


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