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Historians, detectives revisit clues surrounding 1952 cold case

<p>Robert Nugent, then the Ramapo town clerk, and Charles Simpson, a New Jersey banker, were found dead in October 1952 in the woods near Sloatsburg.</p>

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Historians, detectives revisit clues surrounding 1952 cold case

<p>Robert Nugent, then the Ramapo town clerk, and Charles Simpson, a New Jersey banker, were found dead in October 1952 in the woods near Sloatsburg.</p>

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