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    Husband charged with pre-meditated murder

    Posted on July 22, 2020

    Joseph E. Luther is patted down and searched just seconds after surrendering to law enforcement officers following a brief shootout at his residence on Harrison Blue Road. Luther is accused of shooting and killing his wife of 14 years, Heather, and her co-worker Kirk Jansky after forcing a vehicle crash on Jefferson Street Friday afternoon.

    A double-murder suspect who allegedly ran his estranged wife’s vehicle off the road before shooting her and a co-worker to death was taken into custody unharmed after a brief standoff with law enforcement officers at his home on Harrison Blue Road Friday afternoon, July 17.

    Joseph E. Luther, 33, was booked at the Taylor County Jail on two counts of pre-meditated first-degree murder and attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, as well as a weapons offense and fleeing officers.

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