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| The danger to his life feared by James Boyington turned into grisly reality when he came home from a Caribbean cruise. On Tuesday, Dec. 22, 1992a telephone call came into Floida's Pasco County Sheriff's Office from the police in Clayton County, Georgia, reporting the discovery of a 1986 Chevrolet in a motel parking lot there. The car was registered to James M. Boyington of Zephyrhills, FL, and it might have been involved in a robbery under investigation by the Clayton County police. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Cops found James Boyington body in a closet lying in a fetal position, wrists and ankles bound with gray telephone cord. Tape covered the man's mouth, apparently to keep something in place. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| When sleuths zeroed in on the suspects, Clifford Jarvis proved to be the weak link and soon began to spill his guts. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Brian Walter Kipp played assumed role of a guitar-playing rock star to the hilt even while identifying himself to cops as the victim. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Florida's Sock Murder from the pages of the true crime book Murders In The Swampland | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ...Things were a blur to Green; he could barely make out what was going on. Then he realized that one of the men was threating him with a .45-caliber handgun. Green was unaware of what followed. The last thing he recalled was reomoving his clothing and going to bed. When he woke up, about 6 a.m., the two men had left the room with all his clothing... ...The man using Boyington's identification said that he was a rock star and that Jarvis was his driver-bodyguard. He said Jarvis had been in charge of keeping up with all his identification, but he had somehhow managed to lose his picture I.D. "That's why I have no picture identification," he said. He also declared that he was supposed to play that night with the popular rock group Twisted Sister. |
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