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Research Paper On Captain Torres
On June 9, 1999, in a small town in Texas Captain Torres was murder by the town’s barber, while getting a shave.Around 3 in the afternoon Captain Torres came into the town local barbershop to get a shave. While the Captain was getting his beard shave, suddenly the barber uses his razor and cut Captain Torres’ throat. The barber is so skilled that the Captain did not make any sudden in-pain moans, so no one would have pinpointed that a man was just murder. However, a customer came into the shop hoping for a haircut, but came in seeing a dead Captain Torres sitting on the barber chair and the barber holding a razor cover with blood, said the witness. Immediately the witness went to the authorities, the barber was immediately arrested. As he was

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