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California - PC World editor slain at California home; police allege drug tie
Associated Press (excerpt) ^ | January 10, 2007

Posted on 01/10/2007 7:41:19 PM PST by HAL9000

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PITTSBURG, Calif. - A senior editor for PC World Magazine was shot to death in his home in what police described as a drug-related attack, authorities said Wednesday.

Rex Farrance, 59, the San Francisco-based magazine's senior technical editor, was shot in the chest after four masked men broke into his home in a suburb east of the city around 9 p.m. Tuesday, Pittsburg police said.

The assailants also pistol-whipped Farrance's wife, Lenore Vantosh-Farrance, 56, a registered nurse. She called 911, but the attackers fled before officers arrived.

"We have substantial reason to believe that the victim and his wife were involved in the possession and, potentially, the distribution of illegal narcotics," said Pittsburg police Inspector John Conaty, who declined to specify what type of drugs were involved.

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(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Technical; US: California
KEYWORDS: bluescreenofdeath; drugtrafficking; farrance; homocide; pcworld; sf
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To: martin_fierro

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41 posted on 10/20/2007 9:47:20 PM PDT by Kevmo (We should withdraw from Iraq — via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.))
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To: HAL9000

Probably a case of mistaken identity by stupid assassins who thought he was editor of “PCP World”....


42 posted on 10/20/2007 10:03:39 PM PDT by tracer
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To: HAL9000

Hm. Their founding editor, Andrew something, died at an early age. Another of their top people jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge, IIRC. Now this. Seems working at that magazine is hazardous to one’s health.


43 posted on 10/21/2007 12:51:43 PM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast ([Fred Thompson/Clarence Thomas 2008!])
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To: Publius6961

Im confused, this was posted in January???????????


44 posted on 10/21/2007 2:17:51 PM PDT by Clovis_Skeptic
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