By Gary L. Smith
GateHouse Media Illinois
HENNEPIN A Putnam County man accused of murdering a sister-in-law and burying her in a shallow grave nearly two years ago had been using her as a traveling bank to help support a gambling habit that had driven him into debt, prosecutors alleged Monday.
That contention, coming at a pre-trial hearing, provided the clearest indication yet of the motive that prosecutors hope to establish when Clifford Andersen Jr. of Standard goes on trial July 9 on charges of murdering and concealing the homicidal death of Deborah Dewey of Ladd.
Andersen, 68, is accused of beating Dewey to death on Aug. 22, 2016, in a Standard home to which he had acce…
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