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Vt. couple charged with murder of teacher

Police say plow driver confessed to plotting with his wife ‘to get a girl’

By Bill Greene and Peter Schworm

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 29, 2012

ST. JOHNSBURY, VT - Melissa Jenkins had told friends that the man who used to plow her driveway, Allen Prue, made her uncomfortable. Yet when the prep-school teacher got a call Sunday evening from Prue and his wife, saying their car had broken down near her house, she went to help. What Jenkins didn’t know, authorities said Wednesday, is that the Prues’ call was a deadly ruse.

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