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No bail for suspect in slaying of NU student

By John R. Ellement

 |  Globe Staff  

  June 18, 2012

For the first time today, Nicholas and Virginia Payne today saw the man who allegedly murdered their only child. Cornell Smith, who allegedly killed 22-year-old Rebecca Payne on May 20, 2008, was arraigned on first-degree murder charges in Suffolk Superior Court. Trial Magistrate Gary Wilson ordered him held without bail. Virginia Payne said it was “heart-wrenching ... to be looking at that face, the reason [my daughter] is not here.”

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