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Man held in priest’s slaying found dead

A man accused of killing a Roman Catholic priest and taking the victim’s car on a family vacation to Walt Disney World was found dead early yesterday in a prison cell with a sheet wrapped around his neck. Jeremy Wayne Manieri, 33, was charged with shooting the Rev. Ed Everitt of Hammond, La., in July 2011 at a beach house in Waveland, Miss.

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