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Released on $5,000 bail, Florida man kept promise to kill his wife
In the weeks leading up to her murder, Karen Spencer's husband violently attacked her twice and made a promise from jail to finish what he started.
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Less than a month before Dusty Ray Spencer brutally stabbed and beat his wife to death in front of her horrified teenage son, he called her from a Florida jail and made a promise: "When I get out, I'm going to finish what I started," court records say.
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