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Columbus Man Sentenced For Killing Grandfather

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published August 5, 2014 at 7:04 AM EDT
Columbus Division of Police

A Columbus man will serve 24 years in prison for killing his grandfather.  Matthew Kasee was sentenced yesterday for beating 78-year-old Carl Buriss to death in 2012 during a robbery.  Kasee says he was high drugs at the time.  
 
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Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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