State News
Officials reopen 1946 hanging case
09:29 AM CDT on Friday, April 23, 2004
DENTON -- Herb Vest says he never believed his father committed suicide nearly 58 years ago by hanging himself at his business.
Even when he was eleven -- when he found Harold Vest's death certificate in the family's attic -- he says the cause of death listed as "suicide" didn't ring true.
Vest may finally learn what really happened to the Gainesville cabinet maker -- thanks to a mysterious letter that has led Cooke County officials to reopen his father's case.
The Denton Record-Chronicle reports authorities will exhume Vest's body from a Henrietta cemetery Friday.
Justice of the Peace Dorothy Lewis determined there was sufficient probable cause to reopen the case after hearing evidence suggesting the 1946 death wasn't a suicide.
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