Jury selection is underway in a murder case that took nearly 30 years for Summit County authorities to bring the defendant to trial. Scott David Purk, who already is serving a 28-year prison term stemming from a 2011 indictment for attempted murder and aggravated arson at his own home in Stow, is accused of killing his young wife when they lived at a Timber Trail apartment in Akron in March 1985. Margaret Anne Purk was 24 years old and 8½ months pregnant when her husband told police that she hung herself from a...
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