After seven years investigating what was long considered a cold case, the trial of the South Philadelphia man accused of killing Minnesota teaching student Beau Zabel for his iPod opened Monday before a Philadelphia jury. Assistant District Attorney Tracie Gaydos told the Common Pleas Court jury in her opening statement that dogged detective work and Marcellus Jones' own indiscrete admissions to friends and relatives would prove that he was the person who shot the 23-year-old Zabel in the back of the neck early on June 14, 2008. Richard...
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