Opening set for Texas man’s murder retrial

By Washington Examiner

Published October 7, 2014 5:02am ET

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Opening set for Texas man’s murder retrial — FILE - In this March 11, 2013 file photo, inmate Ed Graf pauses during an interview at the Alfred Hughes State Prison in Gatesville, Texas. Jurors are being selected for the retrial of a Graf who is charged in his two stepsons' deaths in a fire nearly 30 years ago. Sixty-two-year-old Graf faces charges of capital murder and injury to a child in the 1986 deaths of his 8- and 9-year-old stepsons Jason and Joby. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File) | LM Otero

WACO, Texas (AP) — A Central Texas jury is to hear opening statements in the retrial of a Central Texas man charged in the deaths of his two stepsons in a fire nearly 30 years ago.

The McLennan County jury will hear the opening statements Tuesday morning in the trial of 62-year-old Ed Graf. He’s charged with two counts each of murder and capital murder and four counts of injury to a child in the 1986 deaths of his stepsons, 8-year-old Jason and 9-year-old Joby.

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