Man indicted in slaying of estranged wife, stepson

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A 45-year-old man has been indicted in the October killings of his estranged wife and stepson, Montgomery County officials said Thursday.

Authorities said a grand jury indicted Curtis M. Lopez on two counts of murder, two counts of kidnapping and one count of robbery. Lopez is accused of stabbing and beating 51-year-old Jane McQuain to death in her Germantown apartment, then picking up 11-year-old William McQuain — McQuain’s son and Lopez’s stepson — from a friend’s house and later killing him in a wooded area of Clarksburg.

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