Family says threat nixed intervention

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William Thomas Parrish III?s family knew he held a woman captive in his grandfather?s Finksburg home.

But no one told police for fear Parrish, 25, would act on his threat to hurt 72-year-old Lawrence Thompson if the woman escaped. “He threatenedto harm his grandfather,” who has a pacemaker, said a family member, who asked o remain anonymous.

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