Scott Panetti

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Victims await final verdict
Supreme Court will hear convicted killer's last appeal tomorrow
 
By: Ingrid Norton
Posted: 4/17/07
 
Most people in Fredericksburg remember Scott Panetti as he walked around town in
rawhide boots or moccasins he'd made himself, dressed in buckskin clothes with
knives strapped around his waist, or else dressed up in camouflage. He said he'd
been a U.S. Navy SEAL, and he talked about fighting in Vietnam, though he was only
14 years old when the conflict ended. He drove around the town, 74 miles north of
Austin, in his Jeep with tools for horseshoing strapped on the back. On a good day
he was friendly and enthusiastic.
 
But people in town also know about how he beat and threatened his first wife. Court
documents state that Scott nailed the curtains shut and drove knives into the ground
to exorcise the devil. ....
 



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