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Defendant Facing Aggravated Murder Charge Dies Before Case Goes to Court
A man who was indicted for the murder of a Mt. Victory man in 2022 died last week, and the indictment against him was dismissed.
According to the Hardin County Common Pleas Court document, 50-year-old Anthony Allen Browne died on August 19.
As a result, the indictment on a charge of aggravated murder was dismissed, and all pending warrants were ordered recalled.
The charges were connected to the murder of Richard Whitaker Jr. on September 3 of 2022.
At the time of his death, Browne was serving a five-year prison sentence handed down in September of 2024 on two counts of illegal manufacturing of drugs.
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