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Man sentenced to 40 years in Orangeburg County woman's death
posted 11:47 am Fri May 02, 2008 - Orangeburg, SC
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(AP) -- A man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for killing an Orangeburg County woman and setting the home they shared on fire. The Times and Democrat of Orangeburg reports that 29-year-old Oscar Beecher McDowell was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty to killing 31-year-old Ruby Rawls. McDowell also was sentenced to 25 years for arson. Rawls' mutilated body was found in her burned Cordova home in February 2007. Authorities said her hands and legs had been cut, and her genitals had been mutilated. She had also been shot a dozen times. Prosecutor David Pascoe called the crime one of the most gruesome he had ever seen.
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