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May 17, 2017

911 call: ‘I murdered my wife’: Tape played at preliminary hearing for Olean House resident Edward Smith

OLEAN, N.Y. — The Cattaraugus County 911 center received a call at 6:42 a.m. Saturday. When a dispatcher asked what the caller’s emergency was, the caller replied, “I murdered my

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