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Crime spree could lead to more charges against Georgia man

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Posted 5:28PM on Tuesday 16th April 2002 ( 23 years ago )
CLYDE, NORTH CAROLINA - More charges are possible against a Georgia man and a South Carolina woman arrested in a two-county crime spree that ended with a wreck that killed a Michigan woman. <br> <br> Twenty-nine-year-old Larry Winton Doyle Junior of Augusta and 27-year-old Kathy Lynn Thompson of Clarks Hill, South Carolina, are being held in the Buncombe County jail in North Carolina after their arrests Sunday. <br> <br> The alleged crime spree began in Asheville, North Carolina when investigators say Doyle grabbed a patron in a Wal-Mart parking lot at knifepoint and demanded the keys to her sport utlitity vehicle. <br> <br> Police say he stole the vehicle and then picked up Thompson before leading authorities on a chase on Interstate 40 in which he crashed into another car, killing 26-year-old Michele Curran of Niles, Michigan. <br> <br> Both Doyle and Thompson are charged with first-degree kidnapping, robbery with a dangerous weapon and larceny of a motor vehicle; Doyle was charged with additional driving-related counts.

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