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Echols Co. man stabs girlfriend to death

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By Jade Bulecza - bio | email

ECHOLS COUNTY, GA (WALB) –An Echols County man is in jail Monday night charged with murdering his girlfriend.

61-year old Lynnwood Mathis showed up at the Echols County Sheriff's Office late Saturday night and told a deputy there was a dead woman in his home on Bethel Church Road.

Officers found 28-year old Martha Felton of Jennings, Florida stabbed to death and wrapped in a blanket in a hallway.

They immediately arrested Mathis. He is now in the Lowndes County Jail.

 
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