The attacker bludgeons Maier to death with a rock and rapes his girlfriend, beating her so badly he breaks her nose and crushes one of her eye sockets. Left for dead, she survives the attack. She was beaten in the head with an antique iron. A burglar leaves a partial palm print on a windowpane. Police say Benton was raped, stabbed three times and clubbed in the head as many as 19 times.
Police say the couple was struck with a sledgehammer from the garage.
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