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Linda Deutsch Dies: Longtime AP Courts Reporter Who Covered Manson, Simpson, Spector & More Was 80
Linda Deutsch, the Associated Press reporter who covered major Hollywood crimes for 50 years, died Sunday of pancreatic cancer. She was 80.
Linda Deutsch, the Los Angeles-based special correspondent for The Associated Press whose 50-year career with the news service included covering many of the most attention-getting trials in Hollywood history, died Sunday of pancreatic cancer at her Los Angeles home surrounded by family and friends. In her long career covering courts for the AP, Deutsch penned articles about such major criminal and civil cases as the murder trials of Charles Manson, O.J. She covered trials involving Michael Jackson, Patty Hearst, and the police officers charged in the beating of motorist Rodney King, among many others.
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