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Ocala Man Pleads Guilty To Killing Roommate Over Toilet Paper
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Published: July 3, 2008
OCALA — A north Florida man accused of fatally beating his roommate with a sledgehammer and claw hammer because there was no toilet tissue in the home has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
Circuit Judge David Eddy accepted Franklin Paul Crow's plea deal Thursday. In exchange for the plea, Crow took an offer of 30 years in prison.
Crow was charged with the February 2006 death of Kenneth Matthews.
Crow told investigators that Matthews pulled out a rifle during a fight about toilet tissue. Crow said he then began beating Matthews with the sledgehammer and claw hammer, according to an affidavit.
A message left for Assistant State Attorney John Moore was not immediately returned. The phone at the public defender's office would not accept messages.
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