{"id":3958,"date":"2016-05-27T07:43:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T23:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/27\/former-coal-executive-murdered-while-visiting-wifes-grave\/"},"modified":"2016-05-27T07:43:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T23:43:26","slug":"former-coal-executive-murdered-while-visiting-wifes-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/27\/former-coal-executive-murdered-while-visiting-wifes-grave\/","title":{"rendered":"Former coal executive murdered while visiting wife's grave"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Anthony Arriaga and Brandon Fitzpatrick pulled into\u00a0Mountain View Memory Gardens Cemetery in West Virginia on Sunday, two young and unsuccessful drug dealers desperate for cash.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They spotted a parked GMC Denali, an SUV with various models that range in price from around $30,000 to $65,000<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bennett Hatfield, the former CEO of Patriot Coal and the owner of the Denali, wasn’t far away. He’d come to the cemetery a week ahead of Memorial Day to decorate the grave of his wife, Debbie, who died of cancer in 2009<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Arriaga, 20, and Fitzpatrick, 18, reportedly unaware of Hatfield’s status in the coal industry, allegedly figured he’d be a good person to rob after spotting his Denali. But nothing went as planned. The robbery turned into a shooting and Arriaga found himself in custody on Wednesday, where police said he confessed<\/a> to murder days after fatally shooting Hatfield near the spot where his wife is buried.\u00a0<\/span> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Anthony Arriaga and Brandon Fitzpatrick pulled into\u00a0Mountain View Memory Gardens Cemetery in West Virginia on Sunday, two young and unsuccessful drug dealers desperate for cash.\u00a0 They spotted a parked GMC Denali, an SUV with various models that range in price … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3076,1687,3075,1112],"class_list":["post-3958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-coal-executive","tag-murder","tag-west-virginia","tag-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}