"Troopers arrested two men around 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Eagle Motel in downtown Palmer on charges of first-degree murder: 38-year-old Robert Barker and 35-year-old Joed Weyand, both Palmer residents."


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Being a decent human being...
If it was in self defense they would have went straight to the cops to tell them what the heck just went down...instead of staying away from the cops buying time to make up a story.