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3 Cape Bretoners were hit and killed by a train in Maine in 1970. Some want the case reopened

Kenny Novak, 15, David Burrows, 17, and Terry Burt, 20, were in sleeping bags on a rail track west of the border town of Houlton, Maine, when they were struck early on the morning of July 10, 1970, by a train. The deaths were ruled accidental, but questions persist about the deaths.

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