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Suspect testifies he killed pair over fake cocaine

Furious that he had spent $30,000 on cocaine that was fake, Darren Lynch testified Tuesday that he shot and killed two men who arranged the bad drug deal, dismembered their bodies and buried the parts in a Coram sump and his parents' backyard.

He denied kidnapping them, as prosecutors assert, and said his co-defendant in the double-murder trial, James Wall, had nothing to do with the slayings.

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