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Amite Man Convicted On Murder Charges
An Amite man has been convicted on murder charges after killing three in a house fire.
A Tangipahoa Parish jury deliberated about three hours before convicting Michael Varnado of two counts of second-degree murder and one count of manslaughter in the deaths of his estranged girlfriend and her children. The children died when a fire was set at their mobile home in Hammond after their mother was suffocated.
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