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WATCH: Savannah Guthrie reports on Ernest Lee Johnson murders in 1994

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

These videos pulled from the ABC 17 News archive show the station's original reporting in the aftermath of a 1994 triple murder at a Casey's gas station.

Ernest Lee Johnson was convicted in the brutal killings of Mary Bratcher, Fred Jones and Mable Scruggs with a hammer and screwdriver and sentenced to death. He was scheduled to be executed Tuesday.

The report on these 1994 stories is Savannah Guthrie, now one of the faces of NBC News.

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