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Boxer Valero kills himself in jail, police say (AP)

April 19th, 2010

In this photo taken Feb. 6, 2010 Venezuela's Edwin Valero celebrates his victory over Mexico's Antonio DeMarco at a WBC lightweight title fight in Monterrey, Mexico. Valero committed suicide in his jail cell on Monday, April 19, 2010, in Valencia, Venezuela, just hours after he was arrested in his wife's killing, police said. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)AP - Former boxing champion Edwin Valero, who had a spectacular career with 27 straight knockouts and flouted a tattoo of President Hugo Chavez on his chest, hanged himself in his jail cell Monday after being arrested for stabbing his wife to death, police said.


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