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Ohio man pleads guilty in neighbor beheading

       Updated: 10/16/2009 1:51:02 PM  Posted: 10/15/2009 8:21:59 PM
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CANTON -- A northeast Ohio man has admitted that he killed and beheaded his neighbor in a mobile home park.

William Perry of North Canton pleaded guilty in Stark County Common Pleas Court to aggravated murder Thursday in a plea deal that will spare him the death penalty.   

Perry was accused in the death of 34-year-old Brett Smith, who was found decapitated last October.

Authorities say Smith died of asphyxiation.   

Perry was initially arrested on a charge accusing him of damaging the electric meter on Smith's property.

Smith also had filed a complaint with police alleging Perry hit him in the face.   

The plea deal calls for the 41-year-old Perry to get a life sentence and waive all of his appeals.

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