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Do you remember the 2005 Belleville salon murders?

A grand jury on Friday issued murder charges against a man believed at one time to be a prime suspect in the grisly stabbing murders of three people in a west Belleville beauty salon in 2005.

Samuel L. Johnson, 50, was charged Friday with first-degree murder in connection with the slayings of Doris Fischer, 79, and her sister, Dorothy Bone, 82, and their hairdresser, Michael Cooney, 62, at Cooney’s home-based beauty salon in West Belleville on March 2, 2005.

Take a look back at some of the Belleville News-Democrat’s coverage of the grisly triple murder since the day it happened. See below for an interactive timeline of the killings and related events.

This story was originally published September 12, 2016 at 12:21 PM with the headline "Do you remember the 2005 Belleville salon murders?."

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