1963 Press Photo Douglas C. Godfrey, 15, confesses shooting his mother, Mary.
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Fifteen-year-old Douglas Cooper Godfrey is shown entering Oakland County, Michigan courthouse late today for preliminary hearing into the January 28 killing of his mother, Mrs. Mary Godfrey, 38, with a .22 caliber gun. Douglas was held over for a February 13 decision on whether he should be tried as an adult or a juvenile. Prosecutor George F. Taylor said Douglas confessed slaying his mother by firing through a kitchen window because "she tried to find excuses to keep me home."
