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Bridgeport man pleads guilty to dismembering friend

A Bridgeport man pleaded guilty Friday to dismembering a Stratford man with an ax, then stuffing his body into a metal barrel last summer. The body of 34-year-old Charles Gerber was found in a barrel

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