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Focus of Selden murder-for-hire, incest case speaks with News 12

In 1986, Cheryl Pierson - a popular cheerleader at Newfield High School in Selden - was taken away in handcuffs, charged with hiring a classmate to kill her father. Now 30 years later, Pierson and her

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