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Defense Attorney Seeks To Clear Montauk Client Who Died Last Month

Publication: The East Hampton Press
By Virginia Garrison   Feb 5, 2013 4:48 PM
Feb 5, 2013 5:32 PM
An attorney for Thomas Solheim of Montauk, who died last month, said he is trying to clear Mr. Solheim’s name in a “cold-case” arrest in 2010 in connection with the 1992 murder of a fellow sailor. “It’s really not anything that’s good for Tom; it’s a little late for that,” said the defense attorney, Andy Savage of Charleston, South Carolina, “but for his family and his friends.”

Mr. Solheim, 56, was found unconscious by a church member at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk on January 10 and pronounced dead at Southampton Hospital. East Hampton Town Detective Lieutenant Chris Anderson said the cause of his death was still being investigated, but that there seemed to be no evidence of foul play.

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