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Hearing scheduled for Accident man charged in 2 slayings

Hearing scheduled for Accident man charged in 2 slayings

OAKLAND — A man charged with murdering a young couple in western Maryland is due in court for pretrial motions.

The hearing for 46-year-old Jeffrey Minnick was set for Tuesday. He has denied the allegations.

Minnick, of , is charged with two counts of first-degree in the May 31 stabbing deaths of 24-year-old Timothy Lax and 18-year-old Jessica Baker, both of .

Their bodies were found in a vagrants’ camp near some railroad tracks with Minnick’s bloody hunting knife nearby. Minnick told police someone else killed them.

Prosecutors say Minnick told a witness days before the slayings that if Lax wouldn’t get rid of Baker, he would do both of them in.