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Whipple could face murder charge
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A man who stood atop a shed and threatened Warren County deputies with a meat cleaver a decade ago has been found with a woman’s body in his car following a high-speed chase and fight with lawmen in Franklin County.The suspect, Robert Troy Whipple, 46, is being held without bond in Franklin County under suspicion of murder after officers found the body of Bridgette Haley, 46, in the passenger seat of his car. Her body has been sent for autopsy to determine her cause of death but homicide is suspected.It was during the traffic stop Whipple reportedly stabbed a Franklin County deputy during the fight that ensued once he was stopped early Sunday morning on Chase Bend Road in Franklin County. The deputy, Sgt. Milton Binkley, suffered a knife wound to his right hand and wrist.