Dispute over panties continues

Friday, Nov. 5, 1999 | 11:01 a.m.

Sandy Murphy's black panties still are missing.

Murphy and her lawyer, John Momot, went to the Clark County Detention Center late Thursday to examine four pairs of unclaimed black panties.

But none turned out to be Murphy's, Momot said this morning.

Earlier this week Momot filed court papers demanding officials return the panties they " illegally seized" from her during the week she spent at the detention center.

A Nov. 15 hearing on the matter was set before District Judge Joseph Bonaventure.

Murphy, a 27-year-old onetime topless dancer, and her reported lover, Montana contractor Rick Tabish, are charged in the September 1998 slaying of Ted Binion. Prosecutors have alleged the two defendants pumped Binion with drugs, suffocated him and stole his valuables.

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