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TIL Las Vegas casino owner Benny Binion was a suspect in the 1972 car bombing murder of attorney and ex-FBI agent Bill Coulthard, with the murder allegedly motivated by a dispute over renewing the lease for the Horseshoe Casino in downtown Vegas.

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