Hell's Angel loses appeal

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Hell's Angel member serving a life sentence for the 1975 murder of a 19-year-old woman has lost his latest appeal.

A federal judge on Thursday dismissed the filing from Thomas "Red" Nesbitt.

Nesbitt was convicted in 1986 of first-degree murder in the death of Mary Kay Harmer, who disappeared in 1975. Her skeletal remains were found nine years later in a manhole near Omaha's Eppley Airfield.

In the appeal filed in May in U.S. District Court in Lincoln, Nesbitt says his trial attorney was ineffective, among other things.

Nesbitt's three previous appeals to the Nebraska Supreme Court were thrown out.

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U.S. District Court, Nebraska: http://www.ned.uscourts.gov/

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