Eugene Jeter News Today

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Bettmann Archive/Getty Images It was another summer night in 1981. Hundreds of people gathered for a "tea dance" at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Kansas City, Mo., on July 17. Among them were Karen Jeter, 37, and her husband, Eugene, 48, who had just gotten married a couple of weeks earlier. "She was a really good dancer. Loved to dance, loved music. Shes the one that taught me how to dance," said Karens son, Brent Wright. "They were really wonderful people." Television crews were also at...