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As Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper’s “American Sniper” rakes in an estimated $500 million at the box office, the Texas county that hosted the real life capital murder trial of Chris Kyle’s killer is tallying receipts of its own – expenditures adding up to $1 million.

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Eddie Ray Routh was sentenced to life without parole on Feb. 24 for killing "American Sniper" Chris Kyle and fellow veteran Chad Littlefield near Stephenville, Texas, on Feb. 2, 2013.

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Eddie Ray Routh has filed for a new trial. Routh was sentenced to life without parole on Feb. 24 for killing "American Sniper" Chris Kyle and fellow veteran Chad Littlefield near Stephenville, Texas, on Feb. 2, 2013.

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The murders were bloody and senseless, according to one testimony, and after nine days of proceedings, the former Marine who admitted to the killing of famed Navy SEAL Chris Kyle – subject of the blockbuster film “American Sniper” – and fellow veteran Chad Littlefield was found guilty of capital murder Tuesday evening.

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Routh, a former Marine, ended an almost eight-month Kuwait and Iraq tour in early 2008 and deployed on a humanitarian aid mission to an earthquake-ravaged Haiti in 2010, according to service documents obtained by Warfighter News, a reporting organization made up of combat veterans and their family members.

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Two forensic psychologists took the stand Friday in the capital murder trial of Eddie Ray Routh, accused of killing famed “American Sniper” author Chris Kyle and fellow veteran Chad Littlefield at a Texas shooting range two years ago.

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The former Marine accused of killing two fellow veterans at a shooting range in Texas two years ago has received $2,800 each month in Veterans Affairs disability payments, jurors in his capital murder trial learned Tuesday.

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The prosecution is expected to rest its case Tuesday in the trial of a former Marine accused of killing "American Sniper" author Chris Kyle.

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The trial of Eddie Ray Routh continued Monday — day four – with jurors in Texas being played voicemail messages left for Chris Kyle by his alleged killer.

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The state of Texas was granted a motion to photograph the tattoos of Eddie Ray Routh, the alleged killer of "American Sniper" Chris Kyle.

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The video was played in a Stephenville courtroom Thursday, the second day in the trial of Eddie Ray Routh, 27, the former Marine who admitted to the killings of Chad Littlefield and "American Sniper" Chris Kyle.

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The trial will hear witnesses testimonies in the coming months, many of whom will be questioned about several points brought up regarding Routh’s past.

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