Woman killed in head-on crash

MATTHEWS -- A Wyatt woman was killed in a head-on vehicle collision early Sunday in New Madrid County.

According to Missouri State Highway Patrol, at 3:01 a.m. northbound motorist Marilyn L. Gillespie, 35, of Wyatt was traveling in the wrong direction on southbound Interstate 55 at the 56.8 mile marker.

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