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A story in today's Daily Breeze identified David Viens as a "person of interest" in the police investigation into the disappearance of his wife, Dawn Viens, who has been missing for 16 months. This morning, David Viens, 47, jumped from a cliff in Rancho Palos Verdes and has been taken to a hospital in critical condition. Police said in the Breeze story that they are looking as the woman's disappearance as a possible homicide.
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