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Parents' texts suggest effort to cover up killing of son, 5

by Associated Press
| July 16, 2020 1:03 PM

CHICAGO (AP) — The voice of a 5-year-old boy who was beaten to death and buried in a shallow grave filled a northern Illinois courtroom Thursday during a hearing in which a judge will decide if his mother, who admitted to killing the child, should die in prison.

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