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Monday, April 29, 2013  Sheds, stables, attics searched for suspect in stabbing death of 8-year-old girl in Northern California

Friday, November 02, 2012  Prosecutor: Illinois woman told children to pray, then stabbed them as they begged for lives

Friday, October 26, 2012  Mom kept loving blog of children stabbed dead in New York City home; police suspect nanny

Wednesday, October 24, 2012  Evidence left online, in home of 2 teenage brothers accused of murdering 12-year-old New Jersey girl

Thursday, May 24, 2012  NYPD: 'Person in custody' implicated himself in Etan Patz's death; boy went missing in 1979

Tuesday, February 14, 2012  Authorities investigating the October 2009 disappearance of a Missouri girl had seized muddy clothes and shovels from the home of a neighboring teenager who later confessed to killing and burying the girl, according to secretly filed court documents obtained by The Associated Press.

Wednesday, February 08, 2012  Update: Alyssa Bustamante was sentenced to life in prison on murder charges Wednesday.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012  Update: A Cole County Judge accepted Alyssa Bustamante's withdrawal of a not guilty plea to first degree murder, and a guilty plea to 2nd degree murder and armed criminal action.

Tuesday, December 27, 2011  Babysitter tells police he fatally beat Indiana girl with brick, dismembered her with hacksaw

Thursday, December 22, 2011  The trial of a Mid-Missouri teen accused of killing a nine-year-old neighbor is scheduled to begin Jan. 30, 2012 in the new Christopher Bond Federal Courthouse.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011  Trial has already been pushed back twice

Friday, August 19, 2011  Judge accepts plea to free 3 men convicted in Arkansas scouts' deaths after 18 years in prison

Friday, August 19, 2011  Three men convicted of killing three 8-year-old boys in Arkansas are due in court for a hearing that could end with their release from custody.

Thursday, August 18, 2011  Murder suspect's attorneys say they have repeatedly asked the prosecution to turn over evidence and its witness list.

Friday, July 01, 2011  Casey Anthony murder trial in indefinite recess after morning legal dispute by attorneys