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

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.

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