NATO AIR
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truly a sad case, i hope this bastard gets the death penalty
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...91.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=2&cset=true
Drowned Ind. Girl May Have Seen Drug Deal
By Associated Press
Published February 4, 2005, 3:09 PM CST
BROWNSTOWN, Ind. -- A man charged with killing a 10-year-old girl whose body was found in a creek told investigators her abduction was intended to scare her into keeping quiet about methamphetamine activities in her neighborhood, prosecutors said.
Charles Hickman, 20, did not speak to reporters as he was led into a courthouse for a hearing Friday on murder and criminal confinement charges in the death of Katlyn Collman.
Court documents filed by prosecutors said that Collman drowned about 15 miles from her hometown of Crothersville. Her body was found Sunday and she had last been seen five days earlier as she walked three blocks home from an errand to buy toilet paper.
Hickman told investigators that Collman was brought to his home by the residents of an apartment near the store where she had shopped, the documents alleged. He said the residents were worried Collman had seen them producing or using methamphetamine and that she might tell others what she had seen, according to the documents.
"They decided to scare her with the hope that she would be intimidated enough to keep her observations to herself," FBI agent James Kouns wrote in an affidavit.
Prosecutors allege that Hickman tied the girl's hands behind her back. Hickman first told investigators the girl tried to run away and fell into the creek, but also said he might have "bumped" her into the water.
Prosecutors had not decided whether to seek the death penalty against Hickman.
The girl's death was the first homicide in 25 years in the town of about 1,500 people some 40 miles north of Louisville, Ky.
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