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Girl's Broken Body Found in Wooded Areadl Youth Admits Assault And Beating to Death Of 7-Year-OldISI-*122-ST. LOUIS (AP—The broken body of 7-y ear-old Carol Sue Blankenship was found Thursday night 222 a wooded area near the Mississippi River. A 17-year-oIc boy 2- told police be lured the girl to the a Urea bv promising to pick mui-ei berries for her, then raped and 1- i bear her to death with a club. _ The circuit attorney’s office is-ft sued a first degree murder wars' rani against Abraham William Skaggs shortly before midnight.Skaggs, who left sehocd after completing the seventh grade, had been living about a fruit market where he worked as a clerk, j In Ms oral statement, police said, Skaggs told them the girl began shouting she wanted to go home and that he struck her with a length of tree limb.Girl Missed at 2 P.M.L-guess I must have blown my jitop/’ he said, jj Mrs. Joseph Blankenship mifued rjher daughter about 2 p.m. Thurs-*! day. The girl had spent most of the day playing with neighborhood children on a sandpile near her home in south St. Louis. A search J failed to locate the girl. Police . I were calied.11 A short time later, Leslie Upchurch. 15. discovered the body.#Skaggs was picked up for questioning after a several children reported seeing Carol riding on a bicycle with Mm.Put Up.Frantic Struggle Lt. Arthur Sullivan said Skaggs, a slim youth about 5 feet tall, had blood on his shoes. The boy first told officers he remembered taking Carol to the woods but suffered a blackout after they arrived and could recall nothing else.Lt. Sullivan said Skaggs later changed Ms story and went with police to the scene. A broken club with blood on it was found nearby.August Ernst, acting chief of detectives, said there was evidence that Carol had: put up a frantic struggle. Her death was caused by a crushed skull.Carol was the oldest of tilt BlankensMp’s five children.
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Moberly Monitor Index
Moberly, Missouri, US
Fri, Jul 08, 1960
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