Cairo man pleads guilty to bank murders

Friday, March 17, 2017

BENTON, Ill. — A man who stabbed three bank employees, leaving two of them dead, as part of an attempted bank robbery in Cairo, Illinois, will spend the rest of his life in prison.

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