Records: Neighbor confessed to killing Bootheel girl

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

KENNETT, Mo. -- A Southeast Missouri man told authorities he suffocated a 3-year-old neighbor girl he found playing at his backyard swimming pool and then threw her body in a floodway ditch, court documents allege.

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