Lakisha Jackson: October 2008 Archives

GODFREY, Ill. (AP) -- An Alton woman is jailed on $1 million bond after being accused of killing her 86-year-old mother, then hiding the carpet-wrapped body under a wood pile in the dead woman's garage.

Madison County prosecutors charged 60-year-old Marsha Zahn with first-degree murder and concealment of a homicidal death.

Investigators say they went to Harriett Cobb's Godfrey home Sunday evening after a relative reque...

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ST. LOUIS (KMOV) -- Authorities believe skeletal remains found in Pike County, Mo., are those of a person who went missing in 1992.

A man doing excavation work found the remains Sunday a few miles from Elsberry in Pike County, near the Lincoln County line.

Sheriff Jim Wells says the remains are those of an adult but declined to speculate further. He says forensic work to identify the remains could take some time.

>> Continue reading: Pike County- Skeletal remains found date back to 1992

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