Guess who killed the two little girls in Illinois...

[SUGARBABY]

They have a person of interest...

do you think it is:

1) family member
2) stranger
3) another child (under 18 years old)

[ByRoN]

Re: Guess who killed the two little girls in Illinois...

3

[BIGMOFO]

Re: Guess who killed the two little girls in Illinois...

They have a person of interest...

do you think it is:

1) family member
2) stranger
3) another child (under 18 years old)

some sick fucker that needs to die!

[Skarhead]

Re: Guess who killed the two little girls in Illinois...

some sick fucker that needs to die!

agree

[Merc]

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I am guessing number 3

[DJDIGGLER]

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2

[T-Man007]

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some sick fucker that needs to die!

That's my answer too.

Hey BM, did you know the Bible says in Genisis that "if the blood of man be shed by another man, so shall his blood be shed by man"? I don't have it exact, but that's what it says.

[Got Gear?]

Re: Guess who killed the two little girls in Illinois...

1 or 3... I'm leaning towards 3..

Statistics say that most of these cases involve people known to the victim.

[T-Man007]

Re: Guess who killed the two little girls in Illinois...

What's the answer?

[kite]

Re: Guess who killed the two little girls in Illinois...

From all that I've heard on the news, it looks like it's gonna be the dad.

[kite]

Re: Guess who killed the two little girls in Illinois...

Report: Father to Be Charged in Ill. Girls' Murders

Tuesday, May 10, 2005



ZION, Ill. — The father of one of two little girls found stabbed to death in a northern Illinois park will be charged with their murders, a local TV station reported Tuesday.

Jerry Hobbs, who recently served time for assault in Texas, has been arrested for the slayings of daughter Laura Hobbs (search), 8, and her best friend, Krystal Tobias (search), 9, WFLD-TV reported.

Sources told FOX News a suspect would be charged by Wednesday. The Zion Police Department, which had been tight-lipped all day, scheduled a press conference for 4:30 p.m. CDT.

Hobbs' family said police were unfairly narrowing their focus on him because of his lengthy criminal past.

Laura's mother talked to authorities around noon Tuesday and was told that Hobbs was still being held and had not confessed to any role in the girls' deaths, said his mother-in-law, Emily Hollabaugh. She said authorities would not tell her anything else, and Hobbs was not allowed to talk to the family.

Earlier on Tuesday, Laura's grandfather, Arthur Hollabaugh, said he and his son-in-law were the ones who found the girls' bodies. Hollabaugh also revealed that Jerry Hobbs had recently been released from prison for an incident involving the girl's mother and was being questioned by police.

"Jerry just got out of prison for aggravated assault and I think they're holding that against him," Hollabaugh said. "I don't think he did it."

Hobbs has an extensive criminal history dating back to 1990 in Texas, including prior arrests for assault and resisting arrest, according to records kept by the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Records also show Hobbs had a rocky relationship with Laura's mother, Sheila Hollabaugh. Hobbs had been arrested in 2001 after arguing with her, grabbing a chainsaw and chasing other residents around the Texas trailer park where they lived, according to Wichita County Assistant District Attorney Rick Mahler. Someone eventually subdued Hobbs by hitting him in the back with a shovel, Mahler said.

Hobbs was convicted of aggravated assault and sentenced to 10 years probation, but he failed to appear for his required meetings, so his probation was revoked in 2003 and he was imprisoned until his release on April 12, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

While Laura had lived in Zion since moving there with her family last August, her father rejoined the family just last month after getting out of jail.

Police have yet to publicly confirm that Hobbs was the first person to locate the girls' bodies.

Arthur Hollabaugh said he and his son-in-law were searching for the second-graders early Monday morning when they happened upon his granddaughter's bike.

While Hollabaugh called police, Jerry Hobbs found Laura and Krystal's bloody bodies a short distance away, and he began to scream.

"I went and I seen them from a distance," Hollabaugh, 51, told The Associated Press Tuesday in describing the scene he found shortly after dawn Monday morning. "It was clear they were laying there."

Hollabaugh said investigators had questioned Hobbs, and had also talked to Laura's siblings about him.

Police searched the home where Laura lived, and Hollabaugh said they took measurements of his shoe soles. "They went through our stuff, took clothes. They've taken his and my daughter's and taken the computer to see if my granddaughter was on an Internet chat room," Hollabaugh said.

Donald Meadie, assistant commander of the Lake County Major Crime Task Force, confirmed late Monday that Jerry Hobbs had been questioned, but he declined to comment further.

Meanwhile, residents of the small city of Zion were keeping their children close by as police searched for whoever brutally stabbed the two little girls to death. A memorial of flowers and balloons marked the area of Beulah Park where the girls' bodies were found.

Grief counselors were sent to Beulah Park Elementary school, where Laura and Krystal were in the second grade. A teacher at the school, Julie Dobnikar, described them as "very sweet girls."

A town meeting at which parents would be briefed on the murder investigation and given tips on how to keep their children safe was to be held Tuesday evening.

Residents of the city of 22,000, whose mayor doubles as a full-time high school teacher, wondered what kind of person could have killed Laura and Krystal and left their bodies on the ground in a park.

"I have a lot of questions, but it's just mostly rage at whoever could do this to two little girls," said Laura's grandmother, Emily Hollabaugh.

Police visited Laura's home and took clothing worn by family members Sunday, the day the girls disappeared, Sheila Hollabaugh told the Chicago Tribune in Tuesday's editions.

"I can't believe she's gone," Hollabaugh said of her daughter.

Students at Beulah Park seemed shaken that anyone would want to harm their classmates.

A friend of the girls, Michelle Maldonado, said she and her fellow students would often play in the park without a second thought.

"Every Wednesday we played in the park," she said. "Nothing really happened there, much."

Erica Harris, another friend of the victims, said she would now be afraid to play in the park.

"I was just scared because we would walk home on Wednesdays all the time and we would go to that park and play in the woods. I was sad because we were good friends," Harris said. When asked what warning from adults she received about the park, she said she was told not to talk to strangers there.

The girls' class had just finished reading "Charlotte's Web" and "A Taste of Blackberries," both of which deal with loss, school superintendent Constance Collins said Tuesday.

"I think that those stories will serve as an excellent backdrop for what we're going to have to deal with today," she told ABC's "Good Morning America."

The girls' bodies were discovered in Beulah Park (search) about four blocks from their school on Monday shortly after dawn, although police said no weapons were found and there was no evidence of sexual assault. A girl's bicycle was found nearby.

The county coroner's office told FOX News the girls had been stabbed multiple times in the throat and beaten in the head.

Fifteen-year-old Albert Tobias said he didn't know of any reason why someone would want to attack his sister. "I really don't know anything. All I know is she got stabbed," he said in a brief phone interview. "But I would like to know what happened."

Zion, along Lake Michigan near the Wisconsin border, was founded in 1901 by a religious faith healer as a utopian community. It is a working-class city that according to news accounts had just started bouncing back from the loss of a Commonwealth Edison nuclear plant in 1997.

Zion retains a quiet, at times rural feel despite being on the edge of both the Chicago and Milwaukee metropolitan areas.

Laura Unrein, who lives near Beulah Park, said the area where the bodies were found is well known as a place to avoid. The heavily wooded park has a paved bike path, a ravine and trails made by mountain bikes.

"It is so secluded that I have to say not everybody would know where that area is," she said. "I hope they do beef up the patrol around there. There's kind of a battle right now exactly over who's supposed to patrol it. We don't really care who does, just do it."

Residents said the area was popular among kids for drinking and goofing around, as well as for illegal hunting.

The parents of one of the girls had reported her missing about 8:50 p.m. Sunday, about two hours after she was expected home, Malcolm said. The parents of the other girl called shortly afterward, and authorities with rescue dogs began searching.

The girls' bodies were discovered shortly after 6 a.m. on Monday.

Lake County Coroner Richard Keller said it appears the girls were killed where their bodies were found. They had both been stabbed multiple times, authorities said.

"They were best friends. When one left, the other left. They were always together," said Unrein.

The killings stunned this town about 45 miles north of Chicago, prompting police and Beulah Park Elementary School (search) officials to escort children directly onto buses at the end of the school day.

"I know that they were very sweet girls," said Julie Dobnikar, who teaches second grade at the school, adding that the girls' teacher is "very distraught right now."

Dozens of anxious parents waited until their children emerged from the front doors of the school, then put their arms around their kids or clutched their hands as they walked to their cars.

"I'm concerned for their safety," Cynthia Taylor said of her granddaughters, ages 5 and 6. "It's bad and scary that people could be so cruel to innocent kids."

FOX News' Jeff Goldblatt and Jane Roh and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

[T-Man007]

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From all that I've heard on the news, it looks like it's gonna be the dad.

That litterally makes me sick to my stomach.

I think every parent who kills a child should be locked in a room with parents who have had children killed. End of problem. Instead of jail, you get beat to death by someone who only wishes they still had what you killed.

[Got Gear?]

Re: Guess who killed the two little girls in Illinois...

Statistics say that most of these cases involve people known to the victim.

What a sick world we live in.

[daved150]

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some sick fucker that needs to die!

bingo...i dont even want to guess...i just want the sick phuq to die a slow and painful death!!!!

[DJDIGGLER]

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I'd love to just dip these bastards in blood and drop them in the middle of the atlantic and tell them if they make it home they're free. It would make for some good video to watch people like that get ripped apart by some friendly sharks!