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Jerry Branton Hobbs III is seen May 10, 2005 in a photo provided by the Zion Police Department. Hobbs has been charged with the murders of his daughter Laura Hobbs, 8, and her friend Krystal Tobias, 9, who were found stabbed and beaten to death in a park May 9, 2005 naer their homes in Zion, IL.
(Photo by Zion Police Department via Getty Images)

An undated photo of Laura Hobbs,8, provided by the Zion Police Department is seen May 11, 2005. Hobbs and her friend Krystal Tobias, 9, were found dead in a park May 9, 2005 in Zion, IL. Laura's father, Jerry Hobbs, has admitted murdering the two girls. (Photo by Zion Police Department via Getty Images)

Krystal Tobias, 9, is seen in an undated photo provided by the Zion Police Department. Tobias and her friend Laura Hobbs, 8, were found dead in a park May 9, 2005 in Zion, IL. Laura's father, Jerry Hobbs, has admitted murdering the two girls. (Photo by Zion Police Department via Getty Images)

ZION, IL - MAY 11: Sheila Hollabaugh (L), the mother of eight-year-old murder victim Laura Hobbs, leaves the Lake County Courthouse with attorney John Murphy (C) and a family friend (R) during a bond hearing for Jerry Hobbs, who is accused of murdering his daughter Laura Hobbs and a nine-year-old friend, May 11, 2005 in Zion, Illinois. Sheila Hollabaugh, friends and family left the courtroom upon hearing Zion Police Department officials describe the circumstances of the girls' deaths.
(Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Children's bodies found near park
When Laura Hobbs, 8 (left), and Krystal Tobias, 9, and didn't make it home for dinner, Mother's Day
turned into a frantic overnight search by police dogs and volunteers with flashlights.

The two girls, gregarious best pals in a blue-collar neighborhood, were found dead at 6 a.m. Monday
about 50 yards into the woods at the northeast end of Beulah Park in Zion.

The body of 8-year-old Laura Hobbs was found near a park in Zion Monday morning, along
with the body of her friend, 9-year-old Krystal Tobias. (May 9, 2005)

In this image from WFLD-TV in Chicago, authorities are seen in a nature area in Zion Monday,
where the bodies of Laura Hobbs, 8, and Krystal Tobias, 9, were found by a resident walking
through the wooded area near the city's Beulah Park early Monday morning.
Zion is about 50 miles north of Chicago.
(AP photo by WFLD-TV Chicago / May 9, 2005)

Investigators work under a tent marking the spot where the girls' bodies
were found near a Zion, Ill., park Monday morning.
(Tribune photo by John Smierciak / May 9, 2005)

Cindy Saffell watches her daughter Megan, 5, place flowers on a memorial for Laura Hobbs, 8, and
Krystal Tobias, 9, at Beulah Park Tuesday. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images / May 10, 2005)

A small memorial to Krystal Tobias sits on the walkway to her home in Zion, Ill., Wednesday.
(AP photo by Charles Rex Arbogast / May 11, 2005)

Christina Tobias (left), the mother of Krystal Tobias, and Krystal's half-brother, Alberto Segura,
attend a vigil Tuesday night. (Tribune photo by Candice C. Cusic / May 11, 2005)

Art and Emily Hollabaugh, grandparents of Laura Hobbs, stand outside their home in Zion, Ill., Tuesday.
(Tribune photo by Jim Robinson / May 11, 2005)

Seen in an undated Texas Department of Criminal Justice photo, Jerry Hobbs, the father of
Laura Hobbs, 8, was charged Tuesday with murder in the killings of Laura and her best
friend, Krystal Tobias, 9. Hobbs had just returned to the area about a month earlier
after serving two years in a Texas prison for aggravated assault.
(AP photo by Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice / May 10, 2005)

Christina Tobias watches through the window of a limo as friends and family walk towards the
chapel at the funeral of her daughter Krystal, Saturday, May 14, 2005 in Winthrop Harbor, Ill.
(AP photo by Brian Kersey / May 14, 2005)

The remains of 9-year-old Krystal Tobias are carried from the church following her funeral service
May 14, 2005 in Winthrop Harbor, Illinois. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images / May 14, 2005)

Grieving family members leave the church following the funeral for Krystal Tobias
at the First Baptist Church in Winthrop Harbor, Ill., Saturday, May 14, 2005.
(Tribune photo by Bonnie Trafelet / May 14, 2005)

Santiago Tobias and Christina Tobias, parents of 9-year-old Krystal Tobias,
arrive at the cemetery May 14, 2005 in Winthrop Harbor, Illinois.
(Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images / May 14, 2005)

Photos of 8-year-old Laura Hobbs are displayed outside the funeral home
as mourners arrive for her funeral in Zion Sunday, May 15, 2005.
(Tribune photo by Candice C. Cusic / May 15, 2005)

Sheila Hollabaugh, mother of Laura Hobbs, leaves funeral services for her daughter, Sunday,
May 15, 2005, in Zion, Ill. (AP photo by Brian Kersey / May 15, 2005)