The mother of one of the girls called police at about 8:50 p.m. (9:50 p.m. Home to about 23,000 people, Zion is 44 miles north of Chicago. Police were alerted Saturday afternoon to a body near a rock pile in an empty lot near Lebanon, Illinois, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. ET) to say that her daughter had failed to return home as scheduled at 7 p.m., the chief said. CHICAGO (CBS)– A man was killed on Friday during a stabbing in Zion. Maurice Harris, 47, was last seen Monday afternoon at the trailhead of the East Rim Trail on the way to a shuttle stop, according to a statement from the park. Stone said the plea deal was more than symbolic for his client. He said his main goal in negotiating the deal was to see Torrez transferred from Red Onion Prison, which Stone called “an evil, racist facility.”. "Her brothers and sisters went out looking for her. Zion Shooting: 28-Year-Old Man Dead, 8-Year-Old Boy Among 3 WoundedZion police said officers responded to a call of shots fired shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday on the 2300 block of Joppa Avenue. Hobbs recently made news with another arrest again this month, according to a Wichita Falls, Texas, television station, which reported Hobbs, now 48, was jailed in Archer City after a police pursuit Sept. 4. ZION CITY, Ala. (WIAT) — UPDATE (10/18/19): The body of an adult male was found in the Zion City area Thursday afternoon. The population was 22,866 at the 2000 census, and had grown to 24,413 in 2010. “One murder is a tragedy,” Shanes told Torrez. What you did is repugnant to every moral of civilized society.”. Sheriff Booker did not say whether the deaths are considered suspicious. Laura's grandmother, Emily Hollabaugh, said the girls may have gone to the park for a picnic. Low-risk high school sports return in three regions, but basketball and football remain in limbo. Stone suggested an abusive childhood helped form the adult Torrez became. The body was found around 8:20 a.m. in Refrigerator Canyon. Shanes said both the state of Virginia and the federal government have approved the provision of the plea that calls for the transfer of Torrez from Red Onion. Under the negotiated agreement, convicted murderer Jorge Torrez, 30, pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced by a Lake County Circuit Court judge to 100 years in prison for the brutal Mother’s Day 2005 slayings of Laura Hobbs and Krystal Tobias. Zion is a city in Lake County, Illinois, United States. "A couple of younger boys had seen them over at the park playing about 5:30 or 6 o'clock, and I guess that was the last time anybody saw them," Hollabaugh told Chicago television station WLS. All external sites will open in a new browser. It's a crime against not only those kids, but against all of us.". Father guilty of killing 9 of his children, Security alert issued for 40 million credit cards. The bodies were discovered at Beulah Park around 6 a.m. (7 a.m. The latest charges come after Hobbs was released on parole for his last Wichita County convictions in May 2017 that included evading arrest. Galveston Police Detective Jeff Banks talks Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, about the findings in the autopsy of "Little Jacob," a young boy found dead on the beach in October. The report states that following a chase from Highway 79 into Wichita Falls, Hobbs was charged with evading arrest and possession of meth. Prior to Torrez being returned to Lake County, he already had been convicted of the strangulation murder of Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Amanda Snell, 20, who lived in the same barracks as Torrez when he served in the Marines at the Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Virginia. Stone also took some shots at Lake County, stating that the county jailed Jerry Hobbs after his confession was “coerced” by local police investigators, and “the state was ready to send him to the gallows.”. ZION, Ill., May 9 - Two second-grade girls who spent Sunday riding bikes around this working-class town on the edge of Lake Michigan were found dead of stab wounds … ST GEORGE, Utah (ABC4 News) - The body of missing hiker reported on Wednesday has been found in the Angel's Landing area of Zion National Park, according to St. George News. Tracey Lynn Rieker, 44, disappeared Sept. 30 … != -1 ) { Rescuers on Friday found a dead body and continued searching for … “I hope this will bring a small amount of closure to the families and to our community.”. The Birmingham Police Department says they are investigating the incident as a homicide at this time. Zion murder case informant found dead ... to stand trial on 18 counts of murder alleging he killed the two girls and left their bodies in a Zion park. The girls were reported missing by their parents Sunday evening. He said police conducted a search with help from a rescue dog and local citizen volunteer group. One Dead, Nine Missing In Norway Landslide. "They were out all night helping us search," he said of the volunteer group. The cause of death appeared to be multiple stab wounds with a knife, said Lake County Coroner Richard Keller, adding at an afternoon news conference that autopsies were still under way. His link to the Zion case came after Jerry Hobbs, Laura Hobbs' father, had previously confessed to the girls' murder after a long interrogation and was charged. "Apparently these girls were best friends and had last been seen riding their bikes together earlier in the afternoon," Malcolm said. They also found his wife, 53-year-old Dawn R. Whitney dead in the bathroom. ‘Maybe the season gets pushed back,’ IHSA says. He said no DNA evidence had been found so far. He added investigators have "no solid leads.". Torrez, a former Zion resident, was linked by DNA evidence in 2014 to the killings of 8-year-old Hobbs and 9-year-old Tobias in the Beulah Park nature area. 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GEORGE, Utah (ABC4 News) – The body of a missing hiker was found below Angels Landing, a popular trail with 1,500-foot drop-offs with handrails along the most narrow and dangerous part of the route. Zion police reported to a call of a fight in an apartment in the 4100 block of Barberry Lane around 10:00 p.m. At least one of the girls' bicycles was found at the scene. Birmingham police are investigating a homicide after a man's body was found in Zion City Thursday afternoon. 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But the agreement does formally find Torrez guilty in the deaths of Hobbs and Tobias, puts a 100-year sentence on the books and resolves the case more than a decade after the murders occurred. The town was founded in 1901 as a utopian society by a Scottish minister, Dr. John Alexander Dowie, according to its Web site. They didn't find her, and then, about 9 o'clock, they called the police. SPRINGDALE, Washington County — A body believed to be that of a man who went missing in Zion National Park on Monday has been found, park officials said Wednesday. Officers responded about 11:30 a.m. after maintenance workers from a nearby apartment complex saw the body in the pond in the 1500 block of Lorelei Drive, according to Zion police. //-->. "This is an unusual occurrence for our community, and we are going to do everything we possibly can to bring this to a quick resolution," Mayor Lane Harrison said. (Family photos provided by the Zion Police Department), [Most read] Man lived inside O’Hare for 3 months before detection, prosecutors say, [Most read] A ‘healthy’ doctor died two weeks after getting a COVID-19 vaccine; CDC is investigating why, More coverage: 10 years after 2 girls killed in Zion, families still await justice », [Most read] Coronavirus in Illinois updates: 50 new deaths, 3,385 new confirmed and probable cases announced Monday. Keller earlier said the girls were found in a wooded area and were not covered. Until officials announced incorrectly that Jerry Hobbs committed the murders, parents told reporters they were walking their children to school, and local and national reporters, as well as the curious, crowded outside of the Zion police station and near the scene of the murders as Zion police and the Lake County Major Crime Task Force investigated the crime. "We do have two murdered children, and we don't have anybody in custody," Zion police chief Doug Malcolm said. A man was found dead Sunday after going missing during a hike in Zion National Park, the National Park Service announced. WATCH: BODY FOUND IN ZION CITY The body was found …