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Cook County sheriff’s office A man who stabbed a 6-year-old boy to death nearly three decades ago in a Far South Side garage was sentenced to 50 years in prison Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to attempted murder. Osborne Wade wasn’t charged with Lindsey Murdock’s murder until 2016. Another man, Mark Maxson, would spend nearly two decades in prison for the crime until his conviction was vacated five years ago and he was declared innocent. Before Wade was sentenced by Cook County Judge Peggy Chiampas on Tuesday, prosecutors dropped two counts of murder against the 47-year-old, court re...
A man whose DNA linked him to the brutal 1992 slaying of a 6-year-old boy — and exonerated another man who was in prison for the killing — pleaded guilty to attempted murder Tuesday.