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CHARGES FILED IN CHILD'S 1976 DEATH

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Sept. 2, 1993, marked the 17th anniversary of the death of Danielle C. Neal, a 13-month-old Korean girl adopted by a Toledo, Ohio, couple. It also marked the day the Tazewell County Sheriff's Department reopened the investigation into the death, a case that had been long forgotten. "After all this time, this little girl is going to have her day in court," said Kirk Schoenbein, the assistant state's attorney who pursued a criminal case against...

had accidentally caused the

death

of her

adopted

child in 1976 in Morton.

...

Forensic work indicates Danielle's

death

was a "classic

shaken

-

baby

case,"

...

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1994 May 21