Cynthia Baker

Victoria Baker was sentenced to 30 months probation Tuesday for harassing a witness in the 2019 murder trial of her sister Cynthia Baker, who was convicted of the brutal murder of an 8-year-old girl.

The sister of convicted murderer Cynthia Baker was convicted herself Tuesday of harassing a witness during Baker’s 2019 trial in the death of 8-year-old Rica Rountree.

The beating death of an 8-year-old Normal girl is the focus of a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday against six state child welfare workers, the child’s…

Cynthia Baker’s life sentence in the beating death of an 8-year-old girl will stand, a judge ruled on Tuesday.Judge Casey Costigan denied a defense motion…

The hastily concluded investigation by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services into black eyes and bruises on a child who died weeks later…

The father of an 8-year-old girl killed in 2019 by his girlfriend pleaded guilty Thursday to child endangerment.Richard Rountree was sentenced to eight…

The defense attorney for Richard Rountree said Friday she’s talking to prosecutors about a plea agreement that could resolve the child endangerment charge…

For the first time since her daughter was killed, Anntionetta Rountree sat in the same courtroom Friday with the woman convicted of inflicting the fatal…

The woman convicted of killing an 8-year-old girl from Normal hopes to earn a new trial by claiming ineffective assistance from her lawyer, as her sister…

Authorities said Wednesday that Cynthia Baker’s murder conviction is “not the finish line” and that others may be charged—possibly Rica Rountree’s…