By John A. Torres
USA Today
MELBOURNE, Fla. — Barring any last-minute setbacks, the country’s youngest murderer will walk out of prison Tuesday — free for the first time since he was 12 years old.
Curtis Fairchild Jones and his sister, Catherine, then 13, admitted to killing their father’s girlfriend, Sonya Nicole Speights, in 1999. Initial signs pointed to jealousy as the motive, but a closer look at documents and child welfare reports revealed the siblings targeted Speights, their father and another male relative living with them, whom they claimed was sexually abusing them.
The plan was to kill all three when they realized their cries for help were going unheeded.
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