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Jury: Deaths of East St. Louis cousins homicides

06:11 PM CDT on Wednesday, August 13, 2008

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) -- A Madison County coroner's jury has ruled the deaths of a 19-year-old East St. Louis woman, her 4-year-old cousin and her 7-month-old fetus a homicide.

Madison County Coroner Stephen Nonn said the inquest Wednesday determined that Anquiaette Parker and Cermen Toney Junior died of sharp and blunt force trauma to the chest.

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Parker and Toney disappeared in November 2005. Their remains were found last March in a cistern near Collinsville on property once owned by Kevin Reid.

Reid remains jailed without bond on two counts of first-degree murder, one count of intentional homicide of an unborn child and two counts of concealment of a homicidal death.

Madison County State's Attorney William Mudge says he'll seek the death penalty.

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