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Rewards could advance triple homicide investigation

Rewards could advance triple homicide investigation

Photo: Contributed/FBI


Springfield, IL (CAPITOL CITY NOW) – A pair of rewards has been posted in connection with a triple homicide in the Cabbage Patch neighborhood of unincorporated Springfield Oct. 9.

The FBI will give you $25,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction. Sangamon and Menard County Crime Stoppers will give you up to $10,000 for information leading to an arrest.

Cash Russell, 9, and two adults were found dead in a home on Hoover Street.

“I’m asking our community to come together and help us find justice for Cash, a sweet, gentle, and loving child whose life was taken far too soon,” the boy’s mother, Dorothy Jackson, said in a statement in the FBI’s news release. “Cash was full of light, imagination and kindness. Cash loved to sing and loved soccer. He was always looking out for his brothers, always making sure everyone felt safe and loved. His favorite color was green. He could spend hours creating slime, building worlds with blocks, or getting lost in his favorite video games. He was simply a child; innocent, bright, and full of dreams.”

“Justice for the victims depends on all of us,” said Sangamon County Sheriff Paula Crouch in the same statement. “Our investigators are working tirelessly, and we need the community’s help

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