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Jessie Rankins at home with his wife, Connie, in Olney. She knows about her husband's past but believes "people change."
Tribune photo by Terrence Antonio James
Jessie Rankins at home with his wife, Connie, in Olney. She knows about her husband’s past but believes “people change.”
Chicago Tribune
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After Jessie Rankins and a friend abducted 5-year-old Eric Morse in 1994, dangled the screaming boy out a 14th-floor window at a public housing high-rise and dropped him to his death, he became the state’s youngest inmate, growing up in custody.