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Man who raped, murdered young girl dies in prison
This didn’t happen in Dayton but Jessica Lunsford has family in Springfield and Warren County and this story gripped the country four years ago:
The Associated Press is reporting that the man who kidnapped, raped and buried alive 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford in 2005 died today, Sept. 30, of cancer.
John Evander Couey was removed from his prison cell and taken to a Jacksonville hospital shortly before his death, according to a Florida Department of Corrections spokeswoman.
Lunsford, whose mother lives in Warren County and has family in Springfield was kidnapped and raped by Couey, put in a trash bag and buried alive in Citrus County Florida in October 2005. Couey was sentenced to death for the brutal murder in 2007.
Travis Lunsford, 22, of Springfield, was 18 when his cousin was murdered and said the incidents are still too painful to talk about.
“I wish he could have suffered like she did,” Travis said. “He can’t touch another child like that again and that’s a good thing.”
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