The Nation - News from July 13, 1989
An Illinois woman pleaded innocent to murder charges in her 6-week-old daughter’s suffocation death nearly three years after her first baby girl died under almost identical circumstances. Circuit Judge Edward Ferguson told Paula Sims she could be sentenced to death if convicted of two first-degree murder charges in the death of daughter Heather Lee, whose body was found in a trash can May 3. Sims, 30, told authorities that masked gunmen abducted Heather and 13-day-old Loralei Marie, who died in 1986. Sims has already been accused of hiding the babies’ deaths and lying to investigators.
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