81.   He denied actually killing the girl, however.

82.   He is accused of kidnapping and killing four girls, including Russo, eight-year-old daughter Melissa.

83.   He told prison inmates he killed the girl by accidentally giving her an overdose of a sedative, prosecutors said.

84.   Heavy rains swelled rivers in central Mexico and triggered a mud slide in Mexico City on Monday, killing one girl and injuring three people, local media reported.

85.   Hussein cut short a visit to Spain and rushed home Thursday, hours after a Jordanian soldier shot and killed the girls.

86.   In arguing for capital punishment, the prosecutor emphasized the especially cruel ways Ross killed the girls.

87.   In another checkpoint shooting Monday, a Palestinian girl was killed when she ran toward an army checkpoint near Tulkarem, brandishing a knife, the army said.

88.   In the southern village of Goity, two teen-age girls were killed in shelling, local administration chief Shirvani Yasayev said, according to Interfax.

89.   International peace verifiers said an ethnic Albanian girl was killed in the town of Podujevo by a sniper in the Christmas Eve offensive.

90.   Investigating magistrate Alain Meister said the women, originally from Peru, admitted killing the girl because they believed she was bewitched.