New Charges, Details in Sidnee Stephens Case

</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[Amended complaints filed Wednesday by Perry County States Attorney David Stanton now charge the three defendants in the case with kidnapping Pinckneyville teen Sidnee Stephens from her home on or about July 18 or 19, 2010.

The state's attorney alleges in the amended complaints that defendants Carl Dane, Robbie Mueller and James Glazier "knowingly, by use of force carried Signee Stephens from her home (at 401 West Water Street) to the Beaucoup Creek Bridge on Cudgetown Road, Pinckneyville, Perry County, Illinois with the intent to secretly confine her against her will."

Stephens' body was found by a fisherman in the creek shortly after the alleged murder.

Three have been charged in the death and a stepsister has been charged with concealment of the death.

All defendants are now charged with amended wording throughout the complaints.

All are charged with first degree murder in that they "shot Sidnee Stephens with a firearm or strangled her, causing her death, aggravated kidnapping, home invasion, residential burglary and concealment of a homicidal death.

The residential burglary charge says the three "knowingly and without authority, entered into the dwelling place of Sidnee Stephens at 401 West Water Street with the intent to commit therein the felony aggravated kidnapping."

The three are charged with concealment of a homicidal in that the three "with knowledge that Sidnee Stephens had died by homicidal means, concealed the death of Sidnee Stephens by attaching a concrete block to the body of Sidnee Stephens with a strap and positioning the body of Sidnee Stephens under the Beaucoup Creek Bridge on Cudgetown Road in Pinckneyville.