Thursday Jan 14 | Missourian
Missouri judge upgrades charges to first-degree murder for drifter's death
A judge has agreed to charge a northeast Missouri truck driver and his son with first-degree murder in the suffocation death of a 20-year-old drifter.
Sheriff identifies body found in tractor-trailer
The death of a man found in a tractor-trailer in eastern Missouri has been ruled a homicide.
Son of truck driver also facing charges
Laddonia -- The 19-year-old son of an eastern Missouri truck driver arrested after a body was found in a tractor-trailer also has been arrested.

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