Months before Steven M. Manson was charged with raping his young stepdaughter and threatening two people with a shotgun, an Illinois resident who had lived across the street from the Manson family for years emailed Marion County Sheriff Gregg Alexander directly to warn him about the convicted sex offender living on Marion County Road 8054.…
How a registered sex offender groomed his stepdaughter from a girl with college dreams into a co-defendant, and why no one stopped it
Dezarea Kennedy wanted to be a nurse.
Her grandmother still has pictures all over the house. A girl who went to concerts with her aunt, went kayaking the next day, talked about…