Illinois sex offender on probation allegedly suffocates 15-year-old, throws body in dumpster
Timothy Doll, a registered sex offender, has been charged with murder in the death of a teenager he was allegedly 'dating'
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A 29-year-old sex offender on probation, who was allegedly dating a 15-year-old girl, suffocated her with a pillow before throwing her body in to a dumpster, Illinois authorities said.
The DeKalb Police Department said Timothy Doll was in "a dating relationship" with the high school victim, Gracie Sasso-Cleveland.
Sasso-Cleveland's parents notified police after they were unable to find their daughter on Thursday, May 4.
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Police say that her cell phone records indicated she had been at the home of a registered sex offender in DeKalb, Illinois.
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On Sunday, authorities tracked the teen's cell phone to a dumpster near a local university where they found her body. After obtaining search warrants, police said evidence led them to detain Doll.
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Doll was formally charged on Monday, May 8, with two counts of first-degree murder, aggravated criminal sex abuse, concealment of a homicide, aggravated domestic battery, two counts of obstruction of justice, unlawful restraint and unlawful communication by a child sex offender.
The coroner's office ruled that the teen's cause of death was asphyxiation, or suffocation, with police saying Doll killed her with a pillow after they got into an argument.
"He held the victim down and suffocated her with a pillow until she lost consciousness, to which she did not recover," police said in a press release. "He later put her body in the dumpster, removed her personal items from his apartment and threw her phone away in the garbage at another location."
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According to the Illinois sex offender registry, Doll was on probation for child sex crimes with a 14-year-old when Sasso-Cleveland was killed.
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The DeKalb Police Department reminded families to always be aware of their children's whereabouts and who they are with.
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Police also said there is no need to wait a certain amount of time before reporting a child is missing.