at a news conference Thursday that police responded to a report in early December of skeletal remains in a wooded area along Illinois 111.

Madison County authorities have identified the remains of a former East St. Louis woman missing for 10 years and filed murder charges against a man now in prison on a drug conviction.

The accused, Roger D. Sutton Jr., 55, who has lived in Pontoon Beach and Alton, was due to be released from Centralia Correctional Center on Feb. 14, according to the Illinois Department of Corrections database.

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