I just assumed that your state had the death penalty, I have never lived in a state that did'nt, and took it for granted.
In that case I hope they put him in the general population, but I doubt it. He will be in PC until he is released or dies. But we can always hope he tries to be a Dahmer and refuses segregation.
They now have two under arrest - one is the boyfriend of the girl's sister, another is apparently a vagrant. The local news had video of him standing with the family a day or two after she disappeared, holding a big photo of her. As a friend mentioned today, the main reason someone would stab a child in a robbery like that would be because she could easily identify him... that was it.
Still infuriating that parents living in subsidized housing with 8 kids would buy a least $1-2K of jewelry for the kid and let her wear to school and around the neighborhood (not one of the safest, at least re property crime, in the area).