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Slain Missouri girl willingly went with suspect, police say 07/28/2002 From Wire Reports VALLEY PARK, Mo. - Cassandra Williamson, 6, barefoot and dressed only in her nightgown, was seen by witnesses riding piggyback on a man down the street to her death Friday morning, said St. Louis County Police Chief Ron Battelle on Saturday. "She went willingly," he said. St. Louis County has charged Johnny A. Johnson, 24, with first-degree murder, armed criminal action and attempted forcible rape in Friday's killing of the girl known as "Casey," who vanished from the home where Mr. Johnson also had spent the...

<p>VALLEY PARK, Mo. — St. Louis-area authorities have found the dead body of a missing 6-year-old St. Louis area girl, who disappeared while she was eating breakfast Friday morning.</p> <p>The body of little Cassandra Williamson was found on the grounds of an abandoned glass factory and was covered in debris. Police said in a news conference Friday afternoon that they'd arrested Johnny Johnson, the homeless man who was staying with her family when she vanished from the kitchen that morning.</p>

<p>VALLEY PARK, Missouri (CNN) -- Authorities were searching Friday for a 6-year-old girl who police say was abducted from her family's home.</p> <p>Cassandra "Casey" Williamson was last seen inside her house around 7 a.m. (8 a.m. EDT) by her parents and was reported missing half an hour later, said Sgt. Bob Frohne of the St. Louis County Police Department. She was wearing a white nightgown, he said.</p>