A Blue Island man accused of killing three teenagers and raping a fourth was formally charged with their murders Monday.
Sonny Pierce, 27, is charged in the August 2010 sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl. DNA collected during that investigation linked him to the murders of two other teens, police said. A computer seized during those investigations connected him, prosecutors said, to a third victim whose body has not been found.
Pierce was indicted Monday with three counts of first-degree murder and an arraignment date was set for May 25, Cook County state's attorney's office spokesman Andy Conklin said.
Pierce was ordered held without bail April 20.
Kimika Coleman, 18, of Chicago, was found strangled in an alley in Blue Island; Kiara Windom, of Harvey, 18, also strangled, was found in an alley on Chicago's Southeast Side.
Pierce also is accused of killing Mariah Edwards, 17, whose lifeless body, prosecutors say, appears in a sex tape found on Pierce's computer. Edwards' body has not been found.
Pierce met his victims on phone chatlines or the Internet and would sexually assault them before killing them, authorities said.
Attorney Nicholas Albukerk, who represents Pierce on the sexual assault charges, asked a Cook County judge on April 28 to put Pierce into protective custody while he's being held in the jail. The request was granted by that afternoon, sheriff's spokeswoman Liane Jackson said.
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