This undated handout photo provided by the Arlington County, Va. Police Department shows Jorge Torrez. An Illinois grandfather shook in the witness chair as he told jurors about discovering his 8-year-old granddaughter and her best friend dead from stab wounds in a park where they had been playing, an attack prosecutors say was committed by an ex-Marine now on trial for his life. A jury in U.S. District Court Tuesday, April 22, 2014, heard testimony linking the 2005 slayings of 8-year-old Laura Hobbs and 9-year-old Krystal Tobias, to Jorge Torrez, a neighbor of the girls in their hometown of Zion, Ill., about an hour north of Chicago. (AP Photo/Arlington County, Va. Police Department)
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