Hi, KP.
I think the blue sidebar tells the story, especially reading between the lines. It's very difficult to make a case stick after 13 years (witnesses have died, moved, or forgotten things, for example), plus his mental history would make it relatively easy to convince a jury he was guilty of second-degree murder (acting on impulse), rather than first. So they made a plea bargain for second off the bat, saving the expense of a trial...
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The Chicago Sun Times is reporting today that David E. Maust, who was convicted of murdering a 15 year old boy in 1981, was released from prison in 1998. He served less than 15 years. Now, he has confessed to killing another teen, and is suspected of killing at least two others.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-bodies12.html

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