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Prosecutors: Mom took 6-year-old son's lifeless body on train

A Round Lake Beach, Ill., woman charged with murder in the death of her 6-year-old son in July apparently took the child's body on the train to Chicago after his death, a Lake County prosecutor said Tuesday in Lake County bond court.

Jamie Jones, 29, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and concealment of a homicide, and Judge George Strickland set her bail

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