Investigators said Tindall had been living in a group home for troubled youth just two doors away from Joan Green's home. Sometime Friday night, investigators said Tindall slipped out, breaking into a pizza parlor and Green's home.
They said he savagely beat the 72-year-old woman with a blunt stick and raped her. Green is from a large, loving family, many of whom were in court Tuesday as prosecutors laid out their plan to try Tindall as an adult on charges of murder, rape, breaking and entering and abuse of a corpse.
A court hearing is scheduled for later this week.
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