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Karen Schweitzer holds a teddy bear made from clothing belonging to her sister, and her husband Kurt's hand, left, as DuPage County States Attorney Joseph E. Birkett addresses the media on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009, in Wheaton, Ill., after a jury said that convicted killer Brian Dugan should be executed for the 1983 kidnapping, rape and murder of 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico in Naperville, Ill. Dugan's second murder victim was Donna Kay Schnorr, Karens Schweitzers sister. Dugan was serving a life sentence without parole for Schnorr's 1984 murder.