New Charges In 1980 Death Of Child

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Oct 29, 2008 10:15PM

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart announced that a new first-degree murder charge has been filed in the 1980 death of Edwin Gulbransen, then 11-years-old. Originally, Ronald Rice had been charged with the accidental hit-and-run death of Edwin, who had been missing for four days and whose body was found in a forest preserve. Rice then came forward and claimed he had accidentally hit Edwin with his car and dumped the body after panicking; Rice served six months for the accident. The new charges, however, allege that it was no accident, but that Rice hit Edwin on purpose, kidnapped him, sexually assaulted him, and then killed him. Good Lord. Because there's obviously not enough heinous news of bad things happening to children recently. Rice is currently serving a 60-year sentence stemming from a 1982 sexual assault of another boy.