Missouri judge upgrades charges to first-degree murder for drifter's death

Wednesday, January 13, 2010 | 4:57 p.m. CST; updated 10:05 p.m. CST, Wednesday, January 13, 2010

MEXICO, Mo. — A judge has agreed to charge a northeast Missouri truck driver and his son with first-degree murder in the suffocation death of a 20-year-old drifter.

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