Illinois nurse took in disabled teen, then tortured and killed her, police say.
Then in September authorities received information that helped them uncover her identity.
Johnson, who was raised in Illinois, was 18 when she became homeless after her mother died. The teen's father and brother were already dead, and she had never met her sister. "LaRoche was verbally and emotionally cruel to Peggy, at times screaming at her like an animal," the complaint states. Schmaling told reporters at the news conference that the abuse Johnson endured during the last five years of her life"is something that none of us will ever forget."
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