Prosecutor: Plea Deal Reached With Hoax Suspect
Hearing Scheduled For Friday
POSTED: 8:48 pm EST March 30, 2004
UPDATED: 9:31 pm EST March 30, 2004
LEBANON, Ind. -- A woman accused of impersonating two Indiana residents' long-missing daughter has reached a tentative plea agreement with the state, Boone County Prosecutor Todd Meyer said Tuesday.
A guilty-plea hearing has been scheduled in a Boone County court Friday for Donna L. Walker, 36, of Topeka, Kan., Meyer said in a press release.Meyer declined to release details of the agreement, saying it needed to be filed with the court first.Walker (pictured, left), is accused of trying to convince the parents of Shannon Sherrill in 2003 that she was their daughter. Walker surrendered to Kansas authorities in July and was extradited to Indiana in September.
Sherrill (pictured, right) vanished at the age of 6 while she was playing outside her mother's Thorntown home in 1986.Walker faces 12 felony counts. She is being held in the Boone County Jail with bond set at $50,000.
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History Of Shannon Sherrill Case 
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Sherrill (pictured, right) vanished at the age of 6 while she was playing outside her mother's Thorntown home in 1986.Walker faces 12 felony counts. She is being held in the Boone County Jail with bond set at $50,000. Previous Stories:
- March 29, 2004: Possible Plea Deal Reached For Impersonation Suspect
- October 1, 2003: Officials Defy Ruling To Return Hoax Suspect
- September 25, 2003: Hoax Suspect Charged After Extradition
- September 23, 2003: Judge Approves Extradition Of Hoax Suspect
- September 9, 2003: Hoax Suspect To Get Another Mental Evaluation
- August 7, 2003: Indiana Officials Ask Kansas To Extradite Hoax Suspect
- August 7, 2003: Prosecutor Believes Walker Playing Another Hoax
- August 5, 2003: Lawyer To Seek Lower Bail For Missing-Child Hoax Suspect
- August 1, 2003: Walker Suspected Of Playing Adoption Hoax On Indy Family
- August 1, 2003: Indiana Officials Confident Walker Will Be Extradited
- August 1, 2003: Hoax Suspect's Bond Set At $100,000
- August 1, 2003: Hoax Suspect Surrenders In Kansas
- July 31, 2003: Suspect In Sherrill Hoax May Have Called After Announcement
- July 31, 2003: Father On Hoax: I Lost Daughter All Over Again
- July 31, 2003: Police: Claim In Missing-Person Case Was Hoax
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