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LI murderer of girl paroled; family still wonders why

For the family of a little girl murdered by her aunt a quarter century ago, the question is as unanswerable now as it was on the day Kathleen Mary Conway bound and suffocated 5-year-old Sherrie Johnston.

Why?

"If we'd had more of that, 'OK, this is why she did it,' . . . maybe things would have been a little different," said John Johnston, Sherrie's older brother. Now 36 years old...

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