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Cops: Ex-Queens woman may have killed adoptee

Florida police say they believe a former Queens woman charged in an adoption scam may have killed one of the 11 children she took into her care.

Shane Graham, 19, who has autism, Down syndrome and sickle cell anemia, has not been seen in almost eight years, since the woman who adopted him, Judith Leekin, took him from their Port St. Lucie, Fla., home and returned without him, police said...

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