SYCAMORE, Ill. (WTVO) — A 31-year-old sex offender who killed a 15-year-old girl and hid her body in a DeKalb dumpster has been sentenced to 52 years in prison.

Earlier this year, Timothy Doll, 31, pleaded guilty to killing Gracie Sasso-Cleveland in 2023.

According to a GoFundMe, Sasso had “just found out the man she thought she was dating was a 29-year-old sex offender with a lengthy rap sheet” shortly before she went missing on May 4th, 2023.

Phone records indicated that she had been at an address in the 500 block of College Avenue.

Her body was found in that area on Sunday, May 7th.

Police said on May 4th, Doll and Sasso argued, after which point he suffocated her with a pillow. He then put her body in a dumpster, police said.

The coroner determined asphyxiation was the cause of h

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