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The couple accused of killing 10-year-old Rebekah Baptiste will appear in court Thursday, as new details are emerging about the victim’s final weeks.

Richard Baptiste, Rebekah's father, and his girlfriend, Anicia Woods, are charged with first-degree murder. They lived with Rebekah and her two siblings in a remote yurt-style tent on a 28,000-acre property known as River Meadows Ranch in Apache County.

What they're saying:

Neighbors told police that they saw Rebekah alive for the last time just a few weeks before her death.

Mary Stanley, a 25-year resident of the ranch, said she led a search party for the girl the first two times she ran away from home. The last time Stanley saw Rebekah, she described the girl as "quiet, scared, tiny."

Stanley’s son, Andrew, found Rebekah

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