(CHICAGO TRIBUNE) Polly Sykes doesn't know what happened to her 15-year-old son. All she knows is that his body was found burned beyond recognition in the trash in a West Side alley over the weekend.
After Demetrius Griffin Jr. missed his curfew Friday night, and after Sykes learned that police had discovered a burned body about 1:30 a.m. Saturday in the 5500 block of West Cortez Street, Sykes was struck with the inexplicable certainty that mothers sometimes have about their children — a sinking feeling that the body was Demetrius'.
She was right.
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