Convicted child-killer arrested again

WINAMAC, Ind. – A man who spent 40 years in prison for killing a 6-year-old girl and her 3-year-old brother while he was a teenager has been charged with offering $50 to a boy to go with him to a nearby beach to pose for pictures.\nRichard Allen Dobeski, 59, was arrested Aug. 31, exactly 43 years to the day he was sentenced to two life sentences for murder. He was arrested after authorities searched his mobile home in Westville, Pulaski County Prosecutor Stacey L. Mrak said.\nDobeski is charged with felony counts of attempted criminal confinement and enticing a child. The age of the boy has not been released. The incident occurred near Monterey, about 50 miles south of South Bend.\nHe was being held Thursday in the Pulaski County Jail under $100,000 bond.\nDobeski was 16 in 1964 when he was convicted in the slayings of 3-year-old Cary Robert Johnston and his sister, Shawn Elizabeth Johnston, 6, of Long Beach. He received two life sentences.\nThe children were found in a crawl space underneath Dobeski’s home in Long Beach, just east of Michigan City.\nIn 1984, during an appeal, Dobeski agreed to a deal that reduced the life sentence to two 40-year terms. The murdered children’s parents, who had moved from the Michigan City area, were unaware Dobeski had been granted a sentence modification.\nThe Indiana Supreme Court ruled in November 2000 that Dobeski’s new sentencing arrangement must stand, allowing him to be eligible for parole. Dobeski was released from prison in 2003.