As photos showed how mutilated the body of Cherish Perrywinkle ... as the opening arguments and testimony in the trial of Donald James Smith, charged in the kidnapping, rape and strangulation ...

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Deviney sent a letter to the state attorney's office implicating Donald Smith -- currently awaiting trial in the abduction, rape and killing of 8-year-old Cherish Perrywinkle -- in another case.