Georgia man returned to N.H. to face murder charges
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Posted 7:20AM on Friday, January 24, 2003
CONCORD, N.H. - A Georgia man accused of killing a New Hampshire infant almost 20 years ago was due in court Friday. <br>
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George Knickerbocker had been a suspect in the death of 6-week-old Adam Robbins when the baby died in 1983 but wasn't charged until last December, when he was arrested in Rossville, Ga. <br>
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Authorities reopened the investigation in 1997, after the baby's mother wrote to prosecutors about the case. She later told police that Knickerbocker confessed that he ``lost it'' and injured the child. <br>
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Knickerbocker, who called himself Nicky Robbins at the time, was dating the baby's mother. Court documents unsealed Thursday allege that Knickerbocker initially told police that the baby's two-year-old brother hit the infant, then blamed the death on the boy's mother. <br>
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Knickerbocker will be arraigned in Concord District Court.