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Jury reads cellphone texts
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With a cellphone text that read “wake up sleeping beauty,” a Kansas man whom prosecutors say was obsessed with a 14-year-old cheerleader launched a torrent of messages in July 2010 that ended after the girl’s death the following month, according to evidence at his trial Wednesday.Several texts were projected onto a courtroom screen during the fifth day of testimony in the capital murder trial of Adam Longoria. The 38-year-old man from Great Bend is accused in the death of Alicia DeBolt, whose charred body was found at the asphalt plant where Longoria worked.Texting between Longoria and DeBolt began on July 18, 2010, the morning after they met at a party. It ended the night the teen disappeared.Prosecutors contend that from 10:32 a.m. to 7:48 p.m. that first day, 55 text messages were exchanged between Longoria and the girl.Text messages from phones linked to Longoria, DeBolt, and Longoria’s former girlfriend Eva Brown were combined and arranged on a spreadsheet.