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Girls' Sleepover Killings Stump Okla. Cops

Posted Jun 11, 08 12:19 PM CDT in US,  Crime & Courts 

(Newser) – Police in rural Oklahoma have no suspects in Sunday's slaying of two girls aged 11 and 13, ABC News reports. The best friends were found with multiple gunshot wounds in a ditch by a country road. They had gone for a stroll after a sleepover at one girl's house. Police think a local person was behind the killings but are stuck for a motive.

"The reason we're looking at a local person is because of the location," the county sheriff explained. "It's unlikely someone just pulled off there," he said of the dirt road by a highway overpass where the bodies were found.

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In this photo provided by the family, Taylor Paschal-Placker is pictured in an undated photo. Taylor was found murdered Sunday night near her home in Weleetka, Okla.   (AP Photo/Ruth Kelly Studio via Placker Family)
Skyla Whitaker is pictured in an undated photo. The bodies of Skyla Whitaker, 11, and Taylor Paschal-Placker, 13, were found shot to death in rural Oklahoma on Sunday, June 8, 2008.   (AP Photo/Ruth Kelly Studio )
Joe Mosher, an uncle of Taylor Paschal-Placker, talks with a reporter near where his niece, Taylor, was found dead Sunday night, in Weleetka, Okla., Tuesday, June 10, 2008.   (AP Photo)
A memorial to Taylor Paschal-Placker and Skyla Whitaker is pictured in Weleetka, Okla., Tuesday, June 10, 2008, at the spot along a rural road where the girls' bodies were found Sunday night.   (AP Photo)
Dena Priddy holds a sign with photos of the two Weeletka girls, 13-year-old Taylor Paschal-Placker, right, and 11-year-old Skyla Whitaker who were murdered Sunday.   (AP Photo)
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