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Sketch Released in Schoolgirl Sleepover Murders

Posted Jun 15, 08 8:51 CDT in Crime & Courts,  US 

(Newser) – Police have released a sketch of a “person of interest” being sought for questioning in the mysterious shooting deaths of two young schoolgirls that have stunned a small rural community in Oklahoma. The man was seen on the same isolated dirt road where the bullet-riddled bodies of two friends who had spent the night together at a sleepover were found in a ditch last week.

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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 this undated photo. The bodies of Skyla Whitaker, 11, and Taylor Paschal-Placker,13, were found shot to death in rural Oklahoma along a dirt road on June 8, 2008.   (AP Photo/Ruth Kelly Studio via Graham Public School)
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation has released this sketch of a "person of interest" investigators want to interview about the slayings of two girls in Oklahoma.   (AP Photo)
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