Simple Car Accident Explains Deaths of Girls Missing 42 Years [View all]

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/simple-car-accident-explains-deaths-girls-missing-42-years-n81246

BY M. ALEX JOHNSON
With four simple words — "Our journey is done" — relatives Tuesday put to rest decades of conjecture and anxiety over what really happened to two South Dakota teenagers who vanished 43 years ago.


Pamella Jackson, left, and Cheryl Miller, both 17, disappeared in May 1971 as they were driving to a party near Elk Point, S.D.
First published April 15th 2014, 4:28 pm

The families of Pamella Jackson and Cheryl Miller, who were both 17 at the time they disappeared, issued that one-sentence reaction after state officials confirmed that the girls were the ones whose bodies were found last year in a car at the bottom of a creek.

They died after a roadway accident that sent their 1960 Studebaker plunging into Brule Creek near the town of Elk Point on May 29, 1971, South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley said at a news conference in Elk Point on Tuesday.


The submerged car was found in Brule Creek in South Dakota in September 2013.

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