Simple Car Accident Explains Deaths of Girls Missing 42 Years

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1. Jail house snitch tried to pin it on someone

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ELK POINT, S.D. -- Aloysius Black Crow pleaded guilty to two counts of perjury Thursday in Union County Circuit Court.

Black Crow, 37, admitted lying to a Union County grand jury on May 24, 2007, and again on Jan. 17. He told the grand jury that the voice on a jailhouse tape he made secretly as an informant was that of David Lee Lykken discussing his alleged role in the death of two 17-year-old girls, Cheryl Miller and Pamella Jackson, both of Vermillion, S.D., nearly 37 years ago.

Lykken, 53, was charged recently with the girls' murders in what had been a cold case, based at least in part on the audio tape evidence. Their bodies have never been found.

Attorney General Larry Long said last month it had been discovered that Black Crow had tape recorded a conversation between himself and another inmate who was pretending to be Lykken confessing to the murders. Long filed a motion to dismiss the murder charges, but vowed to continue the investigation.

Lykken will remain in prison, where he has been serving a 227-year sentence since 1990 for raping and kidnapping an ex-girlfriend in Clay County.

Circuit Judge Arthur L. Rusch did not set a date Thursday for Black Crow's sentencing.