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Murders of Two College Students Mystify Police in Three States
Thursday, March 06, 2008
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Detectives in three states on Thursday were hunting for clues in the mysterious shooting murders a day apart of two college coeds from Georgia.
Police in Auburn, Ala., said Thursday afternoon they are pursuing promising leads as they try to identify who killed 18-year-old Auburn University freshman Lauren A. Burk of Marietta on Tuesday night near campus.
The announcement came shortly after officials at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill said town police had identified the young woman found dead Wednesday near the campus as 22-year-old Eve Marie Carson, the popular president of UNC's student body.
Auburn police said Thursday that they hadn't turned up any evidence linking the two killings but were looking into a possible connection.
"I don't have anything at this point to indicate that this is related," Auburn Assistant Chief of Police Tom Dawson said at a news conference. "I've had my investigators contact authorities there (Chapel Hill), but there's nothing to connect the two cases."
Police: Mysterious Death of Auburn University Freshman a Homicide
Local media have reported that police are interviewing witnesses to the crime, as well as a few "persons of interest."
Burk was found with a single gunshot wound to the head around 9 p.m. Tuesday on Alabama Highway 147, three miles off campus. Police said her Honda Civic was discovered 20 minutes later engulfed in flames at the campus.
Burk was taken to the hospital, where she died Tuesday night.
Police haven't said whether Burk said anything before she died that could help them identify her killer
Carson, of Athens, Ga., died from multiple bullet wounds, including one to the head. After responding to reports of gunfire, police discovered Carson lying dead in an intersection in a Chapel Hill residential neighborhood close to the university.
Town authorities and school officials identified her body on Thursday. Police had no suspects and hadn't made any arrests, but they were looking for her car.
The communities of Marietta and Athens are about 70 miles apart.
Thursday, March 06, 2008
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,335803,00.html
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Detectives in three states on Thursday were hunting for clues in the mysterious shooting murders a day apart of two college coeds from Georgia.
Police in Auburn, Ala., said Thursday afternoon they are pursuing promising leads as they try to identify who killed 18-year-old Auburn University freshman Lauren A. Burk of Marietta on Tuesday night near campus.
The announcement came shortly after officials at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill said town police had identified the young woman found dead Wednesday near the campus as 22-year-old Eve Marie Carson, the popular president of UNC's student body.
Auburn police said Thursday that they hadn't turned up any evidence linking the two killings but were looking into a possible connection.
"I don't have anything at this point to indicate that this is related," Auburn Assistant Chief of Police Tom Dawson said at a news conference. "I've had my investigators contact authorities there (Chapel Hill), but there's nothing to connect the two cases."
Police: Mysterious Death of Auburn University Freshman a Homicide
Local media have reported that police are interviewing witnesses to the crime, as well as a few "persons of interest."
Burk was found with a single gunshot wound to the head around 9 p.m. Tuesday on Alabama Highway 147, three miles off campus. Police said her Honda Civic was discovered 20 minutes later engulfed in flames at the campus.
Burk was taken to the hospital, where she died Tuesday night.
Police haven't said whether Burk said anything before she died that could help them identify her killer
Carson, of Athens, Ga., died from multiple bullet wounds, including one to the head. After responding to reports of gunfire, police discovered Carson lying dead in an intersection in a Chapel Hill residential neighborhood close to the university.
Town authorities and school officials identified her body on Thursday. Police had no suspects and hadn't made any arrests, but they were looking for her car.
The communities of Marietta and Athens are about 70 miles apart.