For four decades, the slayings of two girls was a mystery. Now, police have arrested two men in the cold case

Source: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-cold-case-two-girls-20160913-snap-story.html

On mid-morning 12^th November 1973, Valerie Janice Lane(12) and Doris Karen Derryberry (13), from Olivehurst were reported missing. A day before, they went to a mall in the nearby town of Linda. They did not return to home. Consequently, Valerie’s mother reported to the police. Several hours later, their bodies were found along a dirt road near Camp Far West lake outside of wheatland by a man who had been target shooting.

More than 60 interviews had been done to find the answer of this case. In 2014, Yuba County sheriff’s detectives reviewed the case and sent crime scene evidence to the California Department of Justice Bureau of Forensic Service for testing. They got DNA evidence as the result. From that evidence, eventually they arrested Larry Don Patterson (65) and William Lloyd Harbour(65), the suspects  for this case, in Oklahoma and Yuba County.

I am very sorry for Valeri and Doris’ families. More than 4 decades, they lost their family’ members in the murder case, but the authorities could not find people who were responsible for their death. Now, the suspects were arrested. The authorities have to give them the worth punishment since they did a brutal crime. The detectives and the authorities have finished their job very well. Although this case needed a very long time to be finished, they never gave up. The never closed this case until they succeeded.