Placker

The bodies of 11-year-old Skyla Whitaker and 13-year-old Taylor Paschal-Placker were found Sunday afternoon by one of their grandfathers near their hometown of Weleetka, just east of Oklahoma City.

CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2008 2008

The girls were found on a county road by Paschal-Placker ` s grandfather.

CNN Transcript Jun 12, 2008 2008

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thirteen-year-old Taylor Pascal Placker (ph) hosted a sleep-over with her best friend, eleven-year-old Skyla Whitaker (ph), the two deciding to play in a rural area near their home, taking a commonly traveled dirt road to get there.

CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2008 2008

The arrests come more than three years after family members discovered the girls along an unpaved road less than a half-mile from Placker's home.

The Seattle Times 2011

Okfuskee County prosecutors charged Kevin Sweat, 25, with first-degree murder in the deaths of Taylor Placker, 13, and Skyla Whitaker, 11, two friends who were found shot multiple times in June 2008.

The Seattle Times 2011

Kevin Sweat, 25, who was already in custody in connection with another killing, was charged in the June 2008 deaths of Taylor Placker, 13, and Skyla Whitaker, 11.

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The charges come more than three years after family members discovered the girls along an unpaved road less than a half-mile from Placker's home.

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The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation will have a news conference at 10 a.m. Tuesday to give an update on its two-year investigation into the Taylor Paschal-Placker and Skyla Jade

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The news conference will be at the scene of the killings in Weleetka, and both the Placker and Whitaker families are expected to be there.

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"I think they're out there thy just need to come forward someone knows and we need that closure," Placker said.

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