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long. Those belongings and DNA were used to identify the remains.
• There's no evidence the teens had been drinking. And mechanical tests on the car did not suggest any foul play. The headlight switch on the dashboard was on. The car was in high gear, and both girls were found in the front seat. Those factors point to an accident, Jackley said.
• Investigators would not speculate on exactly what happened, though one of the tires was damaged and the tread was thin, Jackley added.
• Ray Hofman, who knew the Miller family and searched for the teens during his career with the Vermillion Police Department, said the two probably lost track of the narrow, dusty road and accidentally drove into the creek.
• "Those boys were kicking up gravel at nighttime. Those girls couldn't see the bridge," he said.
• Seeing an old car embedded in a muddy bank wouldn't necessarily attract suspicion. The landscape is dotted with rusting vehicles, farm machines and other contraptions. Some were put there to curb erosion. Others were simply abandoned.
• Jackson's late mother, Adele, told people the loss of a daughter was especially hard on her husband, Oscar.
• "She said just about every night after supper, he'd go out driving around the countryside looking for that Studebaker," said Paul Buum, publisher of the local newspaper, the Alcester Union and Hudsonite.
• Oscar Jackson died at age 102, five days before the car was found. An obituary noted that his daughter's disappearance was his "greatest sadness."
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A man accused of stabbing a southeast South Dakota woman to death is being held on a $1 million cash-only bond.
• Forty-one-year-old John Senn made his initial court appearance Thursday in Canton. He is charged with alternate counts of premeditated murder, felony murder and second-degree murder, along with robbery and burglary.
• Sioux Falls Police say Senn on Wednesday stabbed 53-year-old Brenda Hansen. Authorities say Senn took prescription painkillers from Hansen and argued with the Sioux Falls woman before stabbing her.
• The Argus Leader reports that Senn's lawyers did not oppose the bond set by the presiding judge.
• Police say Senn and Hansen knew each other.
• This is the city's second homicide in 2014. Residents of the neighborhood where

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