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Bodies of mother, daughter in WV cold case found [Video]

Ricky Lafferty expressed a mix of emotions after the bodies of his daughter, Alex Carter, and her mother, Susan, both of whom had been missing for 24 years, were found buried in a yard in West Virginia.”Finally we’re going to bring my baby home,” said Lafferty.He described his feelings as a mixture of, “Sadness. Happiness. Relief. Just a feeling of melancholy. You’re happy they found her but sad about the circumstances of her not being alive.”The bodies were found in the yard of Larry Webb, a man Lafferty had always suspected. Webb died of a medical episode in the Mt. Olive Correctional Complex hours before the bodies were discovered, a coincidence described as bizarre by Raleigh County Prosecuting Attorney Ben Hatfield.Webb had confessed to shooting Susan during an argument over missing money earlier in the month. He told investigators that he had to kill Alex too, to cover up his …

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