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Two confessed teenage killers headed to Kansas for trial
In Grand Junction Colorado two AWOL soldiers James Lathan and Ronald York admitted killing seven people across five states. They traveled from Salt Lake City to Sharon Springs Kansas for arraignment on charges tied to the slaying of Oita Ziegler, a Union Pacific roadmaster. Contained in the jail, authorities installed higher security to hold them through the preliminary hearing.
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