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RENO, Nev. (AP) A missing Oregon woman was found shot to death
in Nevada, but her two daughters remained missing, police said
Tuesday.
The body of 21-year-old Kimyala Henson was found near Wadsworth,
about 60 miles northeast of Reno, on April 29, according to the
Washoe County sheriff's office. A couple she had traveled with were
found dead in Florida and were suspected in the killing, police
said Tuesday.
"We don't have a motive at this point," Washoe County Sheriff
Dennis Balaam said. "Everybody that really has any information as
far as our investigation goes is dead."
Police said the couple's deaths were a murder-suicide.
Balaam said authorities searched 100 square miles around the
area where Henson's body was discovered but found no trace of
4-month-old Shausa Henson or 2-year-old Shaina Ashly Kirkpatrick.
Henson and her daughters set out April 4 with Christina Mayer,
24, and her boyfriend, Frank Oehring, 28. The two were found dead
April 20 at a highway rest area near Naples, Fla.
Florida authorities said Oehring, a Missouri fugitive wanted on
a charge of conspiracy to commit murder in the attempted
strangulation of his ex-wife, shot Mayer with a .22-caliber rifle
and then turned it on himself.
Florida law enforcement officials found Henson's wallet and
credit cards in a car parked at the rest area and traced the
transactions. Investigators suspect they were fraudulently signed
by Mayer.
Before she left Oregon, Henson told her family she planned to
travel with the couple to Alameda, Calif., to get a copy of her
birth certificate before heading north for a two-week trip in
Canada.
Investigators said that someone picked up a copy of Henson's
birth certificate in California. A copy of the certificate, ripped
in half, was found in a trash can at the Florida rest area.
On April 6, two of Henson's Visa cards were used in Nevada and
then continuously used for gas and food purchases during a trip
east.
Investigators determined that Mayer and Oehring had traveled to
Florida through Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas,
Louisiana and Mississippi.
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