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Man charged in deaths of 2 Missouri sisters

By Glenn E. Rice and Sangeeta Shastry, McClatchy Newspapers –

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Platte County, Mo., authorities Monday charged Clifford D. Miller of Trimble, Mo., with the methamphetamine-fueled slaying of two sisters whose bodies were found in a field Sunday after they disappeared from their home in Edgerton, Mo.

The 31-year-old Miller faces two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of the two women he is accused of suffocating when his attempt at a tryst went wrong. His bond was set at $500,000.

A conviction would carry a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd noted he could also seek the death penalty against Miller.

Authorities also confirmed the identities of the victims as Britny Haarup, 19, and Ashley Key, 22. Their bodies were discovered Sunday in southwest Clinton County.

Zahnd said Miller last Friday smoked methamphetamine and went to the home where the women lived. The murder charges contend Miller admitted going to the home with the intention of having sex with the Haarup, although the two had no previously sexual relationship.

He entered the unlocked home unannounced and found Key sleeping on the couch, the charges state. Key awakened and confronted Miller, the charges allege, and he punched her and then grabbed an object from a table and struck her with it.

Miller, the charges allege, then smothered her until she stopped moving. The charges allege Miller then entered Haarup’s bedroom with his mind set on a sexual assault struck her with a large stick and then suffocated her with a pillow when she began to scream.

Before leaving the home, the charges contend, Miller smoked more methamphetamine and then took the women’s bodies in a Dodge Ram pickup truck and dumped them near County Line Road in Edgerton. Police later found that truck near Trimble.

Authorities say they found Miller at his girlfriend’s residence in Parkville.

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