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Police suspend search for body of boy slain by serial killer in 1968

Oct. 10, 2008
Acting on new information, investigators had been excavating a site near a Moorpark freeway offramp, looking for the remains of Roger Dale Madison. Los Angeles police suspended the search today for the body of a 16-year-old boy who was stabbed to death by a child serial killer in 1968 and...
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler