All-out effort vowed to find girls' killer

OKEMAH, Okla., June 11 (UPI) -- Oklahoma authorities say they're going to use every resource they have to find the killers of two young girls shot down as they walked along a rural dirt road.

Ben Rosser, a special agent for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, told reporters Tuesday that a $14,000 reward for information leading to the killers of Skyla Jade Whittaker, 11, and Taylor Dawn Paschal-Placker, 13, has been established, the Tulsa (Okla.) World reported.

Rosser, however, admitted that there were no leads and no suspects, not even a "person of interest" so far in the investigation, adding that the girls, who were found Sunday on the outskirts of Weleetka, Okla., had not been sexually assaulted and saying no motive for the heinous crime had been established.

"We're making headway on our forensics evidence," Rosser told reporters, saying state crime lab experts were analyzing the ballistics of bullets along with DNA evidence taken from the scene, the newspaper said.

Authorities say both were shot several times each along the west side of a dirt road they regularly took for walks, only a quarter-mile from the 13-year-old's home, located about 70 miles south of Tulsa.