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Security cameras failed to record the execution-style slayings of three college students in a schoolyard, so investigators are pleading for someone step up with clues to the vicious crime.

"I don't believe there were a lot of witnesses, but people who do these things tend to talk," said Essex County prosecutor Paula Dow. "I don't believe they kept silent, and we're hoping anyone with any information, however tangential, will come forward."

Investigators have one key witness, the sole survivor of the attack, who was shot in the head and left about 30 feet from her brother and two friends. The three were forced to kneel against a wall behind an elementary school and shot at close range Saturday night. Read full article »

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