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STATE NEWS

Apparent voodoo shrine found near bodies

12:14 PM CST on Thursday, February 8, 2007

From Staff Reports

Police are investigating whether an apparent voodoo shrine found 200 yards from the bodies of a missing couple has anything to do with their deaths.

The shrine was found near Interstate 45 and Dowdy Ferry Road, close to the area where the bodies of Linoshka Torres and Luis Campos were abandoned.

Police said Wednesday that they had no evidence that the shrine was linked to the killings. The shrine was found on the opposite end of a bridge from the bodies, and bodies have been found abandoned in the area of I-45 and Dowdy Ferry Road before.

"I've been doing this for 20 years, and that's the first voodoo shrine that I've found," Dallas police Sgt. Gary Kirkpatrick said. "There were some interesting things inside the shrine."

The objects included a three-legged pot that had chicken bones, feathers, a wooden statue and what appeared to be a female human skull inside.

The bodies of Torres, 18, and Campos, 20, were found last week, 27 days after the two vanished from a central Oak Cliff driveway. Police have arrested two men in connection with their deaths and are looking for a third.

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