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Show Wmm Mcred A 66-year-old LDS missionary mis-sionary from Kaysville and her woman companion were brutally murdered Friday night in North Charleston, South Carolina. THE BADLY battered bodies of the two women missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints were found in a parked car at a parking lot of a large shopping center. Church officials identified the victims as Elizabeth W. King, 66, of Kaysville, and Jane Ruth Cannell Teuscher, ' 65, of Fish Haven, Idaho. NORTH Charleston police said both victims had been savagely beaten about the head and shot several times. Police said it did not appear that the women had been sexually molested. One police official termed the slayings "the work of a psychopath." He said the two may have been slain at another site and left in the car parked in the parking lot of the shopping center. THE FEMALE missionaries mis-sionaries reportedly lived about 30 miles away in Moncks Corner. Investigating officers said the women kept a "log book" of where they worked and happenings that occurred and that they (police) were canvassing can-vassing the area for persons listed in the book who may have recently seen them alive and for other clues in the slayings. A SECURITY guard at the 100-store complex told inves tigating officers that he saw the car, bearing Idaho license plates, about 8:30 a.m. Saturday Sa-turday and decided to look inside. He said he saw one body (Mrs. King) on the floor of the back seat, wedged between the front and back seats. The body of Mrs. Teuscher was later found in the trunk of the car. CHURCH OFFICIALS related that Mrs. King had been in the area only about one month while Mrs. Teuscher had been serving in the area for about five months. |