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Associated Press - August 27, 2009 5:45 PM ET
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - Authorities in Montgomery County are investigating the slayings of 2 Virginia Tech students found in the Jefferson National Forest.
Montgomery Sheriff's Lt. Brian Wright says 19-year-old David Lee Metzler of Lynchburg and 18-year-old Heidi Lynn Childs of Forest were found by a passerby around 8 a.m. Thursday morning at the Caldwell Fields campgrounds. Both appear to have been shot, but Wright wouldn't say how many times or where.
Wright says Metzler's body was found inside a car and Childs was found outside. Both were taken to the medical examiner's office in Roanoke for autopsies.
The deaths are being considered a double homicide. A suspect has not been identified.
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