Britny Haarup, 19, and Ashley Key, 22, Found Deceased 7/15/12

Authorities continue search for 2 Missouri sisters

July 15, 2012 03:27 PM EST

EDGERTON, Mo. — Authorities continued to search Sunday for two sisters who disappeared from a western Missouri home, leaving behind two young children, their purses and a cellphone.

Britny Haarup, 19, and Ashley Key, 22, were reported missing Friday after Haarup's fiancé, Matt Meyers, came home to find his 6- and 18-month old daughters alone and in the same crib. Relatives of the women said there was blood on the couch in the Edgerton residence, located about 35 miles north of Kansas City.

"The truck was gone, the girls were gone and Matt has some personal guns that had been missing as well. That is all he had to tell me, and I knew something was wrong at that point," the mother of the missing women, Taresa Haarup, told KCTV.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120715/us-missing-women-missouri/

Britny Haarup, Ashley Key: Truck Found in Missing Missouri Sisters Search

By OLIVIA KATRANDJIAN
July 15, 2012



A truck linked to two missing Missouri women was found on a dusty, country road this weekend, raising concerns about foul play.

Britny Haarup, 19, and Ashley Key, 22, were last seen Friday morning in their Edgerton, Missouri home.

Haarup's fiancé Matt Meyers reportedly found their two children alone in their crib when he returned home that evening. Meyers then ran to neighbors and said there was blood inside the house.

Police were called to the scene.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/britny-haarup-ashley-key-truck-found-missing-missouri/story?id=16781106

UPDATE

Authorities speaking with person of interest in case of missing sisters

Posted: Jul 14, 2012 10:55 AM CDT
Updated: Jul 15, 2012 3:46 PM CDT

By Laura McCallister, Multimedia Producer
By Alice Barr, News Reporter
By Chris Oberholtz, Multimedia Producer


EDGERTON, MO (KCTV) - The Platte County Sheriff's Office is speaking with a person of interest and has executed two search warrants in the case of the two missing sisters from Edgerton, MO.

Britny Haarup, 19, and Ashley Key, 22, were reported missing Friday after Haarup's fiancé, Matt Meyers, came home to find his two baby daughters alone in the same crib and their mother nowhere to be found.

Authorities say this is an unusual disappearance because Haarup's 6- and 18-month-old daughters were left alone. The two children are doing fine with their father.

Now, loved ones are now leaning on each other and on prayer to cope.

Video at link:

http://www.kctv5.com/story/19025310/authorities-speaking-with-person-of-interest-in-case-of-missing-sisters

Authorities search for two missing Platte County sisters

Hunt is under way, but family and police fear they have become victims of violence.

By MIKE HENDRICKS
The Kansas City Star


Ashley Key, 22 (left), and Britny Haarup, 19 (right).

Relatives of two missing Platte County sisters fear the worst.

After all, 19-year-old Britny Haarup never would have left her 6-month-old and 18-month-old daughters alone in a crib. Yet that is where Haarup’s fiancé found the youngsters when he got home about 4 p.m. Friday in Edgerton, Mo.

Haarup’s cellphone was there — along with her purse, her sister’s purse and the shoes her sister had been wearing.

Worse yet, blood soaked a comforter left on the couch, according to her father, Paul Haarup of Smithville.

“I want you to come home,” fiancé Matt Meyers said tearfully of Haarup. “Your babies love you and they miss you.”

Read more:

http://lostnmissing.posterous.com/endangered-missing-sisters-ashley-key-22-and

At a vigil Saturday night in Edgerton, Mo., Matt Meyers (left), father of 6-month-old Adilynn Meyers, stood with his grandmother MaryAnn Goad (holding Adilynn) and Paul Haarup, father of the missing women. Haarup held Aleah Haarup, 18 months.

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/07/14/3705090/searchers-find-missing-womens.html

Search continues for missing Edgerton, Mo., sisters



Just west of 169 Highway, on 200th Street in rural Platte County, is where law enforcement officers found, on Saturday, July 14, 2012, the abandoned truck believed to have been driven by sister Britny Haarup and Ashley Key, who were reported missing Friday.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/07/14/3705670/search-continues-for-edgerton.html#slide-1#storylink=cpy

"Britny Haarup, 19, and Ashley Key, 22, were reported missing Friday after Haarup's fiancé, Matt Meyers, came home to find his 6- and 18-month old daughters alone and in the same crib. Relatives of the women said there was blood on the couch in the Edgerton residence, located about 35 miles north of Kansas City.

"The truck was gone, the girls were gone and Matt has some personal guns that had been missing as well. That is all he had to tell me, and I knew something was wrong at that point," the mother of the missing women, Taresa Haarup, told KCTV."

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/jul/15/us-missing-women-missouri/

Authorities continue search for 2 Missouri sisters

July 15, 2012 03:27 PM EST
AP

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Family members fear the sisters were abducted. They said Key, the mother of a 4-year-old girl, had been running with a bad crowd and sought her sister's help turning her life around.

"That's why she came to Britny and Matt's house; to get help, to get out of that lifestyle. She was very serious about getting help," Cassandra Meyers, sister-in-law of Matt Meyers, told KSHB.

Haarup's fiancé said his daughters need their mother back home.

"Your babies love you and they miss you," he told The Kansas City Star.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120715/us-missing-women-missouri/

Hunt for two sisters who VANISHED from home leaving behind their two children

By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 15:45 EST, 15 July 2012 | UPDATED: 16:37 EST, 15 July 2012

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Loving mother: Ms Haarup, pictured with her fiance Matt Meyers and her newborn daughter, would never abandon her two children, age 6 months and 18 months, according to family members

Ms Haarup's father, Paul, said Ms Key, the mother of a four-year-old, had been 'running with the wrong crowd' and he fears someone from her past might have abducted them, he told the Kansas City Star.

Matt Meyers, who is engaged to marry Ms Haarup, said he found her two children, age six months and 18 months, alone in their crib. She has never been known the leave her children by themselves before.

In the home police found a blood-soaked comforter. Ms Haarup's white Dodge pickup truck were missing, as were some of Mr Meyers' guns.

More pictures at link:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2174002/Britny-Haarup-Ashley-Key-missing-Sister-leave-children-purses.html

KCTV5 News - Video:

http://www.kctv5.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=7504886

http://www.kmbc.com/news/kansas-city/2-bodies-found-arrest-made-in-search-for-2-missing-women/-/11664182/15526052/-/rce0l6z/-/index.html#ixzz20kk1AZbp
2 bodies found, arrest made in search for 2 missing women

CLINTON COUNTY, Mo. - An arrest has been made and 2 female bodies have been found in the search for 2 missing women from Edgerton, Mo.

Honeysage wrote:http://www.kmbc.com/news/kansas-city/2-bodies-found-arrest-made-in-search-for-2-missing-women/-/11664182/15526052/-/rce0l6z/-/index.html#ixzz20kk1AZbp
2 bodies found, arrest made in search for 2 missing women

CLINTON COUNTY, Mo. - An arrest has been made and 2 female bodies have been found in the search for 2 missing women from Edgerton, Mo.

Honeysage, It is so sad to hear the news about their bodies been found, my heart goes out to their family, and their children.

Bodies found in field, suspect in custody in search for 2 missing sisters

By Chris Oberholtz, Multimedia Producer
By Alice Barr, News Reporter

Video at link:

http://www.kctv5.com/story/19030420/authorities-find-bodies-of-2-women-in-field-suspect-in-custody?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=7506002

Two bodies found in rural field in search for missing sisters

By BRAD COOPER and RICK MONTGOMERY
The Kansas City Star

Authorities found the bodies of two women in a rural field late Sunday after interrogating a suspect in the disappearance of a pair of sisters from an Edgerton, Mo., home.

The Platte County sheriff’s office said it could not immediately confirm the identities or causes of deaths of the women discovered near Trimble, Mo., in extreme southwest Clinton County.

They were white, said Capt. Erik Holland, “and we can say we were led here based on information from a suspect in the disappearance of Britny Haarup and Ashley Key.”

“That individual is under arrest and in custody,” he said.

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/07/15/3705987/authorities-talk-to-person-of.html

Britny Haarup, Ashley Key: Bodies of 2 Missing Missouri Sisters May Been Found

By ANTHONY CASTELLANO
July 16, 2012



Authorities in Platte County, Mo., say they may have found the bodies of two missing sisters, following a tip from a person of interest in the case.

The bodies were found in an open field in Clinton County late Sunday, according to ABC News station KMBC. Police have not confirmed whether they were the bodies of Britny Haarup, 19, and Ashley Key, 22, who went missing Friday from their Edgerton home.

The person of interest has been arrested, according to KMBC.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/britny-haarup-ashley-key-bodies-found-search-missouri/story?id=16784299

Man charged with beating, suffocating sisters

Clifford D. Miller charged with 2 counts of first-degree murder

UPDATED 1:02 PM CDT Jul 16, 2012



PLATTE CITY, Mo. - A man was charged Monday in the beating and suffocation deaths of two sisters from Edgerton, Mo., last week.

Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd said Clifford D. Miller, 31, of Trimble, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder.

Britny Haarup, 19, and Ashley Key, 22, were last seen Friday morning. Their bodies were found Sunday near a tree line on a Clinton County farm.

Read more:

http://www.kmbc.com/news/kansas-city/Man-charged-with-beating-suffocating-sisters/-/11664182/15560060/-/o6m2az/-/index.html?absolute=true

Missing Missouri Sisters: Man Charged With Murder

Clifford Miller, 31, has been charged in deaths of Britny Haarup and Ashley Key.

04:41 | 07/16/2012




http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/missing-missouri-sisters-man-charged-with-murder-16787803

Man charged with killing 2 NW Missouri sisters

Their bodies were found late Sunday

Updated: Monday, 16 Jul 2012, 11:15 AM MDT
Published : Monday, 16 Jul 2012, 5:24 AM MDT

BILL DRAPER,Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A man high on methamphetamine was charged Monday with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of two sisters whose bodies were found in a field in northwest Missouri, an official said.

Clifford B. Miller, 31, was charged in the slayings Friday of 22-year-old Ashley Key and 19-year-old Britny Haarup, Sheriff Richard Anderson said.

The women were killed in Haarup's home in Edgerton, 35 miles north of Kansas City, and their bodies were dumped in a nearby field, Anderson said.

http://www.kasa.com/dpps/news/national/midwest/bodies-found-in-search-for-2-missouri-sisters-nt12-jgr_4239125

Charges filed in deaths of Edgerton, Mo., sisters

By GLENN E. RICE and SANGEETA SHASTRY
The Kansas City Star

July 16, 2012



As officials talked about the killings of his daughters, Britny Haarup and Ashley Key, during a press conference Monday, Paul Haarup had to take a seat at the Platte County Resource Center. “My daughters were very wonderful people. Their short lives aren’t going to be forgotten,” he said

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Their father, Paul Haarup, said his family had been “sentenced to life.”
“Our duty,” he said, “is to make sure that the three granddaughters left behind are very aware of how special their mothers were.”

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On Monday, Platte County authorities charged Miller, 31, of Trimble, with two counts of first-degree murder that contend he suffocated the two women in a rape attempt that turned deadly. His bond was set at $500,000.
A conviction would carry a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd noted that he also could seek the death penalty.

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/07/16/3707038/charges-filed-in-deaths-of-edgerton.html

Alessandra_Deux wrote:Charges filed in deaths of Edgerton, Mo., sisters

By GLENN E. RICE and SANGEETA SHASTRY
The Kansas City Star

July 16, 2012



As officials talked about the killings of his daughters, Britny Haarup and Ashley Key, during a press conference Monday, Paul Haarup had to take a seat at the Platte County Resource Center. “My daughters were very wonderful people. Their short lives aren’t going to be forgotten,” he said

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Their father, Paul Haarup, said his family had been “sentenced to life.”
“Our duty,” he said, “is to make sure that the three granddaughters left behind are very aware of how special their mothers were.”

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On Monday, Platte County authorities charged Miller, 31, of Trimble, with two counts of first-degree murder that contend he suffocated the two women in a rape attempt that turned deadly. His bond was set at $500,000.
A conviction would carry a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd noted that he also could seek the death penalty.

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/07/16/3707038/charges-filed-in-deaths-of-edgerton.html

Mr. Haarup, no daddy should ever have to say those words about his little girls - "how special they WERE," and I'm just heartbroken for you.

Funeral of Girls Slain by Tweeker to be Protested by WBC

July 20, 2012 06:30 PM EDT

The funeral of slain sisters Ashley Key and Britny Haarup is going to be protested by the Westboro Baptist Church.

Read more:
http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981486613

Julie wrote:Funeral of Girls Slain by Tweeker to be Protested by WBC

July 20, 2012 06:30 PM EDT

The funeral of slain sisters Ashley Key and Britny Haarup is going to be protested by the Westboro Baptist Church.

Read more:
http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981486613

Dear heavens! In what sick, twisted mind is the murder of two young ladies even remotely comparable to being "nearly run off the road?" The article had a very non-hateful tone to it, which is good. However, if the writer calls the rest of us Christians "brethren" to these despicable monsters again, I might just have to write a strongly-worded letter.

Mother mourns murdered Edgerton sisters

Posted: Jul 25, 2012 8:12 AM CDT
Updated: Jul 25, 2012 8:18 AM CDT
By Chris Oberholtz, Multimedia Producer
By Betsy Webster, News Reporter

(VIDEO)

PLATTE COUNTY, MO (KCTV) - The mother of two sisters killed in a double murder is focused on honoring the memory of her daughters and providing for their girls.

The two young mothers were reported missing earlier this month. After an intensive search, investigators found the bodies of Britny Haarup and Ashley Key in a field two days later.

Clifford Miller is charged with killing both Haarup and Key. Miller was schedule for a routine court appearance Tuesday, but Tareasa Haarup had nothing to say about him.

Read more:

http://www.kctv5.com/story/19108595/mother-mourns-murdered-sisters

Julie wrote:Funeral of Girls Slain by Tweeker to be Protested by WBC

July 20, 2012 06:30 PM EDT

The funeral of slain sisters Ashley Key and Britny Haarup is going to be protested by the Westboro Baptist Church.

Read more:
http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981486613

PROTESTING: Protesting WHAT? Guess I am slow, dense, outta the loop..
but for the life of me, I cannot grasp WHY/WHAT these people protest.
What purpose do they serve? Just what do they expect to accomplish?
How can their protest accomplish anything?

Confessed killer sentenced to 2 life terms for murders of Mo. sisters (Video)

By Sarah J. Clark and John Pepitone
Posted on: 1:48 pm, April 23, 2013,
Updated on: 06:35pm, April 23, 2013

PLATTE COUNTY, MO. — A Platte County judge sentenced Clifford Miller, 31, to two consecutive life terms without the possibility of probation after he pleaded guilty to the murders of Britny Haarup and her sister Ashley Key.

Miller admitted he was high on meth at the time of the July 2012 murders. He told investigators he went to their Edgerton, Mo., home with the intention of raping Britny.

Platte County Sheriff Richard Andersen says Miller was surprised to find Britny’s 22-year-old sister Ashley Key sleeping on the couch when he entered the home. When she confronted him, Miller told detectives he decided to kill her.

Read more:

http://fox4kc.com/2013/04/23/confessed-killer-sentenced-to-2-life-terms-for-murders-of-mo-sisters