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    • Good job to the hard working officers. They got 1 person already. Great job..

      RB @ 9:47 PM CDT, Jun 27, 2009

    • I just want to point out that all of Taron's biological mother's family's posts make no sense. Have any of you been to school? Did you take an English class?

      Food for thought @ 11:35 PM CDT, Jun 20, 2009

    • You know why dont you people just get a life its done and over with i am tarons cousin and i doesnt matter if debbie gave her to her grandparents but she was still her mother so if you want to bash someone, dont look at the obvious people.

      John @ 8:47 PM CDT, Jun 15, 2009

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COLE CAMP, MO. - Police have identified the three people who were found dead in Cole Camp, Mo., as Taron Dion Luetjen, 15, and her grandparents, Donnie, 64, and Sharon Luetjen, 61.

Highway Patrol has officially announced they are investigating the triple murder in Cole Camp. The small town community is located about two hours from Kansas City south of Sedalia.

According to her aunt, the teen, Taron Dion Luetjen, was a straight-A student and attended church on a regular basis.

Taron was found dead at her grandparents' side. Police said the grandparents had custody of the teen. Her father died when she was just a month old.

The girl's aunt said her sister, the girl's mother, was at work at the time of the murders. The mother lives in Buffalo, Mo.

According to the Missouri Highway Patrol, police found the bodies after receiving a call from someone concerned over the home's occupants.

Investigators say that they haven't determined how the people in the home died, only saying that there were "suspicious circumstances" around the deaths.

Authorities say the deaths likely occurred Sunday or Monday.

The Rural Missouri Major Case Squad is being activated to help with the investigation.