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Sex Offender Serving Life Sentence For Killing Two Teen Girls Dies In State Prison A man serving a life sentence for the brutal murders of two teenagers in the 1980s died Wednesday in prison. Pedro Miranda, 61, died in the hospice unit at MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield, said state Department of Corrections Spokesman Andrius Banevicius. Miranda was charged with the murders of Mayra Cruz, 13, and 17-year-old Carmen Lopez following an Innocence Project investigation in 2008 and DNA evidence matched evidence found at the crime scenes. Cruz went missing in Hartford in 1987 when she did not come home from school. Her body was found a month later in a wo…

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