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On August 6, 1964, Robert McAuliffe discovered the bodies of his two oldest daughters, Deborah 12, and Cynthia, 8, in their room here at the Worth Hotel. On the floor, barefoot and shirtless, lay a young drifter, Andrew Pixley. When police arrived, the 39-year-old McAuliffe, a judge from Illinois, had the drifter pinned to the floor. He screamed at the officer, "My God, this man killed my babies!" Deborah had been struck with a rock, Cynthia had been strangled. Both girls had been raped after they were killed. Pixley, 21, was arrested. Thirty to forty people crowed outside Pixley's jail cell and talked of lynching him. For his own safety, he was transferred to the Lander jail, 170 miles away. He was never tried for Cynthia's murder, but he pleaded guilty to the murder of Deborah. On December 19, 1965, Pixley was executed in the gas chamber at Rawlins. Newspaper: The Valley Independent Publication: 8 Aug 1964 - Monessen, Pennsylvania

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