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| | USATODAY.com - 2 arrested in British kidnap probe (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Detectives had said only the night before that they remained optimistic Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were still alive, but their use of the word "murder" in the arrests shattered the hopes of those in the children's close-knit hometown of Soham, near Cambridge. |
 | | The girls disappeared Aug. 4 from the village of Soham, near Cambridge, and their case has transfixed Britain in the two weeks since. |
 | | In tiny, close-knit Soham, the grim developments were met with horror, and, fearing the worst, dozens of residents left floral tributes to the girls outside a local church. |
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