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Published on Friday, October 10, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
MOORPARK - After five days of digging, authorities said Friday that the bones of 16-year-old Roger Dale Madison will rest beneath a Ventura County freeway, where Sylmar serial killer Edward Ray Mack secretly buried him 40 years ago.
Roger's little sister, Sharon Barlow, now gray-haired and in her 50s, laid a bouquet of red roses by the edge of the open pit alongside the freeway and cried as police and digging crews, helmets at their sides, bowed their heads.
It is the closest thing to a burial ceremony her big brother will have.
And for Detective Vivian Flores of the Los Angeles Police Department, who has spent three years trying to find the bodies of Mack's young victims, it was hard to call off the search.
"It's been a long journey for me, too. I worked hard," Flores said, her voice cracking and tears flooding her eyes. "I couldn't sleep at night if I didn't try.
"If this was your child, you would want me to do the same thing. And I would
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