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Mom of girls killed in Flora fire says she has never believed it was arson

Residents of Carroll County say investigations into the deaths of a total of six children in two separate cases are keeping them up at night.

FLORA, Ind. (WTHR) - On East Columbia Street in downtown Flora, just across the street from the house where four little girls died in a house fire last November, there's a flyer up asking for help finding the person responsible for starting the fire that killed them.

On the same window where that flyer hangs, there's another one, asking for information to help solve the case of two teens murdered in Delphi last February.


Both cases, only three months apart, remain unsolved.

Both cases, say the folks in Flora, keep them up at night.

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"It's hard. It's really hard to sit and think that four girls died here," said Zach Glasscock as he came out of the local Pizza King where both flyers hang and looked at the house across the street.

Even harder for people living in Flora to think that 11 months later, investigators still don't have any answers about who started the fire that killed those sisters.

"I think it's a shame that these girls aren't getting the justice that they deserve," said Glasscock.

"Every single day I think of them many times," said Lisay Boyd, who says every time she steps outside of her house and sees the boarded up windows on the house next door, Boyd is reminded of those four little girls - Keyana, Keyara, Kerriele and Kionnie.

"How can somebody do that to four little girls," Boyd asked.

It's the same kind of question just 15 minutes down the road in Delphi, also in Carroll County, people have asked about the girls two families lost, Libby German and Abby Williams. Their murders also remain unsolved.

"They are different cases. Neither one deserves less attention than the other. Neither deserves more attention," said Boyd.

Some, though, have questioned the attention and resources the Delphi case has received compared to the one in Flora.

Boyd says it's no one's fault that the Delphi case has had more clues that investigators have released to the public, like a picture of the suspect and recording of his voice.

"We don't have that here. We don't have somebody's face. We don't have a voice," said Boyd.

Boyd doesn't think the two cases should be compared, saying parents in both, lost children they love.

"I don't think it's Flora versus Delphi in anything but football around here," said Boyd.

"I think we've all come together to do the best we can and help one another in these awful, awful circumstances, cause I'm pretty sure neither town is used to something like this," she said.

Eyewitness News spoke on the phone to Gaylin Rose, the mother of Keyana, Keyara, Kerriele and Kionnie. Rose says she has never believed this was a case of arson, despite what investigators say. She still believes it was something in the house that caused the fire. Rose says she just wants some kind of update from investigators, but information has been slow in coming. She says every time she breathes, she wishes she could have her daughters back.

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