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ELK POINT, S.D. -- Aloysius Black Crow pleaded guilty to two counts of perjury Thursday in Union County Circuit Court.

Black Crow, 37, admitted lying to a Union County grand jury on May 24, 2007, and again on Jan. 17. He told the grand jury that the voice on a jailhouse tape he made secretly as an informant was that of David Lee Lykken discussing his alleged role in the death of two 17-year-old girls, Cheryl Miller and Pamella Jackson, both of Vermillion, S.D., nearly 37 years ago.

Lykken, 53, was charged recently with the girls' murders in what had been a cold case, based at least in part on the audio tape evidence. Their bodies have never been found.

Attorney General Larry Long said last month it had been discovered that Black Crow had tape recorded a conversation between himself and another inmate who was pretending to be Lykken confessing to the murders. Long filed a motion to dismiss the murder charges, but vowed to continue the investigation.

Lykken will remain in prison, where he has been serving a 227-year sentence since 1990 for raping and kidnapping an ex-girlfriend in Clay County.

Circuit Judge Arthur L. Rusch did not set a date Thursday for Black Crow's sentencing.

they said they did search the area at the time but nothing turned up then.

Cold case closed: Missing girls died in car accident

John Hult, jhult@argusleader.com 11:15 p.m. CDT April 15, 2014

ELK POINT - The 1960 Studebaker Lark was in third gear, with the keys in the ignition and the lights on.

One tire was damaged.

And the remains of two girls, Pamela Jackson and Cheryl Miller, who disappeared in 1971 on their way to a party at a gravel pit in Union County were in the cab.

Those details emerged on Tuesday, as Attorney General Marty Jackley announced that neither foul play nor alcohol were part of the mystery that started as a missing persons case, and was investigated as a homicide in the early 2000s based on jailhouse testimony that turned out to be false.

They could state with certainty that alcohol was not involved, after 42 years?

Miller, Jackson positively identified; 43-year cold case closed

April 15, 2014 | Local News, Featured

By David Lias
david.lias@plaintalk.net

ELK POINT – Skeletal remains found last fall in a car submerged in a Union County creek have been positively identified as belonging to Cheryl Miller and Pam Jackson.

Official: Vermillion teens died in car crash in 1971

MOLLY MONTAG mmontag@siouxcityjournal.com

ELK POINT, S.D. | After nearly 43 years of searching for answers, Kay Brock finally has an explanation, albeit incomplete, of what happened the late-spring evening her younger sister, Pamella Jackson, mysteriously disappeared.

Jackson and a friend, Cheryl Miller, both 17, went missing while driving to a party at a gravel pit in Alcester, S.D., on May 29, 1971. On Tuesday, authorities announced the Vermillion High School students died that night when their car crashed into Brule Creek, just a half-mile from their destination.

The car, with two sets of human remains inside, was recovered in September after a passerby who knew about the case spotted it upside down and partly submerged in the muddy creek bank.
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The car did not contain any evidence, such as cans or bottles, that alcohol was involved. Based on witness accounts, the girls, who visited Miller's grandmother in the hospital in Vermillion, then met up with friends and followed them to Alcester, wouldn't have had time to stop along the way, Jackley said.

How did the driver's license survive intact after being submerged for 42 years?

"They could state with certainty that alcohol was not involved, after 42 years?" - They were on their way to the party, not from. Also, probably no open cans or bottles in the car.

"How did the driver's license survive intact after being submerged for 42 years?" - Driver's license probably held tightly in a plastic sleeve compressed in a wallet. Stuff in my wallet always seems to survive submerging on canoe trips.

Was all set to prosecute and, knowing South Dakota likely convict, an innocent man based on nothing more than the "dream recollections" of his sister that she thought she may have remembered the girls' car on their farmland (the police even tore up said farm in searching for the girls) and a faked taped "confession" that any seventh-grade forensics hobbyist could have told the idiot attorney general ( and, given that it's South Dakota, most of e attorney generals are idiots) was a fake by an inmate. Never mind that there were no bodies, no car, no indication of what might have happened, NOTHING. I'd like to think that the state, and the idiot Jackley, would take a lesson from this, but, knowing the state and its criminal "injustice" system, I'm not holding my breath.