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Prosecutor will not seek death penalty in case of murdered Beaver Township woman

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CRAWFORD COUNTY, Pennsylvania - A Pennsylvania prosecutor has decided not to seek the death penalty against two women accused of killing a Valley woman, then burying her in a shallow grave last spring.

Crawford County District Attorney Francis Schultz says a brutal attack led to the death of 20-year-old Brandy Stevens of Beaver Township.

But Schultz says there was insufficient evidence to support any of the aggravating circumstances that would allow prosecutors to pursue capital punishment against 20-year-old Ashley Barber and 18-year-old Jade Olmstead.

Both of them waived a preliminary hearing Friday.

Prosecutors allege that they invited Stevens to their Cochranton area home in May, but beat and choked her and then rolled her into a shallow grave where they tried to drown her before she eventually suffocated.

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