Alysha R. and Kendra M. Suing

Alysha, 8, and Kendra, 10, died last year literally at the hands of their stepfather.

Six days into the new year, firefighters pulled the bodies of 8-year-old Alysha and 10-year-old Kendra from their burning Sioux City home. Their stepfather, Larry Harris, told police he had been ‘casting a spell that had gone bad’.

“It’s like he took my life away,” said Marla Harris, the mother of Kendra and Alysha Suing. ”He took my babies away from me.”

“But in reality it was his hands who strangled them, and it was his hands who cut them,” said Harris the day after her daughters’ murders. ”So in my eyes, it was him.”

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Harris, who is awaiting trial for the murder of the girls, is accused of killing the girls as a part of a Satanic ritual.  He is also thought to have set their house on fire to cover up his crime.  He has plead not guity due to insanity and is scheduled to go on trial this month.

The girls mother is still struggling to cope with the tragedy of their loss.

Kendra and Alysha were straight A and B students at Irving Elementary School. They both had a creative knack.

Third grader Alysha loved to draw and fifth grader Kendra loved to write, authoring several poems and short stories. The two were inseparable.

“Pretty much, they slept, they had their own beds, but they never slept in their own beds.   They always had to sleep together,” says Harris.

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The sad story of Kendra and Alysha is that they were killed by someone that they and their mother trusted.  How does one not know that a person in their household believes in Satanic rituals or is so insane as to murder two innocent girls left in his care?

Thanks to Kendra and Alysha’s grandmother for sharing the pictures of her precious angels.

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