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Detective Sgt. Jeffrey Wilbert of the Monmouth County Prosecutors Office crosses police tape near the house onLippincott Avenue in Long Branch where two people were found dead Friday afternoon.

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LONG BRANCH A 62-year-old woman and the 11-year-old girl she was raising were found dead Fridayafternoon in a first-floor apartment in a home on Lip-pincott Avenue, according to friends and family atthe scene.

About 100 adults and children who identifiedthemselves as friends and family waited at the in-tersection of Lippincott Avenue and HalburtonPlace for news about the deaths.

A distraught Lorraine Colbert said the dead wom-an was her twin sister, Joan Colbert, and the girl wasVeronica Roach. She said she did not know how theydied.

Colbert said her 30-year-old daughter, Markey

Butcher, found the woman dead in the house, alongwith the girl, whom she had been raising since thechild was 3 months old. Their relationship could notbe determined last night.

Police were tight-lipped about what happened,although law enforcement officials did confirmthat two people were dead in the home. There was alarge police presence in front of the two-story, yel-low framed house, which is a half-block from the

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FOUND DEADFAMILY: Older victim, 62, was raising younger one, 11LONG BRANCH: Crowd of 100 awaited news at scene

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