2 teens arrested for Compton-area murders

COMPTON, Calif.

First a body was discovered in Norwalk. Then another was found in Long Beach. Now two teenagers are behind bars, accused of killing them.

Police say family members of the victims gave them the names of two teenagers related to the couple. Police would not say how.

Detectives say the juveniles, a 16-year-old male and a 15-year-old female, led them to the body of the missing man.

His body was discovered in a shallow grave in a vacant lot in north Long Beach overnight.

Detectives have linked the body of a woman discovered Saturday in a shallow grave in a vacant lot in Norwalk believed to be the missing woman.

The teenagers have been taken into custody and booked for murder in the killing of the couple.

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