PRESTON, Minn. – A former Spring Valley woman was charged with vehicular homicide for the death of two Amish children whose horse-drawn buggy was rear-ended. Named in the criminal complaint was Samantha Jo Petersen, 35. The collision was September 25. It’s taken four months for investigators to sort through confounding if not bizarre facts in the case. These included suspicions that Samantha Jo Petersen had talked her identical twin sister into swapping clothes at the scene and taking responsibility for the wreck to protect her from charges of driving high on drugs. Meanwhile it’s reported around the Fillmore County Courthouse that criminal charges were being drafted also against he twin, Sarah Beth Petersen. The look-alike sisters lived together in Spring Valley at the time of the wreck. They since have relocated 60 miles away to Kellogg in Wabasha County.
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