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Investigators are trying to determine a motive for the killings.

The California family kidnapped on Monday were found dead in a remote orchard, authorities said. The victims are an 8-month-old girl, her parents and her uncle.

“There’s a special place in hell for this guy,” the Sheriff of Merced County in California has said of the suspect who abducted four members of an Indian-origin Sikh family, including an eight-month-old baby girl, found dead in an orchard.

Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke said the kidnapper made no ransom demands but that he believed it was a financially motivated crime.

Four bodies of a Sikh family kidnapped at gunpoint in Central California were found in a remote orchard Wednesday, the Merced County Sheriff’s Office said.

Merced Co. Sheriff Vern Warnke announced Wednesday that the bodies were found in a Merced County orchard and told reporters: “Our worst fears have been confirmed.”

Investigators are trying to determine a motive for the killings.

Four kidnapped California family members -- including a baby girl -- were found dead in a farm area Wednesday, authorities said, two days after they were abducted from their business

The bodies of a family of four, including an 8-month-old girl, who were kidnapped in California earlier this week, ...

A baby girl, her parents and uncle were found dead in a central California orchard two days after they were kidnapped at gunpoint from their business, police said.