Sydney Pippin, who was 4 months old, and her cousin, Vicky Fraley, 16 months, died as they sat in the car for eight hours Saturday while the temperature climbed. The girls died of heat exhaustion and dehydration.
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``It appears that the pain was so severe, the trauma so bad, it was so hot in that car, that the 16-month-old -- her head hurt so bad -- she had her own hair pulled out by the roots in her own clenched little fists,'' prosecutor Brad Butler said.
``It's a metal box, and it heated up just like an oven,'' said Benton County Sheriff's Deputy Tom Brewster.
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