Prince George’s County police are investigating double mother-daughter homicides in the same area. The two cases are a top priority as tensions and fear rise.

    The Loftons, Karen and Karissa, were the first, shot in late January in their Largo home. Then on Monday, less than a half mile away, the bodies of Deloris and Ebony Dewitt were found in a burning car, one in the trunk, the other in the back seat.

    “To me, the feeling is there’s just got to be some kind of connection,” said Michael Jeter, 45, a neighbor of the Dewitts.

    “Everybody in this neighborhood is in fear right now,” said William Mackall, 62, who lives several blocks from the Dewitt home. “I have kids, but thank God, just boys, no girls.”

    At a news conference Tuesday night, police said they could not rule out the possibility that a serial killer was responsible for the slayings. No physical evidence linked the killings, but police said the parallels were disturbing and went beyond proximity: In each case, the mothers were in their 40s and the daughters were teenagers. They were found dead early in the morning, on a Monday.

    One other commonality that emerged yesterday – Karen Lofton, 45, and Deloris Dewitt, 43, were both nurses – appeared to be mere coincidence, police said. Lofton had just finished her first day of orientation to be a school nurse in Largo. Dewitt had worked at a nursing home in Clinton for the past nine years. READ MORE…