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While exploring in an area flooded days before, two Sissonville Middle School students spotted a clear plastic bag high in a tree with something inside. "We just looked up in a tree and saw something and we got a ladder and I climbed up and got it," said Eddie Slate, 14.
Slate said he climbed about 30 feet up - where water had swirled through branches only days before - to retrieve the plastic bag. But when he got there, he found something tied to the plastic bag: a black pocketbook.
"It was like a clear trash bag," Slate said. "Once I got up there I saw the purse hanging on the other side [of the tree], so I got it, too."
Inside the purse, he and friend Steve Randolph, 12, discovered $20, $50 and $100 bills. They also found the identification of Betty Lou Huffman, whose body was swept down Two Mile Creek Friday night and into the Kanawha River, only to be recovered almost 150 miles away on Sunday in...