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Mourners Howl at Blue Moon for Santa Cruz Girl, Maddy Middleton, Allegedly Killed by Neighbor

From Santa Cruz to San Jose, from New Orleans to Hawaii, people across the world howled at the blue moon on Friday night for 8-year-old Maddy Middleton, who was killed, police say, by her 15-year-old neighbor.

"Just letting you know I howled for Maddy up here in CFB Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada!" Suzanne Saumure Lemire wrote on the #HowlforMaddyEVERYWHERE Facebook page.

Friends and strangers posted their howling videos on social media with the hashtag #HowlforMaddy, for a girl who loved wolves, her mother, Laura Jordan, told the San Francisco Chronicle.

Videos and photos showed people howling from their bedrooms, beaches, and downtown Santa Cruz, just miles from where Maddy was allegedly sexually assaulted and killed on July 26 at the Tannery Arts Complex.

Her teenage neighbor, Adrian "AJ" Gonzalez, was charged with her murder. He has not yet entered a plea.

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