Author: Tammy Mal
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781717785756
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 277
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When nine-year-old Mae Ruth Barrett failed to return home on the stormy night of January 2, 1945, her family immediately feared an accident. But when the child's brutally beaten body was found the next day, secreted in an abandoned house, the small town of Vandling was left reeling. Who could kill a child walking home from church? Stunned by the barbaric events, residents would become even more horrified when suspicion soon focused on a most unlikely suspect. In harrowing detail, learn how the police solved one of the most sadistic crimes in history, long before the use of computers, DNA, or modern forensic science.
Author: Tammy Mal
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781536906929
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Susquehanna County: an area rich in history, natural resources, and long-forgotten crime. September 27, 1873, New Milford, Pa. When two women are found horribly mutilated and lying dead on the railroad tracks, everyone just assumes it's a tragic accident. But when it's determined that Margaret and Mary O'Mara have been brutally murdered, the hunt is on for a sadistic killer. October 19, 1897, Rush, Pa. Authorities couldn't fathom who would want to beat 68-year-old Jack Pepper to death until a young woman, looking to even the score with her cheating ex-lover paid them a visit. October 3, 1921, Union Dale, Pa. After prosperous cattle dealer, Burns Lyon, is found robbed and murdered in his barn, the case quickly goes cold. When police finally make an arrest years later, they are confident they've solved the crime. But have they? October 29, 1922, Susquehanna, Pa. Who bludgeoned 80-year-old Civil War vet, Cyrus Payne, to death? What happened to the $1000 bill he'd been showing off only days earlier? And who is the strange young boy who calls Cyrus his "best friend?" Take a journey back in time to discover that murder and mayhem in the old days was not all that different than it is today.
Author: Tammy Mal
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613739826
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 297
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On Thursday, December 15, 1994, Joann Katrinak and her three-month-old son, Alex, went missing from their Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, home. Four months later, when their bodies were found in a lonely patch of woods, the police would launch a three-year investigation leading to the arrest of Patricia Lynne Rorrer—a young mother who had never met either victim—as the monster responsible. In what would become Pennsylvania's first use of mitochondrial DNA in a criminal case, Patricia Rorrer was quickly tried, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison without parole. But did the jury make the right decision? Is Patricia Rorrer truly guilty? As new evidence continues to surface, including allegations of prosecutorial misconduct and evidence tampering, that question requires an answer even more. With a subject matter and storytelling style reminiscent of the hit podcast Serial, Convenient Suspect will appeal to a wide audience. The book reveals information never before made public—information gathered directly from more than 10,000 official documents, including Pennsylvania State Police reports, FBI Files, forensic lab results, and the 6,500-page trial transcript. Through four years of intensive research, countless interviews with those involved, and hundreds of letters, phone calls, and personal visits with Patricia Rorrer, the truth about the evidence used to convict her can finally be revealed.
Author: Frank W. Dressler
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595524826
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
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How could birding, that most peaceful of avocations, lead to two grisly murders in Nepal and an un-investigated death in Panama? Kate and Ben, recent converts to the joys of birding, become enthusiastic members of the Susquehanna County Birders Group and look forward to birding in Nepal where a group member, Tara Cope, receives a Fulbright Scholarship to teach for a year. Thus begins a web of intrigue and murder the surprising and dramatic conclusion of which is revealed during a later birding tour in Panama.
Author: Pennsylvania. County Courts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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Author: Frank Dressler
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595408893
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Chip Brown, a retired diplomat, is living in the family manse in Montrose, Pennsylvania when he receives a note threatening death by fire unless he returns "the Yasna", a liturgical work written and used by the followers of Zoroaster long before the time of Christ. At the suggestion of retired Philadelphia homicide detective Kate Pierce, Chip digs into the history of his diplomatic career that was terminated abruptly when his wife, Henna, was uncovered as a Soviet spy. Follow Chip from quiet Montrose to Moscow as, in a race against time, he learns about Zoroastrianism, tries to find out why someone would be willing to kill to retrieve the Yasna, and uncovers things that Henna hid from him which ultimately put his life at risk.
Author: Ruth Buchanan
Publisher: Pelican Ventures Book Group
ISBN: 1522300503
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 123
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Depressed at the prospect of spending another Christmas alone, successful crime podcaster Morgan Scott travels to the Endless Mountains of Pennsylvania to research a historic murder. But in the tiny village of Birchardville, past crimes and present dangers collide, placing both Morgan and the local residents in very real peril. This Christmas, there'll be no silent night.
Author: Maria Eftimiades
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466868201
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 231
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***Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.*** He was a beloved family physician and a ruthless doctor of death who almost got away with murder. It was a friendly hunting trip--two men kicking back, shooting at clay pigeons on campgrounds near rural Montrose, Pa. Then, a single shot rang out. Moments later, Marty Dillon, a promising young lawyer, was dead of a gunshot wound to the chest. His friend, Dr. Stephen Scher, later tearfully explained that Dillon had been running with a shotgun after a porcupine, and tripped and fell, accidentally killing himself. But what really happened? Marty Dillon's violent death was immediately declared an accident by the local coroner in 1976. But as Dillon's body was lowered into the cold ground, did a damning secret, one that would haunt his friends and family for decades, go with him? * Were rumors of an affair between Dr. Scher and Marty's wife, Pat, true? * Why did the couple marry so soon after Dillon's death? * If the shot was self-inflicted, why did the bullet come from Dr. Scher's gun? * What was it about Dillon's bloody wound that cast suspicion on Scher? After 20 years of pleading with authorities and finally hiring their own investigators, Dillon's parents persuaded the Pennsylvania State Police to reopen the case. They exhumed Dillon's body--and his decayed remains told the real story of that tragic day two decades earlier. On October 22, 1997, Dr. Stephen Scher was convicted of the murder of Marty Dillon--final justice for a cold-blooded killer who for 20 years thought he had gotten away with murder. Maria Eftimiades recounts the shocking true story in Secrets from the Grave.
Author: Pennsylvania
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 1692
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Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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