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Updated: 2021-06-03 11:02:34

Florida inmate says he killed 6 in Pennsylvania in 1970s

An inmate serving life in Florida has confessed to killing six people in Pennsylvania in the 1970s, state police said.

By Mark Scolforo/The Associated Press

DNA technology leads to breakthrough in decades-old Bucks County ‘Jane Doe’ case

After more than thirty years, Bensalem police have struggled to figure out the identity of a young pregnant woman whose body was found at the bottom of a well in an abandoned distillery.

By Katie Meyer/WHYY

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2004 cold case of missing Quakertown man solved with killer’s confession

Adam Brundage was reported missing in October 2004. The case was cold for more than a decade, until Daman Smoot — Brundage’s roommate at the time of the disappearance — led authorities to Brundage’s remains in January.

By Ximena Conde/WHYY

Updated: 2019-09-07 07:51:52

Police: Biker mag ‘fiction’ leads to charges in 1972 Pennsylvania Turnpike killing

Authorities say a man accused of killing a motorist along the Pennsylvania Turnpike in 1972 wrote a piece published by a biker magazine in the 1980s about a gunman surprising a motorist.

By Mark Scolforo/The Associated Press

Composite images released in unsolved 1975 stabbing death in Lancaster County

Prosecutors released composite images Thursday of a man who left DNA at the scene of a 19-year-old midstate woman’s unsolved fatal stabbing nearly 44 years ago.

By Mark Scolforo/The Associated Press

Authorities: Socks help solve 1991 murder of Pa. woman

Philadelphia prosecutors and state police announced the arrest of Theodore Dill Donahue, now 52, on charges of murder and other counts in the 1991 death of his girlfriend, Denise Sharon Kulb.

By The Associated Press


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