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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrea Cavallier

A 9-year-old girl was raped and murdered in a church choir loft in 1962. Police have finally been able to identify the killer

More than six decades after a nine-year-old girl was raped and murdered in the choir loft of a Catholic church in Pennsylvania, investigators say they have finally identified her killer – a serial rapist whose crimes spanned several states.

William Schrader, an Army veteran dishonorably discharged at the time of the murder, was officially named this week as the man who killed Carol Ann Dougherty inside St. Mark’s Church on October 22, 1962.

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