The abduction, rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl in a small Pennsylvania city left a community haunted for decades as the cold case went unsolved, without a single arrest being made, for nearly sixty years.
That was until recently, when the Pennsylvania state police announced in February that they’d successfully identified the long-dead assailant through the assistance of a young genealogy expert, who was just 18 when he was tapped by the force two years ago.
