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PA Girl's Disappearance Haunts Investigators Nearly 40 Years Later PA Girl's Disappearance Haunts Investigators Nearly 40 Years Later
PA Girl's Disappearance Haunts Investigators Nearly 40 Years Later Jolene Michelle Lakey was just steps from her Scranton home when she vanished nearly 40 years ago.  The 11-year-old was walking back with a friend after visiting her sick mother at Mercy Hospital, now the Commonwealth Health Regional Hospital, on August 26, 1986, according to state police investigators.  They parted ways after reaching her friend's house on Myrtle Street, and Lakey continued onto North Washington Avenue toward her home on the 1300 block.  She never made it, say the Pennsylvania Crime Stoppers.  Witnesses reported that a child matching Lakey's…

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by Mac Bullock
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Search For Missing PA Woman Announced After Relative Dies From 'Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound' Search For Missing PA Woman Announced After Relative Dies From 'Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound'
Search For Missing PA Woman Announced After Relative Dies From 'Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound' A relative of a woman who had been missing since August 3 "died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound" on Sunday, August 14, Pennsylvania state police say. Tammy Berkey, of Berlin, had left her home in a red transam that Wednesday and had not been heard from since, according to her family. She was first reported missing on August 7, according to social media posts by her family. PSP in Somerset County and the county's district attorney's office announced it's involvement in the search a week later, only after the relative died. The reason for this delay is unclear. Berkey remains missing an…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Search For Long Island Woman Goes National, Police Eye Uncooperative BF As Person Of Interest Search For Long Island Woman Goes National, Police Eye Uncooperative BF As Person Of Interest
Search For Long Island Woman Goes National, Police Eye Uncooperative BF As Person Of Interest The search for Long Island's Gabby Petito has gone national as police eye her boyfriend as a possible suspect. She and her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, left Long Island in early July for a cross-country trip in her 2012 Ford Transit van. Petito's mom reported her missing to Suffolk County police on Sept. 1, since last hearing from her on Aug. 30. Meanwhile, Laundrie returned to his North Port, Florida home in his girlfriend's van after their cross-country trip together, has refused to cooperate with authorities. “As a father, I can imagine the pain and suffering Gabby’s family is going throu…

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by Kathy Reakes & Cecilia Levine