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‘Truly Evil' Killer Of Pregnant Amish Mom Sentenced: PA AG ‘Truly Evil' Killer Of Pregnant Amish Mom Sentenced: PA AG
‘Truly Evil' Killer Of Pregnant Amish Mom Sentenced: PA AG The man who stabbed and shot a pregnant Amish mom of two inside her Crawford County home has been sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison, Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced on Monday, July 28. Shawn Cranston, 53, of Corry, was convicted last month of First-Degree Murder and Second-Degree Murder of an Unborn Child for the killing of 23-year-old Rebekah A. Byler in her Sparta Township home on Feb. 26, 2024. “This defendant committed a truly evil act, and is now held fully accountable as he will spend the rest of his life behind bars without an opportunity to ever a…

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by Jillian Pikora
Police & Fire
COLD CASE: Bucks County Killer Still Sought After 56 Years COLD CASE: Bucks County Killer Still Sought After 56 Years
Cold CASE: Bucks County Killer Still Sought After 56 Years More than 50 years after she was beaten to death, Alice Swope's killer eludes police.  The 82-year-old was found beaten to death in her Dark Hollow Road home in Pipersville on Jan. 25, 1968, according to state troopers.  She was discovered by a Bell Telephone repairman who had come to check the line and a neighbor who let him in, the Allentown Morning Call reported in a 1974 retrospective.  They found the phone off the hook downstairs and Swope dead in her bed upstairs, the newspaper wrote. She had been beaten with a broom handle and then a standing coatrack, the Mornin…

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by Mac Bullock
Police & Fire
Ax Murder Cold Case: $5K Reward Offered In PA Bartender's 1981 Slaying Ax Murder Cold Case: $5K Reward Offered In PA Bartender's 1981 Slaying
Ax Murder Cold Case: $5K Reward Offered In PA Bartender's 1981 Slaying A literal ax murderer who hacked a man to death has been on the loose in Pennsylvania for more than 40 years. Edward James Joubert spent the last day of his life — Nov. 28, 1981 — working at the Bottom of the Fox Tavern, on the corner of Main and Oak streets in Delaware Water Gap, troopers said. The bar was crowded when Joubert walked around back at 5 p.m. to grab some firewood, police said. He never returned.  The 46-year-old was found murdered behind the tavern hours later, according to troopers.  Joubert, whom friends called Eddie, was a jazz musician and a transpla…

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by Mac Bullock
Police & Fire
COLD CASE: Answers Sought In Escaped Inmate's 1976 PA Murder COLD CASE: Answers Sought In Escaped Inmate's 1976 PA Murder
Cold CASE: Answers Sought In Escaped Inmate's 1976 PA Murder Nearly half a century after his body was located on the side of a Bucks County highway, investigators are still seeking Terrance Schonleber's killer.  The 25-year-old was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds on the north shoulder of Interstate 276 in Upper Southampton on July 15, 1976, state police detectives say.  During the initial investigation, police learned that Schonleber "was involved in criminal activity" with various "associates" in New Jersey and greater Philadelphia, troopers said.  At the time he died, police said the 25-year-old was wanted in the Garden S…

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by Mac Bullock
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20 Years Later, Detectives Still Pursue Cold-Blooded Christmastime Killing Of Clifton Grandma 20 Years Later, Detectives Still Pursue Cold-Blooded Christmastime Killing Of Clifton Grandma
20 Years Later, Detectives Still Pursue Cold-Blooded Christmastime Killing Of Clifton Grandma Before the explosion of social media and cold-case TV shows and streams, a beloved grandmother was stabbed dead in her Clifton home. Known for her generous volunteer work, Gertrude Bizarro, 72, was the matriarch of her family and the de facto grandmother of her Dutch Hill neighborhood, a row of two-story homes near the Passaic border. She was "all-around great woman loved by many," recalled Clifton Police Detective Lt. Robert Bracken, who knew her. Twenty years ago this Saturday, Bizarro's husband took their youngest daughter to a hair appointment in anticipation of a Christmas gathering i…

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by Jerry DeMarco