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COLD CASE: Former Police Chief Shot Dead With Own Gun In Schuylkill County COLD CASE: Former Police Chief Shot Dead With Own Gun In Schuylkill County
Cold CASE: Former Police Chief Shot Dead With Own Gun In Schuylkill County More than 40 years later, state police are still working to solve the New Philadelphia murder of Joseph Mickonis.  The 58-year-old former borough police chief was found with a gunshot wound to the head at his 167 Kimber Street home, according to troopers and a contemporaneous report from the Allentown Morning Call.  Mickonis, by then a part-time officer for Blythe Township police, was discovered by his 16-year-old son and taken to Good Samaritan Hospital in Pottsville, the newspaper reported. He was later airlifted to Geisinger Medical Center in Danville where he died the fol…

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by Mac Bullock
Police & Fire
Cold Case: Nephew Found Lehigh Valley Woman Murdered In Her Home Cold Case: Nephew Found Lehigh Valley Woman Murdered In Her Home
Cold Case: Nephew Found Lehigh Valley Woman Murdered In Her Home Pennsylvania State Police are asking for the public's help to find Rose Josephine Hnath's killer.  The 78-year-old was found murdered on the floor of her North Whitehall home on Jan. 21, 1989, troopers said.  Her nephew had gone over to check on her around 7:30 p.m. after she was uncharacteristically absent from a church service that morning, according to a 2011 Allentown Morning Call report.  She was stabbed and beaten to death and her house had been ransacked, authorities said. Evidence from the scene suggested she fought with her attacker in her final moments, police told…

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by Mac Bullock
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45 Years Later, Young Mom's Lehigh Valley Murder Remains Unsolved 45 Years Later, Young Mom's Lehigh Valley Murder Remains Unsolved
45 Years Later, Young Mom's Lehigh Valley Murder Remains Unsolved Sandra Ann Miller was just 22 years old when police found her dead in her Nazareth Borough home early on Sept. 18, 1978.  Miller, mother of a 10-month-old girl, had been stabbed, beaten, and choked to death in her 115 Spring Street residence, according to Pennsylvania State Police.  In an archival report from the Allentown Morning Call, investigators said they saw evidence of a violent struggle in the home — vases were knocked over, covers were pulled from the bed, and a telephone was off the receiver, indicating a possible attempt to call for help.  A bread knife with …

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by Mac Bullock
Police & Fire
COLD CASE: Birthday Bash Turned Bloody Brutal Murder, PA State Police COLD CASE: Birthday Bash Turned Bloody Brutal Murder, PA State Police
Cold CASE: Birthday Bash Turned Bloody Brutal Murder, PA State Police Decades after David Allen Gross was found beaten and strangled to death in the trunk of his own car, state police investigators are still seeking answers.  The Mount Pocono resident had celebrated his 21st birthday just days before Upper Mount Bethel police found his locked Chevrolet Monza at the Delaware Water Gap's Arrow Island Overlook off Route 611, according to troopers.  In an archival report from the Allentown Morning Call, authorities said Gross was found in the back, under a tarp in a pool of blood just after 1 a.m. on Aug. 11, 1977.  He had been strangled and …

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by Mac Bullock
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NC Man Vowed To 'Shoot Everybody' At PA Middle School With 'Satan Club': DA NC Man Vowed To 'Shoot Everybody' At PA Middle School With 'Satan Club': DA
NC Man Vowed To 'Shoot Everybody' At PA Middle School With 'Satan Club': DA The violent threats that closed a Lehigh Valley middle school last week came from a North Carolina man who was upset about an "After School Satan Club," says Northampton County District Attorney Terence Houck. Saucon Valley School District in Hellertown canceled all afterschool activities Tuesday, Feb. 21, and kept every school closed on Wednesday, Feb., after administrators learned of an unspecified "violent threat," district officials said on Facebook last week.  Posted by Saucon Valley School District on Tuesday, February 21, 2023 Now, in a statement on Tuesday, Feb. 28, DA Houck say…

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by Mac Bullock