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COLD CASE: Trip Wire On Lehigh Valley Trail Led To Teen Dirtbiker's Death, Police Say COLD CASE: Trip Wire On Lehigh Valley Trail Led To Teen Dirtbiker's Death, Police Say
Cold CASE: Trip Wire On Lehigh Valley Trail Led To Teen Dirtbiker's Death, Police Say State police investigators are looking for tips in the 1992 death of Christopher Keller.  The 15-year-old was riding his Kawasaki dirtbike on Sept. 24, 1992, when he struck an electrical cable strung between two trees, troopers say.  According to a contemporaneous report from the Allentown Morning Call, the wire slashed his windpipe and he fell, fracturing his skull. A backseat passenger was also thrown from the bike but not seriously injured.  It happened on a trail along railroad tracks parallel to the Lehigh River in North Whitehall, state police say.  The…

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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
Joseph Mickonis Murder: PSP Seek Tips In 1983 Cold Case 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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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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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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Birthday Bash Turned Bloody Brutal Murder, Reward Offered: PA State Police Birthday Bash Turned Bloody Brutal Murder, Reward Offered: PA State Police
Birthday Bash Turned Bloody Brutal Murder, Reward Offered: 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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This Bath Mat Could Be Key To Solving PA Infant's 1993 Death, State Police Say This Bath Mat Could Be Key To Solving PA Infant's 1993 Death, State Police Say
This Bath Mat Could Be Key To Solving PA Infant's 1993 Death, State Police Say Nearly 30 years after an infant girl was found dead in a trash bag off the side of a Schuylkill County backroad, state police investigators are still trying to learn her name.  The child, known to authorities only as Baby Jane Doe, was lifeless when she was found in New Castle Township on June 13, 1993, troopers said in a release. She was wrapped in a blanket and a bath mat before being placed in the bag, state police said. In a 1993 article, the Allentown Morning Call reported that the bag was thrown into the woods from the north edge of Darkwater Lane, about three-quarters of a mile off…

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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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Berks Case Still Cold: Who Killed Lousia Tseng Krenzel? Berks Case Still Cold: Who Killed Lousia Tseng Krenzel?
Berks Case Still Cold: Who Killed Lousia Tseng Krenzel? It's been eight years since Lousia Tseng Krenzel was killed, and Pennsylvania State Police are still searching for answers. The 48-year-old Taiwan native was shoveling snow at her Long Lane home in rural Pike Township on Jan. 22, 2014, troopers said in a release.  At about 8 p.m. that night, she was found dead in the driveway by her estranged husband Jules Krenzel, reported the Reading Eagle that month.  She'd suffered multiple gunshot wounds, including one through the heart. More bullets were found embedded in the garage door, about five feet from where Louisa had been standing, the news…

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by Mac Bullock