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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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