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Man Shot Dead At North Philly Boarding House, Detectives Say Man Shot Dead At North Philly Boarding House, Detectives Say
Man Shot Dead At North Philly Boarding House, Detectives Say One man was shot to death in a North Philadelphia boarding house on Tuesday night, Feb. 20, city police told Daily Voice.  It happened on the 5400 block of North 5th Street just after 8 p.m., authorities said.  The victim, 21, was found with a single gunshot wound to the head and pronounced dead at the scene, according to police. His name was not reported.  No weapons were recovered and no arrests have been made, PPD added. The killing remains under investigation. 

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by Mac Bullock
Police & Fire
COLD CASE: Bucks County Killer Still Sought After 56 Years COLD CASE: Bucks County Killer Still Sought After 56 Years
Cold CASE: Alice Swope Found Murdered In Pipersville Home 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 1976 Bucks County Murder COLD CASE: Answers Sought In 1976 Bucks County Murder
Cold CASE: Answers Sought In 1976 Bucks County 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
Police & Fire
Answers Sought In Bucks Woman's Mysterious 1960 Killing Answers Sought In Bucks Woman's Mysterious 1960 Killing
Answers Sought In Bucks Woman's Mysterious 1960 Killing It's been more than 60 years since Helen Drummond Fischer was killed, and detectives are still looking for answers.  The 55-year-old was found deadwith "numerous injuries" in her Pebble Hill Road home in Doylestown on Feb. 17, 1960, said investigators with the Pennsylvania State Police.  A Chicago native, Fischer ran her own travel agency business out of her house, police said. She was planning to divorce her estranged husband, the late "millionaire industrialist" Kermit Fischer, and was pressing assault charges against him at the time of her death, police said.  Helen Drumm…

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by Mac Bullock
Police & Fire
Philly Area Cold Case Killer Sought By State Police Philly Area Cold Case Killer Sought By State Police
Philly Area Cold Case Killer Sought By State Police Do you know this man?  Vincente Lopez, now believed to be 79, is the top suspect in an unsolved Chester County murder from more than 40 years ago, Pennsylvania State Police said in a release.  Investigators believe Lopez was riding through Marlborough Township in an orange Chevrolet Nova on July 31, 1987.  The car, driven by a now-deceased friend, stopped in front of a boarding house for mushroom farm workers on Schoolhouse Road. Lopez was sitting in the passenger seat, police said.  Lopez began a conversation with a man outside the car, but the two began to argue, aut…

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by Mac Bullock
News
20 Years Later, Detectives Still Pursue Christmastime Killing Of NJ Grandma 20 Years Later, Detectives Still Pursue Christmastime Killing Of NJ Grandma
20 Years Later, Detectives Still Pursue Christmastime Killing Of NJ 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