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COLD CASE: Newly 21-Year-Old PA Man's Brutal Murder Leaves Police Asking Questions COLD CASE: Newly 21-Year-Old PA Man's Brutal Murder Leaves Police Asking Questions
Cold CASE: Newly 21-Year-Old PA Man's Brutal Murder Leaves Police Asking Questions 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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Bryan Kohberger Headed To Idaho Bryan Kohberger Headed To Idaho
Bryan Kohberger Headed To Idaho Suspected Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger waived his extradition at a hearing in Monroe County on Tuesday, Jan. 3, a move that will speed up his transfer to authorities in the Gem State, Pennsylvania State Police said. The 28-year-old Washington State University criminology doctoral candidate was arrested in Mount Pocono on Friday, Dec. 30, and charged with quadruple murder in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students on Nov. 13. Kohberger remained in the Monroe County lockup until his hearing Tuesday.  During a press conference that followed, Pennsylvania State Police Maj. C…

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by Mac Bullock
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'I'll Cut You': PA Inmate Details Kohberger's Alleged Threats Toward Jail Guards In Report 'I'll Cut You': PA Inmate Details Kohberger's Alleged Threats Toward Jail Guards In Report
'I'll Cut You': PA Inmate Details Kohberger's Alleged Threats Toward Jail Guards In Report While awaiting extradition in a Monroe County jail cell, accused Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger has threatened to "cut up" guards and tried exposing himself to other inmates, claims a report by the Daily Mail.  The 28-year-old Washington State University criminology doctoral candidate was arrested in Mount Pocono on Friday, Dec. 30, and charged with quadruple murder in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students on Nov. 13. Valerie Cipollina, a New York woman being held in the same Monroe County lockup for assault, said she heard Kohberger threatening correctional staff and …

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by Mac Bullock
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Suspected Idaho Killer Bryan Kohberger Has Deep Ties To Pennsylvania Suspected Idaho Killer Bryan Kohberger Has Deep Ties To Pennsylvania
Suspected Idaho Killer Bryan Kohberger Has Deep Ties To Pennsylvania "How did you leave the scene? Did you struggle with or fight the victim?" Those were two questions that suspected University of Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger posted to Reddit in a since-deleted thread, apparently while working toward his Master of Arts in criminal justice from DeSales University in Lehigh County. Kohberger, who went on to study criminology at Washington State University's Pullman campus, according to a another  deleted webpage, was arrested in the Pocono Mountains early Friday, Dec. 30 in connection with the deaths of the four students. But before he made national headline…

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by Mac Bullock
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Pennsylvania Predator Extorts NJ Child Into Sending $13,000, Self-Made Porn Pics, Feds Charge Pennsylvania Predator Extorts NJ Child Into Sending $13,000, Self-Made Porn Pics, Feds Charge
Pennsylvania Predator Extorts NJ Child Into Sending $13,000, Self-Made Porn Pics, Feds Charge An 18-year-old Pennsylvania man extorted nearly $13,000 from a New Jersey juvenile in exchange for not posting sexually explicit images that he'd convinced the victim to send him, federal authorities charged. Diego Ramos, 19, of Blakeslee, PA used multiple Instagram accounts and other social media and messaging platforms to successfully coerce the Perth Amboy minor into send him sexually explicit images and videos beginning late this past May, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. He'd already gotten the victim to pay $12,982 to stop him from publicly releasing those images when he "threa…

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by Jerry DeMarco