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COLD CASE: Bucks County Killer Still Sought After 56 Years COLD CASE: Bucks County Killer Still Sought After 56 Years
Cold CASE: Bucks County Killer Still Sought After 56 Years 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