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Nelson Reymeyer

True Crime Stories From York County True Crime Stories From York County
True Crime Stories From York County You don’t need to live in a teeming metropolis to find fascinating and macabre true-crime stories. With heart-wrenching and eerie stories, York County has seen its fair share of shocking crimes. We have to go back almost 100 years for one of York’s most infamous crimes. John Blymire grew to believe that his acquaintance and suspected "witch" Nelson Reymeyer hexed him and was responsible for his illnesses, the death of two children, and other misfortune.  In late November 1928, Blymire and two accomplices visited Rehmeyer at his home in Stewartstown, beat him, strangled him, and burned the …