The girl in the grave

A 106-year mystery: Who killed the teen whose bones were buried in a Harrisburg home?
News that the remains of a teenage girl had been found in the basement of a Harrisburg row home ignited a media frenzy, with reporters from each of Harrisburg's five fiercely competitive newspapers scouring the streets for new angles on the story. Most resorted to printing open speculation.
By John Luciew | jluciew@pennlive.com

It was routine muck work, and a smelly job at that.

A sewer leak had transformed the basement of a Harrisburg row home into a muddy, stinky swamp.

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John Luciew
John Luciew is an enterprise and trends reporter with PennLive and The Patriot-News, as well as a published mystery author. He writes on a variety of topics. John is also a two-time winner of the Distinguished Writing Award from the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association, in addition to other statewide journalism honors and national journalism honors from Scripps Howard and Sigma Delta Chi.
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