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You now hold the keys to PennLive's True Crime Pa. vault of in-depth reporting on some of the Keystone State's most intriguing crime cases over the years. These are cold cases, notorious cases and heart-breaking cases from across Pennsylvania -- and across the decades.
You'll meet Carlisle's Murdered Madame, Bessie Jones. You'll be inside the room for former Pa. Treasurer Budd Dwyer's shocking suicide press conference. And you'll plunge more than a century into Harrisburg's past in hopes of discovering who buried the girl in the Murder House's basement grave.
They are just a few of the real-life mysteries in the True Crime Pa. vault. More in-depth reports and investigations will be added all the time.
True Crime Pa. is the place where victims always matter, no statutes of limitations apply, cold cases are never closed and the impacts of violence echo through time.
Settle in, open a cold case and see if you can unlock the ultimate secret to a Pa. crime that's still out there, waiting to be solved.
Corpse’s ride to Harrisburg and back began with homicide in the middle of nowhere: police
An upstate homicide sparks a nearly 300-mile road trip to Harrisburg and back, all the while with a sleeping bag-encased body in the trunk.
Skeletal remains of Pa. woman identified after nearly 30 years
The woman had been known only as “Sugarloaf Jane Doe” until modern DNA technology allowed the Pennsylvania State Police to finally identify her.
Pa. woman missing since 1970 declared dead, paving way for homicide investigation
The 22-year-old was married, possibly pregnant and the mother of a toddler when she was reported missing 50+ years ago from Luzerne County.
Skull found in Dauphin County belonged to woman who went missing after stormy life
After Heike Leich, 47, disappeared from her West Hanover Township home in 2007, police suspected she was the victim of homicide.
Tracy Kroh murder suspect, 91, is unconscious during competency hearing: ‘He looks dead’
Mark Eugene Warfel was slumped in a chair, eyes-closed, unmoving, seemingly unconscious -- wrapped snugly in a blanket.
Man sentenced in 2001 Pa. cold-case homicide to be set free soon
Brian Quinn has been in jail without bail since March 2022.
These 11 Dauphin County cold case homicides could get hot as new detective keeps digging
There’s a shopkeeper killing from 1972. A police lieutenant gunned down in 1981. A Bosnian immigrant shot dead in her driveway, among others.
‘For the people whose lives they took’: Dauphin County heats up cold case probes
Rodney V. George, a retired fed, is Dauphin County’s first full-time cold case detective.
Accident or murder? Police, families still baffled by 2002 deaths of boys on rural western Pa. road
Nobody has been charged more than 21 years after two Pa. boys were killed on an isolated road.
The mystery of a slain prosecutor persists after 20 years
Much of Jonathan Luna's case is strange. And many questions asked two decades ago remain unanswered.
Ellen Greenberg’s parents appeal suicide ruling in her brutal stabbing to Pa. Supreme Court
“It been almost 13 years. We're used to this. But that doesn’t mean we’ve given up,” Ellen Greenberg’s mother said.
Tracy Kroh cold-case suspect claims he’s actually ‘the guy that solved the case’
Saying he knows who attacked the Dauphin County girl in 1989, he told Tracy's sister that her killer kept clothing as a souvenir.
Solving Tracy Kroh’s cold case could hinge on 90-year-old ‘incompetent’ suspect
Tracy Kroh, 17, disappeared in 1989 from Dauphin County. The 90-year-old has more connections to her family than anyone realized back then.
‘Zombie Hunter’ who beheaded Cumberland County woman sentenced to death
“The defendant did not just murder them. He brutalized them,” the Arizona judge said in condemning Bryan Patrick Miller to die.
PennLive reporter discusses the death of Ellen Greenberg, and the debate over whether her death was homicide or suicide | Today in Pa.
This special “Today in Pa.” interview welcomes back PennLive reporter, John Luciew, to discuss his latest series on the death of Ellen Greenberg.
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