On July 11, 1995, the remains of a female victim were discovered in East Caln Township in Chester County Pennsylvania. The victim is believed to have been 17 to 25 years of age at the time of death. Authorities believe that the estimated date of death is 3-7 days prior to discovery. Cause of death was homicidal violence.

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Philadelphia Police are seeking to identify two individuals recorded by surveillance camera in connection with an aggravated assault with a handgun that occurred on April 22, 2013, around 6:45 p.m. near the corner of the 3300 block of North 16th street.

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On Earth Day we remember Ira Einhorn, hippy guru and a founder of this special day, first celebrated in Philadelphia in 1970. He is also known for the 1977 premeditated murder of his ex-girlfriend, Holly Maddux, whose body he stuffed in a trunk that he was never able to get rid of.

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Police in Pennsylvania received a call about a dog, whose name has not been released, that was left unattended in a car and managed to get the vehicle into drive. They are not saying if this was an attempt on the dog’s part to take the car out for a joyride.

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The week of March 18, 2013, Butler County, Ohio prosecutor, Mike Gmoser filed a lighthearted, though very real, criminal complaint against the groundhog Punxsutawney Phil for predicting an early spring, when we are obviously still very much in the throes of winter.

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On March 25, 1987, police entered the dingy Philadelphia basement where Gary Heidnik had kept and tortured women he’d kidnapped off the street. Two women, chained to a pipe, were asleep under a dirty blanket. When police woke them, they screamed in terror until they were reassured that help had finally arrived.

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The Freeman boys had always been a handful, drinking beer from the age of six, and becoming druggie, racist skinheads in their teen years. No one, however, in the small community ever imagined the cold-blooded slaughter they would visit on their family on February 27, 1995.

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Eight years ago, these two former lovers met for a date on busy South Street in Philadelphia — and disappeared without a trace.

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Prosecutors were sure that Morgan Mengel was just as guilty as her lover, Stephen Shappell, for the murder of her husband. Shappell had already been convicted, but in Mengel’s case the judge declared a mistrial. Prosecutors, however, found evidence so damaging to Mengel’s defense that she could only plead guilty to all charges.

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Police in Pennsylvania are still seeking to identify and arrest some of the people in two recent school bus stop brawls in Swissvale that involved both students and parents. The fact that were so many people involved, 60-70, has police calling the incidents riots.

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