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It could be, if she had been driving him or was a neighbor. In my county, Amish people often have a cell phone for business or a phone in an outbuilding at home. I work at a place where many of our customers are Amish from all over PA and beyond, and some of the people in more remote/rural...

So was the gunshot wound story inaccurate, or were the cuts in addition to the gunshot wound?

There’s a book written by the mother of the Nickel Mines shooter in which she details the forgiveness and ongoing friendships that came from that tragedy. It’s called “Forgiven: The Amish School Shooting, a Mother's Love, and a Story of Remarkable Grace.” She has passed away now, but she was a...

Probably that someone got a good deal on purple roofing, lol. It looks to me from the footage of the crime scene that it’s an area where pole buildings with metal roofing would be common. We have one at our house built by an Amish company, and our roof is red metal.

Several other random thoughts I’ve had about this case… The children were toddlers, one of the articles verified. It would be interesting to know if they’ve been able to describe anything they heard or saw. Most Amish children don’t have much exposure to spoken English until they are school...

Yes, that is true, in my experience. Except for young people who do wear some brighter sneakers with contrasting stripes, Amish men and women often wear plain black sneakers.

Has anyone seen a mention of gunshot wounds in any source other than the Jennifer Borrasso report posted above?

My guess is that her two children were rather young. Amish women where I am from in PA usually marry at about 18 or 19, so I don’t think they’d be much older than toddlers/preschoolers. The scooter shown at the house might have belonged to someone who came to the house after the tragedy was...

This isn’t a very populated area of the state, FWIW. Right or wrong, a lot of people assume that Amish people keep large amount of cash in their homes. I’m thinking it could be a robbery that went bad.

It seems like there is video surveillance of Justine in the hallways before and after her visit to the man’s apartment. If someone were chasing her, as her mother speculates, you’d think there’d be some kind of footage showing that person.

Ugh, what a monster. I imagine there are no security cameras at Harvest Rd.

The logistics here are puzzling me. How could he bury a body, dig it up, and move it to a deep hole presumably in a wooded area and rebury it all alone? My feeling is that someone else was involved and either turned on Justo out of a guilty conscience or had reason to make a deal to save his own...

Even if you aren’t the primary caregiver for a sibling with special needs, you can feel a lot of resentment sometimes when everything in the household seems to revolve around that one person. Especially as a teen, it can be a real mixed bag of emotions. On one hand, you don’t get the parental...

It’s terrible that’s even a thing.

Interesting point about her communicating with someone presumably before the murder. That person called the police shortly after they responded to the murder—I was wondering if/how they knew something was happening. Did they live close? Did they hear from her after the murder too?

As a local, I’ll offer my opinions on the neighborhood. The area around Lancaster Country Day School is called School Lane Hills. It’s the traditional “old money” neighborhood for the city of Lancaster, PA. In it, you’ll find anything from breathtaking mansions from the 1920s in the oldest area...

Wow, another Lancaster County case making national headlines. I was surprised yesterday to see the girl’s name and picture all over our local media, but, as someone pointed out above, PA offers no special privacy for a minor charged with homicide. Seems on its face to be an open-and-shut case...

Thanks for the information. So the texts might not be recoverable by any means. Too bad.

According to this latest article, the detective learned of the texts from cell phone records he obtained. (@Lyanna, it says JS had an LG smartphone, so I’m assuming that would be android and could be emojis.) But when JS was identified as a suspect, it was weeks after those texts would have been...

Of course, my imagination is running wild at the term “multimedia messages.” Maybe they contain photos or video that give important clues, if they aren’t actually incriminating.