PA Peggy Sue Hogue, 24, Perry Twp, 12 June 1983

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The following morning, a couple of boys found Peggy Sue Hogue’s badly beaten remains along the Connoquenessing Creek, just below River Road in Perry Township.

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Nearly 31 years later, the final moments of Peggy Sue Hogue’s life remain a mystery. Debbie Hogue said the young woman had gone to the now-closed Park Gate Grill, which straddled the Beaver-Lawrence county line in Wayne and North Sewickley townships.

She reportedly left the bar at about 5 a.m. Sunday and was last seen walking toward her home -- which would have required going through Ellwood City. Chuck Hall, a friend of the Hogue family who remembers the tavern well, said it was cited regularly for staying open after hours.

Debbie said her niece was sexually assaulted. Had her murder taken place a few years later, DNA evidence might have enabled police to find her killer. But by the time investigators arrived at the location where her body was found, the crime scene had likely been compromised, with the possibility that crucial evidence was destroyed.

30 years, two homicide victims, one family

 

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Taken from the New Castle News, June 14th, 1999

A 16 year-old Lawrence County homicide is the latest featured case for Pennsylvania Crime Stoppers. The organization is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to an arrest in the killing of Peggy Sue Hogue. The 24-year-old’s body was found the morning of June 12, 1983, in a ravine just off River Road. She died from blunt force trauma to the head and neck and had what appeared to be choke marks on her throat. State police said Hogue had been at the Park Gate bar in Ellwood City during the early morning hours of that day and was last seen alive about 5 am. hitchhiking along Lawrence Avenue, just outside Elwood City. al< Investigators said additional or Cal Peggy Sue Hogue updated information will increase their chances of arresting the person or persons involved.