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I found the update on the Sara Murphy case. She returned a couple days later and said she had been captured by gypsies.

I'm not sure where the girl was from, I can only speculate that she was from out of town, since no one reported a daughter missing, OR she was an immigrant who came here to find work and had no family here. The house wasn't built until 1894, so I'm primarily looking at articles/information from...

they found a razor in the whole with her and her skull had been smashed. The coroner also thought she might have been cut up, based on the way her arm bones were cut/broken. there was also a rag around her face like she was gagged.

The house was built around 1894. There were many owners/renters between then and 1910. The newspapers say that in the grave with the girl were feathers and a jar of toothpaste. With these two items I narrowed down the time frame to between when a dentist lived in the house, and a family who was...

Not sure why either, I went through newspapers.com and Genealologybank.com for the years 1900 to 1905 and found that many. A lot had just run away to join the theatre's and others eloped. I have actually been keeping an excel sheet that encompasses not just Harrisburg but all of Pennsylvania. It...

In February of 1915, plumbers who were working on a leaky pipe unearthed the bones of a teenage girl who had been buried in the cellar of 133 S 14th Street in Harrisburg PA. Despite an exhaustive search (seriously, it was only a week or two), the coroner and the police failed to identify the...