Ted Hessler leaned on a silver metal cane Friday in the damp cold and silently watched a half-dozen police officers shovel away the cold earth of the tot's grave.
The retired Springfield Township officer couldn't help but think back 29 years - to February 1979 - when he found the little girl's beaten and burned body.
"I could see the smoke in the distance," said Hessler, 76, who rushed to the field near where Franciscan Hospital Mount Airy now stands. "When I got there, I found a little girl. I knew right away she was gone."
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The retired Springfield Township officer couldn't help but think back 29 years - to February 1979 - when he found the little girl's beaten and burned body.
"I could see the smoke in the distance," said Hessler, 76, who rushed to the field near where Franciscan Hospital Mount Airy now stands. "When I got there, I found a little girl. I knew right away she was gone."
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