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March 9 2025 Very lengthy article with lots of detail.
What happened to Marguerite Keota? Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, homicide still open 71 years later
The 22-year-old was last seen walking home from a dance on March 3, 1954. Her body was found three days later.
www.nbcnews.com
''March 2, 1954.
Around 8:00 p.m., Marguerite and a few friends went to a dance just outside Phoenixville.
Detective Sergeant Patrick Mark of the Phoenixville Police Department, who has reviewed the reports from the investigation, says the group left around 9:40 p.m. to go to another dance, this one at the Polish American Citizens Club on the north side of town. “They were there till about 12:00 in the morning on the — into the third of March, 1954,” he told Dateline. ''
“Residents at 361 Washington Avenue stated they heard a terrible shrill screaming at 12:45 a.m. They heard a scramble in the alleyway,” Mark said. “Then the residents reported they saw a man carrying a woman under his arms towards Lincoln Avenue, and then that person went north down on Lincoln Avenue.”
Marguerite Keota’s body was found in a cesspool under an outhouse behind an abandoned schoolhouse in Schuylkill Township, Pennsylvania — less than three miles from where she was last seen.
“The building portion of [the outhouse] was still standing, and then they looked in, um, inside of the hole and saw the body,” Det. Sgt. Mark told Dateline. “And then [police] dismantled the outhouse to get to the body.”
''Mark says Marguerite had been stabbed three times on the left side of her chest, leaving a “massive hemothorax” on her left side. The weapon was never recovered, but it was determined to be a “straight, dagger-like blade with a double sharp edge,” Mark said.
There was also “material found in the bronchial tree,” from the cesspool, which would indicate that Marguerite was likely still alive when she was put there. She also had superficial abrasions on the left side of her neck and the right side of her face. She had not been sexually assaulted.''
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