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Peggy Reber: Cold Casenew
A grand jury looks for a killer but only finds more villains in the 1968 Peggy Reber murder.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Kevin Uhrich and Martha Shaak |
08-19-2009 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Peggy Reber, cold cases
A Small Town Revisits the Grisly Torture and Slaying Case of a Teenage Girlnew
Cliff Roland, who was chief of detectives with the Lebanon Police Department in 1968, believes Morris Purcell may have been involved in the Peggy Reber slaying. But if he was involved, Roland says, he wasn't the only one.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Martha Shaak and Kevin Uhrich |
08-19-2009 |
Crime & Justice
Justice Is Curbed in the Peggy Reber Casenew
Will a conflict of interest keep a small town from reaching closure on a 40-year-old murder mystery?
Philadelphia Weekly |
Kevin Uhrich and Martha Shaak |
12-17-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Forty Years After Her Murder, Peggy Reber May be Exhumednew
Authorities are considering exhuming the body of Margaret Lynn "Peggy" Reber, a teenager whose sadistic torture and murder nearly 40 years ago remains unsolved. However, the exhumation was just one of a number of recent dramatic twists in the more than two-year reinvestigation by local police.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Kevin Uhrich and Martha Shaak |
04-11-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Peggy Reber, crime & justice
Death in the House of Broken Heartsnew

A small Pennsylvania town revisits the grisly four-decade-old torture and slaying case of a teenage girl.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Martha Shaak and Kevin Uhrich |
01-22-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice