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Cynthia Nosek:1979, Trevorton, Pennsylvania

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       Cynthia Nosek was born on December 8th, 1960 to Joann Haring Wagner and Jerome Nosek in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Her father does not seem to have been in her life very much. His address was listed as unknown in her obituary.)    Cynthia attended Mahanoy Area High School in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania. That is east of Shamokin and south of Hazelton if you are thinking about any other recent cases we have discussed. Mahanoy City is west of Philadelphia out in coal country in central Pennsylvania. Cynthia’s family lived in Barnesville.    This area of Pennsylvania is beautiful. Picture rolling forested hills and valleys. Streams and rivers run through the land. People fish and hunt for recreation. The fall colors are very beautiful as well. (Hunting and fishing involve quite a bit of lead exposure. Combine that with cheap lead paint in blue collar housing a lead in the gasoline and it is not surprising that so many violent kille...
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Monica Renee Jones:1979, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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    Monica Renee Jones   Monica Renee Jones was born on July 31st, 1960 to Mr. and Mrs. Hilton Jones. She grew up in Philadelphia. Monica had 2 older brothers, Warren and Robert.    Monica graduated in 1978 from Girl’s High School in Philadelphia, which is a magnet school for gifted and talented students. Monica was a very bright and serious student who wanted to become a pediatrician or a child psychologist.    Monica came from a studious and very accomplished family. Her brother, Robert Jones, was an aide to Pennsylvania State Supreme Court Justice, Robert N.C. Nix.    In the Fall of 1978, She went off to college. Monica attended the University of Pittsburgh, which is also known as Pitt, planning to study for her career in medicine. Pitt was known to be an excellent school for science.    On Wednesday, January 3rd, 1979, at around 11 p.m. Monica went down to the laundry room. She had clothes in the dryer th...
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Doris Joanne Girtz:Found 1979, Watts Township, Pennsylvania

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     Doris J. Girtz circa 1971   Doris Joanne Girtz was born in 1954 or 1955.    She went to Streetsboro High School in Streetsboro, Ohio. That is a small town east of the Cleveland/Akron area along Interstate 80.    I haven’t been able to find out much about her early life. I did find that she married a man named Robert L. Keeton on September 13th, 1973. I didn’t find anything in the newspapers about their wedding. I found that the two divorced in 1974. Robert Keeton sued for divorce on the grounds of gross neglect of duty. Was Doris already missing then? Or had the marriage just broken down?   The next time the name "Doris Joanne Girtz" is found in any available documents it was because her body was finally identified.    In late June of 1979 a man was out rock collecting along the Juniata River in Watts Township near Duncannon, Pennsylvania. He happened upon a set of skeletal remains and contacted the ...
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