Robert Atkins was charged with first-degree murder, second-degree murder and two counts of arson and robbery in the death of Joy Hibbs of Croydon in 1991.
Bucks County officials announce an arrest of a 56-year-old man in connection with in an April 1991 cold case homicide, in which a 35-year-old woman was found murdered and her home intentionally set on fire.
$50K reward offered for answers in decades-old Bucks County cold case
$50K reward offered for answers in decades-old Bucks County cold case
The family of a slain Bucks County woman is increasing their reward to $50,000 for information that helps solve her murder.
BUCKS COUNTY, Pa. - The family of a slain Bucks County woman is increasing their reward to $50,000 for information or answers to solve her murder. This person not only took my mother they took a family and destroyed it they have no idea, said Hibbs daughter.
Time hasn’t lifted pain for the daughter of Joy Hibbs, a Bucks County woman who was murdered in her home in Croydon Estates Development in 1991.
One of the few remaining photos of Joy Hibbs shows her sitting at a kitchen table, grinning widely as she holds her infant son. Countless other snapshots and family keepsakes have been lost, ravaged by time or destroyed in the Bucks County fire that hid the tracks of the person who killed her 30 years ago. Charlie Hibbs keeps the photo on the wall of his home in Westport, Wash., a fishing .