Getting away with imaginary murder | News, Sports, Jobs
LOU BERNARD September of 1948 got exciting really fast. The headline hit the front page of the Express: “Girl Picked Up Here Tells Of Cal. Murder.” “There is a girl in Clinton County Jail today who says she knows where police will find the burned body of a murdered woman,” the article read. “Whether her story is true remains for police teletype machines at State Police barracks to verify.” It began when police picked up a girl trying to hitchhike out of Lock Haven. Their lives would have been easier if they’d just ignored her and let her go, but they didn’t know that at the ti...