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The "American Tragedy" Murder
The
murder of Freda McKechnie in summer of 1934 near Sandy Beach
was quickly dubbed the “American
Tragedy Murder” in the national
press because of its striking similarity to the plot of a popular
1925 Theodore Dreiser novel of the same name
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The Sugar Hollow Murder
The Memorial Day 1945 murder of Charles "Chick" Randall puzzled
Harvey's Lake police chief Fred Swanson. Randall ran a row boat
concession at the lake and seemed to have no enemies. The sensational
crime was written up in Crime Detective magazine.
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The Alice Crispell Mystery
The discovery of young Alice Crispell's body
floating in the lake on July 11, 1913 was the beginning
of a sensational murder mystery. Was she murdered or was it suicide?
A man was charged with the crime, but the case was never solved.
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The Legend of
Chief John T. Ruth
It was the Roaring Twenties. Harvey's
Lake Police Chief John T. Ruth was tough. He couldn't be bought. He
took on the illegal stills and the money crowd. He was murdered.
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Murder at the Casino: The Dorothy Gilhool Case
From mid-December 1953 to the end of September 1954 Northeastern Pennsylvania was transfixed by the murder of Dorothy Casey Gilhool at the Lake a week before Christmas 1953. The arrest of Paul Graver, a Bingo worker at the Sunset Casino, seemingly solved the murder.
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