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Ben Around wrote:

I can't remember the girls name, but she was shot (supposedly by her husband) in Washington Twp. or there abouts. When the first State Trooper arrived minutes later, the Lieutenant in charge of the C-burg barracks was already there. It was never explained why he was there or how he could have gotten from C-burg where he was supposed to be in such a short time. This same lieutenant was accused by a local car dealer (I believe his name was Barry Suhrie) for jamming him up in a cocaine deal. Suhrie got jail time and the lieutenant wound up being transferred to the academy in Hershey. One of the retired troopers involved was starting to write a book about these little secrets, and was visited by people from Harrisburg who convinced him it was not in his best interest to continue. He did not. As for Debbie Witmer, wasn't it convenient for PSP to lose the skeletal remains about the time DNA testing came into use.

Smoke and Sunshine wrote:

I believe that four people were shot in that area around the time the "mountain man" took Peggy Ann but no one was killed and no one was sure that Mr. Hollenbaugh did those shootings. That was just speculation.

Alan Batterman wrote:

It was determined that the Mountain Man was killed by a Pennsylvania state trooper, although some newspapers that came out less than 24 hours later said that Larry Rubeck had shot him. By the way, Larry and David Rubeck were not twins. Larry was 15 at the time, David 17. Hollenbaugh was definately responsible for the Ned Price and Christine Devinney shootings, but probably not for every shooting incident in the Shade Gap area from 1963 to 1966.
The movie "Cry in the Wild: The Taking of Peggy Ann" was first shown on NBC TV at 9 PM, Monday, May 6, 1991. It was shown again on Sunday, July 12, 1992. The script was terrible. It got almost every scene wrong. And it left out a number of key events during the kidnapping: The Mountain Man taking Peggy Ann through a culvert under the Pennsylvania Turnpike; Him chaining Peggy Ann to a tree during his first attempt to fetch his dogs; His unsuccessful attempt to get out of the search area by going under a bridge near Fort Littleton are examples. And they were totally detached from reality. They showed a newspaper called "The Shade Gap Journal"--as if a hamlet with a population of less than 200 could support a daily paper. And they showed Peggy Ann going to an old-fashioned schoolhouse called "Shade Gap Community School" when actually she attended Southern Huntingdon County High School, a modern central high school. It was filmed on the West Coast which meant the forest looked all wrong. And the casting was awful. Most of the actors and actresses looked nothing like the people they played, especially those who played Eugene and Mildred Bradnick. I'm sorry Peggy Ann didn't continue to tell the producers to take a flying leap off the Golden Gate Bridge.
Around Saturday, May 21, while recovering at the Fulton County Medical Center, Peggy Ann was interviewed by the media. She was discharged on Wednesday, June 1. Her story was published in the July 16, 1966 Saturday Evening Post. On Thursday, March 23, 1967, she married Darrell Logan and moved to Lewistown, Pennsylvania. Her daughter, Alicia, is from that marriage. She became widowed. Around 1993 she remarried.

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Alan Batterman wrote:

<quoted text> What does this have to do with Peggy Ann Bradnick?

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Eileen wrote:

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She was a bride from Russia. I remember that story now. It took them a long time to find out who she was. She had a fat, controlling, jealous husband.