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Case Description

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On a December 2019 evening, in a wooded area just north of Tyrone, Pennsylvania, two men were out hunting whitetail deer. The tranquility of the dusk was shattered by the discharge of a rifle, a sound that would tragically alter the course of both of their lives. 42-year-old Mahlon Osterhout, a male from Tyrone, was fatally wounded in what would later be determined by state police to be a hunting accident.

His hunting companion that day was 56-year-old John J. Markel, also of Tyrone. Acco ...Read More

Victim Details

Mahlon C. Osterhout Jr

Male

White / Caucasian

Tyrone

PA

2019-12-02

42

Mahlon

Osterhout

05/11/2026