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Jean Tuggy

Case from Pine-grove-mills, PA dated Jan 21, 2016

Victim Details

Jean Tuggy

Female

White / Caucasian

Pine-grove-mills

PA

2016-01-21

60

Jean

Tuggy

07/24/2026

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Jean Tuggy, a 60-year-old woman from Pine Grove Mills, PA, was tragically shot and killed in her home on January 21, 2016. The case went cold initially, but it was reopened years later as part of an effort to solve unsolved murder cases. Investigators identified Jean Tuggy's former coworker at Wegmans grocery store, Christopher Kowalski, as a potential suspect. Kowalski had developed a friendship with Jean and became romantically interested in her.

Kowalski, who owned a 9mm pistol at the ...
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