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In the early-hours darkness of **April 25, 1951**, the lifeless body of **8-year-old Caucasian female Jane Marie Althoff** was found slumped against the passenger door of a pickup parked at the Penn-Premier Shows carnival on Ninth Street in Trainer, Pennsylvania. She had vanished from the midway the evening before while trailing her brothers through a crowd of more than 2,000 fairgoers. A coroner determined she had been choked or smothered four-to-five hours earlier; there were no obvious knife ...
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  • Pennsylvania: After 37 Years, An Arrest | TIME
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