Charles Merkel

Charles Merkel, a 37-year-old man from Cherry Hill, walked into what should have been a routine workday at the Heritage Office Building on Kings Highway on June 21, 1972. The low, unassuming structure at 383 Kings Highway North, sometimes called the Heritage House or Heritage Office Building, housed the local employment agency Key Personnel, Inc., along with other offices, the kind of place people visited in hopes of finding a new start or steady work. That early summer afternoon, though, the bu ...

Charles R Merkel (1934-1972)