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Former Pastor Charged with 1975 Murder of 8-Year-Old Pennsylvania Girl on Her Way to Bible Camp

David Zandstra has been charged with the kidnapping and murder of Gretchen Harrington, whose remains were found in a state park two months after she disappeared.

A retired pastor has been arrested and charged with the kidnapping and murder of an 8-year-old girl on her way to a summer Bible camp nearly 50 years ago.

David Zandstra, 83 — who resides in Marietta, Georgia — confessed to the August 1975 murder of Gretchen Harrington in Broomall, Pennsylvania, after investigators interviewed him, according to a statement by the Delaware County District Attorney’s Office. Read the full story here ▶