#BonusBite “PASTOR ARRESTED FOR 1975 MURDER OF YOUNG GIRL” #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 27 July 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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IN THIS EPISODE: An 83-year-old former pastor, David Zandstra, has been arrested for the 1975 murder of eight-year-old Gretchen Harrington.
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| 1:07.0 | From all that's interesting.com, after almost 50 years, Pennsylvania pastor arrested for murder of 8-year-old girl who was attending |
| 1:15.3 | his Bible camp by Kaleena Frega. |
| 1:19.0 | On a summer day in 1975, 8-year-old Gretchen Harrington was killed while walking to Bible Camp in Brumall, Pennsylvania. |
| 1:27.0 | Now, a pastor who knew the Harrington family has been charged with her murder. |
| 1:32.0 | Charges have been brought against David Zandstra, 83 of Marietta, Georgia, the Delaware County District Attorney's Office explained in a statement, |
| 1:40.0 | noting that Zandstra had confessed. |
| 1:42.0 | Zandstra had confessed. |
| 1:42.8 | Zandstra has been charged with criminal homicide, murder of the first, second, and third degree, |
| 1:47.8 | as well as kidnapping of a minor and the possession of an instrument of crime. |
| 1:52.6 | The story began on August 15, 1975, when Gretchen set out to attend a Bible camp |
| 1:58.6 | held at two churches, the Trinity Church Chapel Christian Reform Church, where Zandstra was pastor, and the |
| 2:05.2 | Reformed Presbyterian Church where her father was the pastor. |
| 2:09.3 | When Gretchen failed to appear at her father's church later that morning. He called Trinity Church and spoke |
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