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The Daily Crime

"I knew that we were going to find the assailant"

The Daily Crime

VAULT Studios

True Crime

4.3627 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Investigators in Pennsylvania believe they have cracked the case of a brutal rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl from 1964. WNEP Reporter Amanda Eustice tells us how police identified the killer after so many decades. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Coming up.

0:02.9

The way you lived changed after March 18th of 1964.

0:07.6

I hope that this brings some type of closure for your family.

0:11.7

I really do.

0:12.6

For Vault Studios, I'm Will Johnson.

0:14.5

You're listening to The Daily Crime.

0:24.9

In Pennsylvania, a case is closed after 57 years,

0:29.4

and a 20-year-old college student was on the team of investigators cracking this one.

0:34.4

After nearly six decades, there is finally justice for Maurice Chivalra.

0:39.0

Troopers say it is the oldest case in state history to be solved through DNA evidence and one of the oldest in the country. The nine-year-old from Hazleton was raped and murdered on

0:44.4

March 18th, 1964. Now that we know the individual, it gives us a sense of closure, not full closure, we'll never have that, but a sense of closure that we know the individual that did it,

1:00.5

and that the individual isn't out committing the same crime and hurting other young girls like Maurice.

1:13.0

I'm joined by Amanda Eustace, a reporter at WNEP in Pennsylvania.

1:17.0

Amanda, thanks for being here with us. We appreciate it.

1:19.0

Of course. Thanks. Well, no problem.

1:20.9

Let's go back to 1964, and there is so much happening just recently in this story.

1:27.3

But let's start back then in March of 1964 and just the brutal murder of a nine-year-old girl.

1:35.0

Yeah, so basically what we got in the gist of what police has been kind of sharing all these years when it happened.

1:43.3

And then all these years later was Marie San Chivorella,

1:46.1

she was walking to school, March 18, 1964, and she was kidnapped. She was nine years old.

1:54.9

She was a girl out of Hazleton. You know, she has four siblings. And from the way that her family described her,

2:03.5

she was a shy girl. So, so, you know, they didn't think that this was something that maybe would

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