Terrifying 43 Yr Old Cold Case Solved In Unexpected Way & Lost Family In The Rockies - Twisted News
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🗓️ 16 August 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Twisted News, I'm Andrew, and today we're digging into a dark story about |
| 0:06.5 | a man whom his community was the last person they thought would commit a heinous crime. |
| 0:12.4 | And then we cover a family looking for a simpler life, to live off the grid only to be |
| 0:17.9 | faced with the harsh realities of nature, gathered if his scary mysteries twisted news. |
| 0:25.7 | Number 1. Pastor arrested for murder of a young girl. |
| 0:33.3 | It was a 48-year-old cold case that recently got solved, and the person responsible |
| 0:38.8 | is someone you'd least expect or perhaps if you watch this channel, maybe they'd be your |
| 0:44.0 | number one suspect. This is the story of Gretchen Harrington, an evil man who hid behind a robe |
| 0:51.7 | in a smile. On a hot summer day, August 15, 1975, the Philadelphia suburb of Marple Township, |
| 1:03.0 | eight-year-old Gretchen Harrington, a girl known for infectious kindness and general soul |
| 1:08.6 | was attending her summer Bible camp at the Trinity Christian Reform Church. |
| 1:15.0 | 35-year-old David Zanstra served as the pastor there, |
| 1:20.2 | and the plan that day was simple. The young girl would spend the morning at the Bible camp, |
| 1:25.7 | and then get transported along with the other kids by Zanstra himself to a second church |
| 1:31.3 | the rest of the day. However, Gretchen never made it to the reformed Presbyterian church, |
| 1:38.9 | nor would be Zanstra, who reported to the police that the girl was missing. |
| 1:44.0 | He had claimed she never showed up to the first church, man, that he was concerned about her. |
| 1:50.4 | Zanstra was a friend of the Harrington family. A large search effort was made for the girl with |
| 1:56.5 | the pastor helping out wherever he could. Weeks passed, and then two months after she went missing, |
| 2:03.2 | and the early fall, her skeletal remains were found in Ridley Creek State Park nearby. |
| 2:09.4 | The medical examiner said it was a case on homicide, the young girl that received two or more |
| 2:16.0 | blunt impacts to the skull. It was pastor Zanstra, who presided over her funeral. That was nice, |
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