The Mysterious Death of Deborah Waggoner: South Greensburg’s 1990 Unsolved Homicide

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🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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On the night of April 17th in 1990, Deborah Waggoner had what seemed like an ordinary plan. Around 7 PM, she left her South Greensburg home in her faded green 1976 Chevrolet Malibu. She told her boyfriend, Charles Stader, that she was headed to the nearby coin-operated Carbon Car Wash to clean her car. It was close by, so Charles didn’t expect her to be gone for more than an hour. Before she left, he’d asked her to grab a pack of cigarettes on her way home, and she agreed. That was the last time anyone saw Deborah alive.

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0:00.0	Some cases shake a small town in ways that time doesn't seem to fix.
0:05.6	The kind of cases that don't just leave behind a crime scene, but doubt, fear, and questions
0:11.8	that no one seems to have the answers to.
0:14.8	It's the kind story where the truth seems to be just below the surface, but it slips away whenever someone gets close to it.
0:23.1	This is a case full of close calls, anonymous voices, and physical evidence that was there, but ahead of its time.
0:30.7	And the worst part of all is the 35 years of silence that would follow the brutal end to a woman's life and remain unsolved.
0:40.1	This is the story of Deborah Wagner.
0:42.9	I'm Ashley.
0:43.9	And I'm Ricky.
0:44.9	And this is Crime Salad.
0:51.7	Greensburg, Pennsylvania.
0:52.9	It sits in Westmoreland County, about 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
0:58.3	It's a courthouse town with a main street feel, the kind of place where weeknights are quiet,
1:04.1	and you recognize the same faces at the same diners. Today it has a population of about 15,000 people.
1:13.6	Back in 1990, when Deber's case began,
1:20.0	the city was only a little bigger at roughly 16,000 people. It's a place where a quiet evening is normal, and anything that breaks the pattern lingers. Now, some of those listening might
1:27.2	recognize Greensburg from the Greensburg
1:29.3	6. This case was about the 2010 murder of Jennifer Docherty that drew national attention, a 30-year-old
1:37.4	woman with intellectual disabilities who was torturously murdered by not one assailant, but six. It's a case that still defines the city
1:47.3	in a lot of people's minds. That case is crazy. The details are so upsetting, and you're right,
1:54.1	that story definitely defines Greensburg. And I think most people only know that town because
2:00.2	of the Greensburg 6.
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