Law enforcement officials announced new details Monday in the 1975 cold case murder of Gretchen Harrington of Marple Township, Delaware County.
According to court documents, Zandstra was charged with homicide, murder, kidnapping a minor and related offenses.
Harrington disappeared on Aug. 15, 1975, while on a walk from her Marple Township home to a Bible school less than a mile away.
Officials in Delaware County announced charges have been filed in the murder of Gretchen Harrington.
The victim was 8-years-old when she was abducted and killed on the way to bible school in Marple Township in 1975.
We are additionally grieved to hear that a CRC pastor has been arrested for the murder," read the statement.
A pair of authors with ties to the Philadelphia area, recently published a book on the cold case murder and officials said Monday their research helped crack this case. »