BUCKS COUNTY, Pa. (WPVI) -- Officials in Bucks County said Wednesday they have solved the decades-old cold case murder of a young girl.

The news comes 63 years and one day after 9-year-old Carol Ann Dougherty was found murdered at St. Mark's Roman Catholic Church in Bristol in October 1962.

The Bucks County District Attorney's Office said Dougherty was raped and asphyxiated.

Officials revealed that their investigation has led them to their suspect, William Schrader, who has since died at the age of 63 in 2002.

Schrader, who was originally from Luzerne County, was a transplant to Bucks County at the time of the crime.

Through their investigation, officials said they were able to track Dougherty's travels throughout the community the day before she was murdered.

Officials say Doughe

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