A serial rapist was identified this week as the monster who raped and killed a 9-year-old girl in the choir loft of a Catholic church in Pennsylvania, closing a cold case that vexed authorities and tormented the victim’s family since 1962.

William Schrader, who was 20 when he killed ittle Carol Ann Dougherty, lived not far from the church and had been dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Army. While he was long considered the primary suspect in Carol Ann’s death, authorities never had enough evidence to put him away for it.

Dougherty was riding her bike on Oct. 22, 1962, on her way to the library to return a pair of books, but she stopped off at St. Mark’s Catholic Church in Bristol to pray. The fifth grader was found by her father, beaten to death.

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