Every day, I make notes, send myself emails and copy links of stories I find interesting – it is impossible to get to them all.

Here are several I’ve put away over the last few weeks. They range from a case before I was born to one that chilled me to the bone when I was a teenager.

If the kid squawked, sex monster William Schrader knew he was sunk. So, after raping nine-year-old Carol Ann Dougherty inside St. Mark’s Church in suburban Philadelphia on Oct. 22, 1962, he strangled the girl to death.

The horrific child murder slipped into the mists of time and into an evidence box in the cold case room of a building in Bucks County, PA. Schrader was in the frame from the beginning.

Dialling the story back to the autumn of 1962, the little girl was last seen riding her bicycle to the libr

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