Retired Georgia minister is found not guilty in the 1975 killing of a girl in Pennsylvania A jury acquitted David Zandstra, 84, of the Atlanta suburb of Marietta, after deliberating for an hour ...

MEDIA, Pa. (AP) — A retired minister from Georgia was found not guilty Friday in the killing of an 8-year-old girl whose remains were found in a southeastern Pennsylvania park almost a half ...

David Zandstra is escorted out by Pennsylvania State Police, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023, at the Delaware County Court House in Media. Pa. Credit: AP/Jose F. Moreno ...

David Zandstra on Sept. 28, 2023 in Media. Pa., found not guilty Jan. 17 in killing of girl whose remains were found in a Pa. park. decades ago.

Eighty-four-year-old David Zandstra — a former pastor in the area in the 1970s — was charged by Pennsylvania State Police in July 2023 with the 8-year-old girl’s murder based on newly ...

The defense argued that David Zandstra, 84, had been coerced by investigators into confessing to the killing of Gretchen Harrington. By Neil Vigdor Communications gaps, unguarded warehouses and a ...

Retired Georgia minister is found not guilty in the 1975 killing of a girl in Pennsylvania A jury acquitted David Zandstra, 84, of the Atlanta suburb of Marietta, after deliberating for an hour ...

David Zandstra, escorted out by Pennsylvania State Police, on Sept. 28, 2023, at the Delaware County Court House in Media. Pa., was found not guilty Friday, Jan 17, 2025, in the killing of an 8 ...

Eighty-four-year-old David Zandstra — a former pastor in the area in the 1970s — was charged by Pennsylvania State Police in July 2023 with the 8-year-old girl’s murder based on newly ...

Zandstra was charged in the summer of 2023 with kidnapping and killing Gretchen Harrington, who disappeared in 1975 while walking alone to a Bible camp at a chapel where Zandstra was a pastor.