In January 1978, Mrs. Mildred Wilson, an elderly widow, was found dead in her home in Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The cause of death was strangulation and she was badly beaten. Investigators ruled the death a homicide. This murder was one of four that occurred in the Lykens Valley area in a less than three year period – all of elderly widows. No one was ever charged and brought to trial, and to this day the crime remains unsolved.
The story of the discovery of the body through the revelation of the autopsy results is told through brief stories that appeared in a Sunbury newspaper.
From the Sunbury Daily Item, 23 January 1978
Death of woman under investigation
MILLERSBURG – The suspicious death of an elderly Millersburg woman is being investigated today by the criminal detail of state police at Harrisburg and Millersburg borough police.
The body of Mrs. Mildred Wilson, 81, or 874 Union St., was found Friday in her home by a neighbor. An autopsy was performed at Harrisburg Saturday according to Dauphin County Chief Deputy Coroner Hubert Jones. Jones said that on the basis of that report the death is being treated as a homicide.
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For all other parts of this story, see: Who Killed Mildred Wilson?
News clipping/article from Newspapers.com.
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