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 Delaware County park almost a half-century ago.

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Retired minister found not guilty in the 1975 killing of girl in Pennsylvania

A retired minister from Georgia has been found not guilty in the 1975 killing of an 8-year-old girl

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Retired Georgia minister is found not guilty in the 1975 killing of a girl in Pennsylvania

A retired minister from Georgia has been found not guilty in the 1975 killing of an 8-year-old girl. A jury acquitted 84-year-old David Zandstra after deliberating for an hour on

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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-century ago.

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A jury acquitted 84-year-old David Zandstra after deliberating for an hour on Friday. Zandstra was charged in the summer of 2023 with kidnapping and killing Gretchen Harrington.

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Retired Georgia minister found not guilty in 1975 killing of Delaware County girl

Gretchen Harrington disappeared while walking to a Bible camp. The 8-year-old girl's body was later found by a jogger at a state park in southeastern Pennsylvania.

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A former pastor was found not guilty of murder in connection to the 1975 murder of a girl whose remains were found in a Philadelphia suburb

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Ex-pastor found not guilty in 1975 murder of young Delco girl

David Zandstra, 84, Ga., was found not guilty Friday, Jan. 17, 2025 in the abduction and murder of 8-year-old Gretchen Harrington. He was charged in 2023 after giving a confession to state police, but his attorney argued the confession had ben coerced and was not freely given.

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Retired minister acquitted in Delaware County child’s murder in 1975

A former minister was acquitted on Friday of murder in the 1975 killing of Gretchen Harrington, who was 8 years old when she was abducted on her way to a Bible camp outside Philadelphia and beaten to death. It took jurors about an hour to reach a verdict in the case of the former minister, David Zandstra, 84, whose lawyers had vigorously argued during the four-day trial that their client had been coerced into confessing to a crime that had confo…

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Former Minister Is Acquitted in 1975 Murder of 8-Year-Old Near Philadelphia

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-century ago.

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Up until 2023, David Zandstra has been living in Marietta with his family for nearly 20 years.

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Retired Georgia minister is found not guilty in the 1975 killing of a girl in Pennsylvania

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