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More than six decades after a nine-year-old girl was raped and murdered in the choir loft of a Catholic church in Pennsylvania, investigators say they have finally identified her killer – a serial rapist whose crimes spanned several states.
William Schrader, an Army veteran dishonorably discharged at the time of the murder, was officially named this week as the man who killed Carol Ann Dougherty inside St. Mark’s Church on October 22, 1962.
Schrader passed away in 2002, but “his name is now definitively linked to the crime that took Carol Ann’s young life,” according to Bucks County District Attorney Jennifer Schorn.
Carol Ann’s younger sister Kay
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