Last update: October 31, 2025, 12:54p.m. The summer of 1969 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was a time when kids still roamed free, neighborhoods felt safe, and a 14-year-old girl like Joan Dymond could go to the park after supper without a second thought. But for George and Anne Rose Dymond, that summer was the start of…
Lots of things don’t add up in the John Leonard murder case. Here’s one of them: How is it possible that nobody heard the five gunshots that killed John Leonard?
Imagine if you were a child when your father is shot to death in broad daylight. The killer takes off before anyone finds the scene. The crime seems completely random, making it just about impossible to solve. Even though it’s huge news in your tiny town, the case grows cold fast. Then settles into a decades-long deep freeze. No leads. No justice.
The Leonard family launched a GoFundMe campaign with a painful but necessary goal: exhuming their parents’ remains to finally get answers through modern forensic testing. They hope it will finally yield the answers denied to them by decades of stalled investigations, lost records, and what they allege is a systemic cover-up.
Lori Leonard, daughter of John and Madeleine Leonard — whose 1970s murders in the Poconos remain unsolved — has been seriously ill in recent months, but she is undergoing treatment and hopes for a full recovery. Even in the face of personal hardship, Lori and her husband Randy Zona continue to advocate not just for their own family, but for other victims’ families as well.
Update: June 02, 2025: As of today, Terence Leroy Ray has a preliminary hearing scheduled for Monday, June 6, 2025, at the Luzerne County Courthouse. At a preliminary hearing, the judge decides if there’s enough evidence for a case to go to trial. It is not about determining guilt or innocence.
A recent news report from PAHomepage states that Debra Fox was murdered.
It says, “The longtime owner of the home, 69-year-old Debra Fox, was also murdered.” and “If you have any information about the murder of Debra Fox, contact Wilkes-Barre Police.”
After a long pause, I’ve decided to get going with this website again. I had a lot happen in my personal life over the past several months, PLUS I was feeling discouraged when all of my original articles were taken from this site and plagiarized word for word, without even giving this website the courtesy…
Her remains were found in Black Creek Township, about 30 miles southwest of Wilkes-Barre, in 1973. Local lore has it her spirit haunts the stretch of highway where she was found. It’s August 9, 1973, and a tourist decides to pull off Interstate 80 near Sugarloaf in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, for a walk in the…
The family of homicide victim Nicole Cuevas held a service today at St. Mary’s Cathedral Church in Saginaw, Michigan, according to a Facebook post by Nicole’s brother Paris Scroggins. Nicole’s obituary reads, “Nicole loved to read. Nicole truly loved being with her children and her family and friends. She loved visiting, chatting, and helping family…
