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.
