1975 cold case of murdered child who disappeared while walking to Bible school solved with arrest of minister at the church. The case was solved when another child he molested back then came forward. She always suspected him.
https://6abc.com/gretchen-harrington-1975-murder-cold-case-delaware-county/13541771/
Trinity Church Chapel CRC in Broomall, PA where the murder occurred, 1969-1976
Bethel CRC, Dallas, TX 1976-1983 (He lived in Plano TX then) (Church disbanded 2004)
Living Faith Community CRC, San Diego CA, 1983-1990
(Disbanded, records held at Crossroads CRC, San Marcos CA)
Fairfield CRC, Fairfield, CA 1990-2005
"... investigators spoke with an unidentified witness who had been friends with Zandstra’s daughter the year Gretchen disappeared ...The witness said that during a sleepover at Zandstra’s home when she was a girl, about a week before Gretchen went missing, Zandstra molested her, the complaint said.
"The witness ultimately told Zandstra’s daughter what happened, and the girl told her that Zandstra “does that sometimes,” according to the complaint. The witness also told police that one of her classmates had almost been kidnapped twice, and wrote in her diary in 1975 that she believed Zandstra murdered Gretchen."
Police are asking for anyone with information about other victims to consider coming forward, and they will compare his DNA to other cases.
His locations:
Flanders Valley CRC (Christian Reformed Church), Flanders, NJ, 1965-1969 (Church merged to Crossroads Community CRC in Flanders, NJ in 1990)
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