{"id":217737,"date":"2026-06-12T20:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T20:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/217737\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T20:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T20:16:12","slug":"pennsylvania-state-police-seek-tips-in-1973-lawrence-county-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/217737\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania State Police seek tips in 1973 Lawrence County homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tNew leads have developed in an unsolved Lawrence County homicide from 1973.Frank Dewayne Iwanejko, 22, had been speaking with a woman on June 9, 1973 following a date. The pair were in a car when they were approached by two men who tried to rob them. Iwanejko allegedly refused to give them money. Authorities say a struggle happened between the group, leading to Iwanejko being killed by one of the men. The woman who Iwanejko was on the date with ran into a nearby wooded area where she remained all night. When dawn came, authorities say she contacted State Police. Authorities describe the suspect who killed Iwanejko as a white man who was around 22 at the time of the killing. He had a thin build and long, dark, curly hair. That man was around 5 feet 6 inches tall and 130 pounds with a thin build.The second suspect was described as a white man around 24 years old at the time, 5 feet 11 inches tall and 190 pounds with a heavy build and medium-length brown hair. Authorities now say leads have developed into the case but did not say what those leads were. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Pennsylvania State Police Crime Unit in New Castle at 724-598-2211.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tUNION TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>New leads have developed in an unsolved Lawrence County homicide from 1973.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Dewayne Iwanejko, 22, had been speaking with a woman on June 9, 1973 following a date. The pair were in a car when they were approached by two men who tried to rob them. <\/p>\n<p>Iwanejko allegedly refused to give them money. Authorities say a struggle happened between the group, leading to Iwanejko being killed by one of the men. <\/p>\n<p>The woman who Iwanejko was on the date with ran into a nearby wooded area where she remained all night. <\/p>\n<p>When dawn came, authorities say she contacted State Police. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities describe the suspect who killed Iwanejko as a white man who was around 22 at the time of the killing. He had a thin build and long, dark, curly hair. That man was around 5 feet 6 inches tall and 130 pounds with a thin build.<\/p>\n<p>The second suspect was described as a white man around 24 years old at the time, 5 feet 11 inches tall and 190 pounds with a heavy build and medium-length brown hair. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities now say leads have developed into the case but did not say what those leads were. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Pennsylvania State Police Crime Unit in New Castle at 724-598-2211.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New leads have developed in an unsolved Lawrence County homicide from 1973.Frank Dewayne Iwanejko, 22, had been speaking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[95135,13361,43345,95136,95137,7674,6441,28,30,29,1224,95139,95138,95140,91291,95141,77054],"class_list":["post-217737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-1973-homicide","tag-cold-case","tag-date-night","tag-frank-dewayne-iwanejko","tag-june-9-1973","tag-lawrence-county","tag-new-castle","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-robbery-attempt","tag-state-police-crime-unit","tag-two-suspects","tag-unsolved-homicide","tag-white-man","tag-wooded-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}