{"id":252987,"date":"2026-07-27T15:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252987\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:46:07","slug":"pennsylvania-state-police-file-criminal-homicide-charges-in-2024-pike-county-death-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252987\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania State Police file criminal homicide charges in 2024 Pike County death investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BLOOMING GROVE, PA \u2014 The Pennsylvania State Police have filed criminal charges against Anthony Kistle in connection with the May 22, 2024, death of his wife, Karen Kistle, at their residence on Vandian Court in Dingman Township, Pike County.<\/p>\n<p>Following an extensive investigation, Kistle has been charged with:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Criminal Homicide<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Theft by Unlawful Taking (Firearm)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Theft by Unlawful Taking (Motor Vehicle)<\/p>\n<p>Evidence gathered at the scene, witness interviews, forensic examination, and subsequent investigative findings concluded that Karen Kistle&#8217;s death was the result of a homicide rather than a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Anthony Kistle is currently in custody in Colorado. He will be returned to Pennsylvania pending an extradition hearing to answer the charges filed in Pike County. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BLOOMING GROVE, PA \u2014 The Pennsylvania State Police have filed criminal charges against Anthony Kistle in connection with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[105049,28,30,29,1224],"class_list":["post-252987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-anthony-kistle","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-state-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252987","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=252987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}