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ERIE, Pa. \u2013 State law enforcement credit new witness statements that led to an arrest in a 24-year-old cold-case homicide in Erie County.<\/p>\n

David S. Heck, 50, of Brazil, Indiana, who formerly lived in Erie, is charged<\/a> with the kidnapping, rape and murder of Sabrina Kahler, who was 20 years old when she went missing June 24, 2002.<\/p>\n

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Eric Scicchitano\u00a0is the CNHI Pennsylvania statehouse reporter. Follow him on Twitter @ericshick11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ERIE, Pa. \u2013 State law enforcement credit new witness statements that led to an arrest in a 24-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1646,31,710,2892,2894,136,138,137,3626,1856,2897,783,28,335,3636],"class_list":["post-291911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-arrest","tag-crime","tag-crimes","tag-criminal-justice","tag-criminal-law","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-kidnapping","tag-law-enforcement","tag-misconduct","tag-murder","tag-pennsylvania","tag-rape","tag-violent-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291911","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=291911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}