{"id":291979,"date":"2026-09-23T02:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/291979\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T02:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:48:13","slug":"clay-county-man-arrested-in-2002-cold-case-murder-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/291979\/","title":{"rendered":"Clay County man arrested in 2002 cold case murder in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BRAZIL, Ind. (WTHI) &#8211; A Brazil, Indiana man has been arrested in a cold case murder in Erie County, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Prosecutors have charged 50-year-old David Heck with first-degree murder, kidnapping and rape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The case dates back to June 24, 2002.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Heck\u2019s arrest was announced by Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday and Erie County District Attorney Elizabeth Hirz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They say Heck took 20-year-old Sabrina Kahler swimming.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Sabrina Kahler\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ABSK77I4HRH3XBSQHM5NHTF23Q.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"803\" \/>Sabrina Kahler(PA Attorney General&#8217;s Office)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They believe he took her to a wooded area near Lake Erie, where he raped and killed her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sabrina\u2019s body has never been recovered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police arrested Heck late Monday night at his home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">An accomplice told a grand jury he helped Heck dispose of the victim\u2019s body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Heck also allegedly confessed to a cellmate of the crime.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WTHI. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRAZIL, Ind. (WTHI) &#8211; A Brazil, Indiana man has been arrested in a cold case murder in Erie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-291979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291979","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=291979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}