{"id":292617,"date":"2026-09-23T23:58:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292617\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T23:58:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:58:58","slug":"exclusive-man-charged-24-year-old-cold-case-back-in-erie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292617\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Man Charged 24-Year-Old Cold Case Back in Erie | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Man Charged 24-Year-Old Cold Case Back in Erie\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>A major development in the decades-old disappearance of Sabrina Kahler unfolded Wednesday as the man charged in the case was transported to Erie from Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>According to Pennsylvania State Police and the Erie Cold Case Unit, David Heck was charged Tuesday afternoon before District Judge Susan Stoymeyer in Greene Township after being extradited from Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>Heck faces charges of first-degree murder, second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and kidnapping in connection with the disappearance of 20-year-old Sabrina Kahler.<\/p>\n<p>The charges were filed Monday night in Indiana, where Heck was taken into custody. Authorities announced the charges earlier this week, marking a significant breakthrough in the long-unsolved case.<\/p>\n<p>Kahler was reported missing more than three decades ago, and investigators have continued to pursue leads as part of an extensive cold case investigation. Officials say the case remains active as the judicial process moves forward.<\/p>\n<p>Additional details are expected to be released as court proceedings continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major development in the decades-old disappearance of Sabrina Kahler unfolded Wednesday as the man charged in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[13361,120928,136,138,137,33316,50601],"class_list":["post-292617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-cold-case","tag-david-heck","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-murder-charges","tag-sabrina-kahler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292617","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=292617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}