PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n
After nearly five decades, Pennsylvania State Police say they’ve identified the man responsible for the murders of two young women. <\/p>\n
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Investigators say DNA evidence has linked two cold cases in the Pittsburgh area. <\/p>\n
21-year-old Susan Rush disappeared in 1976 on her way to a Thanksgiving Eve dinner. She was later found dead in the trunk of her car. <\/p>\n
In 1977, 18-year-old Brenda Ritter disappeared after leaving her boyfriend’s house. Her body was found on a hillside in South Strabane. <\/p>\n
Police say both women had been sexually assaulted and strangled. <\/p>\n
Investigators have now identified James Richard Clark Senior as the killer. He died of natural causes in 2023. <\/p>\n
State police say Clark had never previously been a suspect in either case. Investigators are now looking into whether he may have been responsible for other murders. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 After nearly five decades, Pennsylvania State Police say they’ve identified the man responsible for the murders…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[130823,130824,130830,130815,13361,130827,32460,26604,17084,455,130821,783,130822,130829,85232,28,30,29,1224,73,206,337,68721,41113,130814,130825,10555,130828,130826,437,1133,2812,92283,102356],"class_list":["post-322721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-1976-disappearance","tag-1977-disappearance","tag-21-year-old-susan-rush","tag-brenda-ritter","tag-cold-case","tag-cold-case-breakthrough","tag-cold-cases","tag-decade","tag-dna-evidence","tag-investigator","tag-james-richard-clark","tag-murder","tag-murder-identification","tag-murderer","tag-natural-causes","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-pittsburgh","tag-police","tag-sexual-assault","tag-south-strabane","tag-strangling","tag-susan-rush","tag-thanksgiving-eve","tag-top-story","tag-trunk-of-car","tag-unsolved-murders","tag-washington-county","tag-weather","tag-wgal","tag-young-woman","tag-young-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322721","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=322721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}