{"id":322737,"date":"2026-11-06T23:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T23:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/322737\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T23:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T23:24:08","slug":"pennsylvania-man-charged-in-1985-teen-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/322737\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania man charged in 1985 teen murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/news-team\/003b0fcd-4def-48bb-ad8b-2204a8b1d7fe\" aria-label=\"Lori Burkholder profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1794007448_686_003b0fcd-4def-48bb-ad8b-2204a8b1d7fe_1654041445.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Lori Burkholder\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/news-team\/003b0fcd-4def-48bb-ad8b-2204a8b1d7fe\" aria-label=\"Lori Burkholder profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1794007448_686_003b0fcd-4def-48bb-ad8b-2204a8b1d7fe_1654041445.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Lori Burkholder\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>WESTMORELAND COUNTY, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">The murder of a teenage girl 41 years ago in Westmoreland County has been solved. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">16-year-old Lottie Jo Gunn from Ohio was found dead in North Huntingdon Township in 1985. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Police used DNA technology to identify 61-year-old James Kruczek as a suspect. He was charged with homicide. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">An acquaintance told investigators that Kruczek picked up the victim, stabbed her to death and dumped her body. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WESTMORELAND COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 The murder of a teenage girl 41 years ago in Westmoreland County has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[130842,130834,130841,13361,130839,130838,130843,130835,113654,457,71258,455,130833,130612,130837,40211,41420,293,130836,28,30,130832,1051,29,206,3628,121633,65077,67039,5910,130840,2812,78],"class_list":["post-322737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-16-year-old-lottie-jo-gunn","tag-1985-murder","tag-acquaintance","tag-cold-case","tag-cold-case-homicide","tag-crime-case","tag-dna-link","tag-dna-technology","tag-found-dead","tag-homicide","tag-homicide-charge","tag-investigator","tag-james-kruczek","tag-lottie-jo-gunn","tag-murder-solved","tag-north-huntingdon","tag-north-huntingdon-township","tag-ohio","tag-ohio-teen","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-homicide","tag-pennsylvania-man","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-police","tag-police-investigation","tag-stabbing-death","tag-teen-murder","tag-teenage-girl","tag-westmoreland-county","tag-westmoreland-county-murder","tag-wgal","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322737","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=322737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}