It started with a tip at a 7-Eleven. Nearly 50 years later, that chance stop has become a book—and for Kathryn Canavan, a reckoning with one of the most haunting stories of her journalism career, writes John DiCarlo for Main Line Today.
The former Bucks County Courier Times reporter recently published Killer in the House: Ten Days of Terror in a Pennsylvania Suburb. The book provides a deep dive into two multiple-murder cases that rocked Bucks County in the same ten days in March 1976, just four miles apart.
Canavan was 25 years old and working for the Courier Times when a tip she picked up at a Trevose 7-Eleven led her to a murder scene on Fleetwood Avenue. There she became one of the first reporters on the scene of the brutal killing of the Abt family, a moment that would define her career…