Cold case suspect matched to BB gun DNA after 35 years in 1989 North Whitehall murder case

N. WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. – A cold case is heating up in light of new technology, 35-plus years after the crime.

67-year-old Michael Breisch is charged in 78-year-old Rose Hnath’s murder.

On January 21, 1989, Hnath was found dead with multiple stab wounds and blunt force trauma just less than a month after her North Whitehall home had already been burglarized. This time, her home was ransacked…

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