Bucks County District Attorney Jennifer Schorn and Pennsylvania State Police leadership will hold a press conference on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, at 1 p.m. at the Bucks County Justice Center in Doylestown, officials announced on Tuesday, Oct. 28.
The briefing will share formal findings from a Bucks County Investigating Grand Jury that recently reviewed evidence in the 1962 murder — one of the region’s most notorious unsolved crimes.
A Crime That Shocked A Community
On Monday, Oct. 22, 1962, Carol, a fifth-grader at St. Mark Catholic School, was last seen riding her bike from her Landreth Manor home to the Bristol library. When she failed to return home by 4:30 p.m., her parents, Frank and Dorothy Dougherty, began searching.
Moments later, Carol’s father found her lifeless body inside St. Mark’s, on a stairwell leading to the choir loft. Investigators said she had been strangled and sexually assaulted…