The dreaded twin tunnels near Downingtown — the source of numerous local legends — are also linked with one of the most frustrating cold cases in Pennsylvania, writes Matt Gilligan for Mental Floss.
In July 1995, a local fisherman discovered a suitcase with the top-half remains of a murdered woman in Brandywine Creek, in the shadow of the twin tunnels. Investigators were unable to identify her as fingerprints failed to match any found in the nation’s databases.
There were no new discoveries until six months later. A jogger happened upon the woman’s severed legs almost 50 miles away from the site of the suitcase…