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She was contacted about a secretarial position, was seen getting into a dark car with a heavyset man and her tortured corpse was found days later.


KINGSTON- A muskrat hunter made the gruesome discovery on the afternoon of Dec. 21, 1938.
In the icy waters of Keelersburg Creek in Northmoreland Township, Wyoming County, the 19-year-old sportsman spotted a bulky burlap bag. A hand stuck out of the sack.
Inside was the badly mutilated body of 19-year-old Margaret Martin of Kingston. A clothesline had been used to truss the body. She had been missing since Dec. 17.

Read more: http://archives.timesleader.com/199...HO_KILLED_YOUNG_MARGARET_M.html#ixzz42kjKdrb2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Margaret_Martin
 
The Unsolved Killing of Margaret Martin

Locals exchanged theories as to the identity of the murderer. Their suspects included Wyoming County’s mortician, a teacher at the technical college where Margaret had studied, a local assistant pastor, and a teenager who had had a crush on the young woman. Without evidence, however, such theories remained hearsay.

Pennsylvania authorities never close the cold cases in their archives. Unsolved homicides are reopened and reviewed annually. Nevertheless, Margaret’s is a case that has cooled significantly since the murder first shocked the community nearly 80 years ago. Police are skeptical that her killer will ever be caught, if he is even still alive.
 

Margaret Martin

Date December 17–20, 1938
Location Luzerne County, Pennsylvania/Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, United States
Type Homicide
Death(s) 1 (victim)
Burial St. Ignatius Church in Kingston
Coroner R. W. Greenwood
Convicted No conviction (unsolved case)
Margaret Martin (1918/19 – December 1938) was a resident of Kingston, Pennsylvania, United States, who went missing on December 17, 1938, and was found dead in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, several days later.

Martin was a recent graduate of the Wilkes-Barre Business College. On December 17, 1938, she met an unknown man who claimed to be offering her a secretarial job, and was never seen alive again. Her body was discovered in the wilderness 25 miles away by a hunter four days later.

Martin's death resulted in a lengthy manhunt. Numerous suspects were examined, but no one was ever convicted of the crime. As of 2019, it remains an unsolved case.
 
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On Saturday the 17th of December, 1938, a neighbour who took phone calls for the Martin family informed Martin that a man had called with a job offer for her. The anonymous caller said that he was new in town and was setting up an insurance agency and was looking for a secretary. It was just 17 days after her graduation and she assumed that Wilkes-Barre Business College must have recommended her to this potential employer. A chuffed Martin took the phone call and arranged to meet the anonymous caller at Kingston Corners, just a short distance from her family home on Covert Street.

The last time Martin was seen alive was when a man who lived in an apartment at Kingston Corners spotted her climbing into a brown Plymouth. The man who was driving the car was said to be between 25 and 30-years-old and was slightly overweight.
 
The killer probably knew her or knew that she was looking for a job, since he had her number and called to make their appointment. Perhaps he was linked in some way with the College job placement office.
 
what a really odd story and you think with knowing that some guy called up her home well may be you should look up case's that have that same mo.? just some thing I was a thinking.
 
This December will mark 85 years since Margaret's unsolved murder.
 

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