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Her vicious torture and murder remain unsolved.
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/articles/16784/news
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/articles/16784/news
read more at: http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/news-and-opinion/cover-story/38464204.htmlDeath in the House of Broken Hearts
A small Pennsylvania town revisits the grisly four-decade-old torture and slaying case of a teenage girl.
...But the person on the floor turned out to be Reber's 14-year-old daughter Peggy. The girl had been beaten and viciously bitten on her upper body. She'd been strangled with either an electrical cord or a scarf (depending on whom you asked afterward), sodomized with a mop handle or a jar (again, depending), and sexually assaulted with an archer's bow, the pointy tip of which came to protrude from her upper chest. ...
Cliff Roland ... chief of detectives with the Lebanon Police Department in 1968, investigated...Peggy Reber's murder....
Now 89, Roland...remains particularly sickened and angered by what was done to Peggy Reber.
"I had never, ever seen anything like it in my life," says Roland, a World War II vet who was at Good Samaritan Hospital 40 years ago when Peggy's mutilated body was autopsied.
"It was so horrendous ... I can't tell you about it," he says, his voice shaking....
Within two days of finding Peggy Reber's body, Roland had eight suspects. Within a week, nearly double that number. ...
Few Lebanon residents usually cared what happened in the cheap apartment at 770 Maple St., where rumors of a rapid rotation of visiting men was best left ignored.
But after Mary Reber returned to the apartment in the early morning of May 26, 1968 and found her 14-year-old daughter, Margaret Lynn “Peggy” Reber, brutally assaulted and murdered, people in Lebanon would spend the rest of their lives wondering what happened that night.