The grocery store owner is shot in the mouth behind the meat counter, but he’s still alive.
In the 1960s, Harrisburg businesses of all types were booming. And not just downtown, but across the entire sweep of the city. This is part two of five in the Shopkeeper Killer series. Thus far, District Attorney Martin Lock witnessed his shoe-store-owning uncle become the killer’s third victim. But when the all-out investigation produces no new leads, it’s time to go back to beginning of the case and review every last detail.
It was unseasonably mild that Monday morning in mid-January as another Harrisburg work week was gearing up.John Luciew is an enterprise and trends reporter with PennLive and The Patriot-News, as well as a published mystery author. He writes on a variety of topics. John is also a two-time winner of the Distinguished Writing Award from the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association, in addition to other statewide journalism honors and national journalism honors from Scripps Howard and Sigma Delta Chi.
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