Each of the five Harrisburg women murdered by serial killer Joey Miller had families who loved them and futures that would never be realized. These are their stories.
Friends and family gathered Oct. 8, 1992, for a memorial service for Selena Franklin at Mount Calvary Church of God in Christ. Franklin, 18, disappeared in May 1987. Her remains were found in a Swatara Township landfill, and serial killer Joseph Miller was convicted of her murder. (Allied Pix archive at the Historical Society of Dauphin County.Five Harrisburg women disappeared one by one between 1986 and 1992 as serial killer Joey Miller stalked city bars for his victims.
At the service, Franklin was remembered as a warm, loving, outspoken and outgoing young woman. “Selina was a beautiful young lady. This is a portrait fit for a queen,” the pastor said, gesturing toward the altar where a white-framed picture of Franklin was displayed. Along with McDuffey’s remains were the bones of her unborn child. Her homicide, along with the death of her fetus, would help make new law in Pennsylvania. The criminal homicide of an unborn child became a separate count of first-degree murder when it happens by an intentional killing.Thomas disappeared in January 1990 after leaving an Allison Hill bar with a man fitting Miller’s description.
“She was a sister. She was an aunt. She was our all,” Sandra Ware, Thomas’ cousin, said as she wiped away tears in the courtroom. LaFrance Thomas, Jeanette Thomas’ sister, said seeing Miller admit to the murder helps only “a little bit.”Schenck, also known as Phoenix Bell, was part Sioux and part French Canadian and began life on a Sioux reservation in Manitoba, Canada, one of 16 siblings.
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