Jul 24, 2023 · The suspect, David Zandstra, was arrested on July 17 in Cobb County, Georgia, where investigators say he confessed to killing 8-year-old Gretchen Harrington nearly five decades ago when he was a...

Jan 21, 2025 · David Zandstra, a retired minister in the Christian Reformed Church who was ordained in 1965, was acquitted in a jury trial of all charges he faced stemming from his arrest in July 2023.Prosecutors alleged he confessed in a 2023 interview to murdering Gretchen Harrington, an 8-year-old girl who went missing from Broomall, Penn., in 1975 and whose …

Jan 17, 2025 · After deliberating for three hours on Friday, a Delaware County jury has found an elderly pastor accused in the 1975 cold case murder of 8-year-old Gretchen Harrington of Broomall...

Jul 25, 2023 · David Zandstra, 83, has been charged with criminal homicide, first-degree murder and other crimes. Investigators say he admitted to killing Gretchen Harrington in 1975.

Jan 20, 2025 · Former pastor, David Zandstra, 83, (L) admitted to the murder of Gretchen Harrington (R) in 1975. | Delaware County District Attorney’s Office. A jury has found an 84-year-old retired pastor not guilty of murdering an 8-year-old girl who was walking from home to her church's Bible school. The verdict in the decades-old case has cleared him of ...

Jul 25, 2023 · David Zandstra, 83, is now charged with murder and kidnapping of a minor. "He is every parent's worst nightmare," Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer told...

Jan 17, 2025 · The defense argued that David Zandstra, 84, had been coerced by investigators into confessing to the killing of Gretchen Harrington. By Neil Vigdor A former minister was acquitted on Friday of ...

Jul 25, 2023 · Former pastor David Zandstra (L), 83, of Marietta, Georgia, has been arrested for his alleged role in the 8-year-old Gretchen Harrington's (R) 1975 disappearance and murder.

Jul 25, 2023 · David Zandstra has been charged with criminal homicide, first, second and third degree murder, kidnapping of a minor and the possession of an instrument of crime.

Jul 24, 2023 · Zandstra, who was a minister at the church in the 1970s, was charged with criminal homicide, kidnapping of a minor, possessing an instrument of crime and murder of the first, second and third...