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THE MORGAN PETERS MURDER: 9 STORIES IN A BIKER MAGAZINE AND A 47-YEAR COLD CASE

 In 1972, 29-year-old wrestler and gym equipment installer Morgan Peters Jr. vanished along the Pennsylvania Turnpike in rural Franklin County, Pennsylvania. What began as the cold case murder of a husband and father from Bay Shore, New York, eventually unraveled into something far darker: a roadside robbery crew, a second young victim named Jane Maguire, a surviving witness named Harvey Hoffman, and a killer who may have been confessing in biker magazines for years.

In this episode of Crimery, Tim Novotney digs into the Morgan Peters murder, the twisted highway ruse used by Larry “Jody” Via and Charmaine Phillips, and the shocking way investigators finally connected the case nearly five decades later. But this story goes beyond one murder. If three published biker magazine stories match real crimes, what about the other six?

This is a haunting true crime story about the Pennsylvania Turnpike, unsolved murder, cold case investigation, hidden confessions, and the chilling possibility that Morgan Peters was not the only victim.

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