Murder of Small Town Butler County Police Chief goes on 30 +years unsolved

Saxonburg is a sleepy little town in Butler County off of Route 228  not much goes on there except for the annual Penns Colony Festival and fireman's parade .
That was till one cold December morning in 1980  then Police Chief  Gregory Adams a family man  and greatly loved by the town was found shot and bleeding to death  in the Agway Supply company parking Lot and a notorious criminal  is suspected of  committing the heinous act  but  which has  never been  proved  is still on the run .






 The man suspected of doing the crime a known criminal Donald Eugene Webb   was believed to be in the small town to scope out a jewelry store for a burglary and has never been heard from again other than in a letter sent to local FBI office  supposedly sent by him in which also claims he did not shoot the chief .



If he is still alive he would be a very old man by now.

You might think small town jeweler how much could he have gotten in this case? Well as you can see from the pictures above this small town had money. It also has a small company at the time  which would grow into a leading developer of commercial lasers.
So he might have been after the jewelry store.
But  he could have also been there to scope out wealthy home owners as well for a burglary or even  some of the local business if he suspected they had something of value but that would take extensive knowledge he did not have of the businesses in town all small and no payroll to hit  and besides he was a burglar not a stick up man  and by then business payed by check not by cash kept in a safe over night  and burglarizing a commercial business was not his thing. He was looking for things he could easily fence or sell without question  .   If it even was him and since he is not talking  know one knows for sure but he looks good for the crime as they say.
Why FBI and police have come to this conclusion has never been fully disclosed .
But near this town  a young girl named Cheery Mahan Disappeared. a few years later in 85
never to be heard from again and maybe it was not Webb at all but the person responsible for her disappearance as well a criminal with nothing to loose  unlike Webb who at most would have done a few years and been back on the streets why would Webb shoot the officer very unlike a serial burglar to do something like this. Like I have said in other articles I believe a serial killer or killers has been operating in these parts for many years now and if I am right and this person was stopped and the chief become suspicious of them  you can understand why he was shot. But shot by a   career criminal burglar? I leave that conclusion up to you . 

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