Maybe it was just such a transient who came thru the small rural town of Rices landing in October of 1973
who strangled and killed little 8 year old Debbie Makel and partially buried her 500 yards from her home in
Rices landing along the Monongahela River where it is extremely rural PA route 88 a 2 lane road travels thru it on its way to Point Marion and the West Virginia line. Not a road a normal person travelling would take to west Virginia as Pa 837 and US 119 to Morgantown are much shorter. It would be used mostly by locals and the occasional back roads traveler sightseer . But then again such a rural quiet area would be the perfect place to commit a crime and get away with it especially if your not from the area. Seems to me they where doing a lot of work on a nearby electric power station could it have been some one working on that project? We will probably never know. This was also right along the Monongahela river with a history of violence and mystery.
I did some sub contract camera work in the area in late 80's and even then it was very rural but that's all changed with The Mon valley expressway PA Toll 43 coming thru the area but Rices landing still sits quietly by itself except for fact some one killed this beautiful 8 year old girl and no one has paid the price for it.
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