A young Woman found murdered near Light Rail Tracks in Dormont in 1989 still unsolved

I was working recently in Dormont  at a church renovation  installing a Fire Alarm when I was reminded by the death of a young woman whose remains where found couple blocks away in a back yard on Voelkel  ave which the light rail system runs by .
It was a warm summer night that July 22 when Catherine Corkery attended a party along Academy Ave a road with many apartment buildings along it  in Mt Lebanon to leave the party around 2:00 Am and at some point was attacked and murdered and dumped in the back yard.
It was a shock to Dormont community . A community which is  still nicely maintained and friendly
having survived the decline of steel mills while many other nearby city neighborhoods next door like Beachview have greatly declined . As protective and guarding the people of Dormont are of their community no one heard anything go on that night which is hard to believe some one did not hear something or see something as dense packed as the area is even if it was in the dead of night .

In the 20 + years since this murder no one has come forward or suspect identified. but some have suggested a killer with similar  tactics  Glen Roger  but there is no evidence to link him.


Most likely she was attacked by a transient who frequent the Light Rail line known as the T
Because Mt. Lebanon and Dormont are not community's you would regularly travel thru unless you live there since they put I-79 thru and US 19 no longer has the predominance it once did as a travel route unless your going to go shopping or visiting in area .

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