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Roxborough: Donna Persico Preserves Local History in Review Archives

November 2, 2016 Veronica L Dekett 2

In 2012, Donna Persico was writing a book about a 1959 Roxborough murder that involved the last case of execution by electric chair in the state of Pennsylvania. For some of her research, she used [continue reading…]