The 1929 Bermudian Creek Murder Mystery
Shortly after nine o'clock on the morning of Friday, June 28, 1929, William Kennedy was building a new fence on his farm near York Springs when the circling of vultures led to shocking discovery on the banks of Bermudian Creek, about a hundred yards from the old Gettysburg-Harrisburg highway. It was the badly-decomposed body of a nude female lying face-down in the mud, covered with leaves and debris which had washed downstream from a period of recent heavy rains. Most the hair was missing, along with one of the ears, one arm and one leg, yet the nails of the woman's undisturbed fingers were well manicured. Kennedy notified the authorities and Corporal William Kasparvich and Trooper William B. Favis of the State Police were dispatched to the scene. They determined that the woman was between 25 and 30 years of age, roughly five feet seven inches in height and had weighed about 140 pounds. The skull featured prominent teeth, with one eyetooth from the upper jaw and two molars fr
