Category Archives: Hex murder

Utz Arena at the York Expo Center: We’ll get used to it – Linked in with neat history stuff, May 16, 2012

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Jim McClure

Toyota Arena at York (Pa.) Expo Center is becoming the Utz brand one letter at a time as suggested in this photograph, one of a series captured by York Daily Record/Sunday News photographer Paul Kuehnel. Hanover-based snack food maker Utz secured naming rights to this multi-use building at the old York Fairgrounds.

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Rita Mae Brown in York for Camp Security fundraiser: ‘We lose our history so fast in this country’: Linked in to history, 4/18/13

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Jim McClure

Yorktownsquare.com covers Rita Mae Brown’s appearance in York on behalf of Camp Security, interest in the Hex Murder and the story of a Civil War drummer boy.

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Hex Murder witchcraft trials … ‘and they happened in York County’: Linked in to York County, Pa., history, 3/27/13

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Jim McClure

It will be an interesting night in Glen Rock, Pa., when J. Ross McGinnis takes the podium in April to talk about the Hex Murder of 1928. McGinnis is an attorney with a gift for spinning a tale – only a true, terrible tale in this case. He will tell how three young assailants attacked suspected witch Nelson Rehmeyer to break a spell in a remote hollow not far from Glen Rock, Pennsylvania.

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Hex Murder assailant: ‘A genuinely nice guy and was a good employee’

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Jim McClure

People alive today knew one of the celebrated Hex Murder defendants of 1928, proving that York is the world’s largest small town

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York County congregation straddled Mason-Dixon Line: Linked in to history, Nov. 23, 2012

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Jim McClure

Yorktownsquare.com covers Bethlehem Steltz Church’s bid for national registry, the Hex Murder and the 4 millionth Harley-Davidson sold.

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York County Hex Murder: 10 memorable quotes about this famed witchcraft case

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Jim McClure

‘Trials of Hex’ author J. Ross McGinnis is knowledgable and erudite about York County’s famous witchcraft trial.

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York County’s Hex murder: 5 more quick facts about the forever fascinating witchcraft case

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Jim McClure

Some quick facts and impressions about York County’s Hex murder case in which three accomplices killed a suspected witch.

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York County’s Hex murder: 5 quick facts about the forever fascinating witchcraft case

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Jim McClure

The book ‘Long Lost Friend’ inspired superstitions among the Pennsylvania Dutch until well into the 20th century.

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York County’s Hex murders story: ‘Echoes and Re-echoes with intensity and interest’

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Jim McClure

Hex murder expert J. Ross McGinnis will present a program about the landmark trial that followed the arrests of the three assailants of a suspected witch.

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1 York/Adams history mystery solved; 1 to go: Linked in to York County history, Oct. 1, 2012

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Jim McClure

Yorktownsquare.com covers a mystery school, the best Hex murder trial books and a new book that covers factory tourism.

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