The former Broomall pastor confessed earlier this year to killing Gretchen in 1975. He will be brought to Pennsylvania from Georgia to face murder and kidnapping charges.
A photo of Gretchen Harrington and her alleged killer, David Zandstra, are shown during District Attorney’s Jack Stollsteimer news conference in July announcing Zandstra's arrest. Zandstra will be extradited Thursday afternoon to Delaware County to begin the criminal prosecution into Gretchen's murder.
Zandstra confessed to the crime weeks before his arrest during an interview with Pennsylvania State Police detectives, who had confronted him with new evidence that he had molested another girl not long before Gretchen went missing, according to the affidavit of probable cause filed for his arrest.Lawyers for Zandstra, who retired to Marietta, Ga., in the intervening years, initially fought extradition.
Gretchen vanished on August 15, 1975, leaving her neighbors and police without any leads. Two months later, a hiker discovered skeletal remains in Ridley Creek State Park in Edgmont Township that were later identified as Gretchen’s. Her makeshift grave was 2½ miles from where she was last seen.An autopsy revealed she had been killed by blunt-force trauma to the head, according to police.
Most of the original detectives who handled her disappearance have since retired or died. But the catalyst for Zandstra’s arrest came in 2021, when two Marple Township residents, Mike Mathis and Joanna Sullivan, contacted current Police Chief Brandon Graeff and asked for the original case files for a book they were writing about Gretchen’s disappearance, investigators said.
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