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===Murder of Police Chief Adams=== On the afternoon of December 4, 1980, career criminal [[Donald Eugene Webb]] was the chief suspect in the murder of the borough police chief Gregory Adams at the [[Agway]] in Saxonburg. This was the second homicide in the borough's nearly 150-year history and received national attention, especially as Webb was never apprehended.<ref>{{cite web |first=Jerry |last=Roberts |url=http://articles.cnn.com/1999-09-25/us/9909_25_most.wanted.record_1_jewel-thief-state-police-plates?_s=PM:US |title=Fugitive stays on most wanted list a record 18 years |publisher=CNN |date=September 25, 1999 |access-date=September 11, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324044402/http://articles.cnn.com/1999-09-25/us/9909_25_most.wanted.record_1_jewel-thief-state-police-plates?_s=PM%3AUS |archive-date=March 24, 2012 }}</ref> Webb was put on the [[FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives|FBI Most Wanted List]], but was never captured. After the FBI found new evidence in her house in 2016, in July 2017, his wife Lillian Webb confessed to hiding her husband for 17 years, and led the FBI and police to his remains buried in the yard of her Massachusetts house. He died in 1999 after a series of strokes, at the approximate age of 68.<ref>[http://www.fox25boston.com/news/fbi-most-wanted-donald-webb-documents-reveal-how-the-gangster-avoided-capture/563154927 "How a suspected police chief murderer avoided capture for 37 years"], ''Boston 25 News,'' July 18, 2017.</ref> The first murder occurred in 1849. Christina Foertsch, sister of Albert and Wilbert Foertsch, killed Adele, Wilbert's three-year-old daughter, before killing herself.<ref>{{Cite news |date=February 16, 1949 |title=Spinster Slays Niece, Kills Self With Knife; Three-Year-Old's Neck Ripped Open; Aunt Dies Leaving Bitter But Incoherent Note |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |pages=5}}</ref>
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