Pregnant Amish Mother Shot, Slashed, & Scalped In Grisly Rural Pennsylvania Murder
04.03.2024 - 23:45
/ perezhilton.com
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A young Amish woman was murdered in a grisly fashion late last month, and police just caught the man who they believe to be responsible for her death.
Back on February 26, just a little after 12 p.m. local time, Rebekah A. Byler was found slain in her home in Sparta Township in the far northwestern part of the state. Byler, who is Amish and had lived in a heavily Amish area, was just 23 years old. She was the mother of two young children, and she had been six months pregnant with her third at the time of her death.
Horrifically, her husband Andy was the one who found her. Per local news reports, the husband and another person returned to the home just past noon on that day when they found her dead in a pool of blood in the family’s living room. And now, authorities have revealed that they arrested the man believed to be responsible for her death.
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On Saturday, the Crawford County Sheriff’s Department arrested 52-year-old Shawn Cranston (mugshot pictured above) and charged him with the murder. Cranston hails from the small town of Corry, just a few miles north of the site of the murder on Fish Flats Road outside Spartansburg. Per local news website Go Erie, Cranston has been charged with criminal homicide, homicide of an unborn child for the death of the fetus Byler was carrying, burglary, and criminal trespass. He is being held in the Crawford County Correctional Facility without bond.
Byler’s death was apparently extremely horrific. Per an affidavit supplied to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and reported on by multiple news agencies, she was found with an “evident laceration” to the front
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