The 9-year-old girl Renee Waddle was found dead and burning along a secluded private road in Roaring Brook Township on June 6, 1989. Cause of death was a traumatic head injury from a blunt-force blow. The discovery shocked Scranton and prompted a major homicide investigation.

Investigators identified local business owner Frank Osellanie as a suspect after evidence, including one of Renee’s earrings, was found in his garage. He was arrested and later charged with abduction, rape, and murder. At trial the prosecution secured convictions including second- and third-degree murder, voluntary and involuntary manslaughter, rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, and kidnapping. He received a mandatory life sentence plus an additional 20 to 40 years.

Osellanie was also regarded as a prime suspect in the cases of Laureen Finn and the disappearances of Joanne Williams and Michele Jolene Lakey, though no charges were filed in those matters. Did anyone in the Scranton area know Renee’s routines or remember seeing her on or around June 6, 1989?