Suzanna Olszef, also reported as Susanna Sue Evans Deal Olszef, was found murdered in her Bridesburg home on Christmas Day 1986. The 64-year-old retired nurse, who had mobility issues, had been sexually assaulted and brutally stabbed. Her death matched the pattern later attributed to an unidentified serial offender labeled the Frankford Slasher.
Suzanna was the third in what investigators linked as a series of nine victims between 1985 and 1990. Several victims, including her, were known to patronize local spots such as the Golden Bar, which became an investigative lead. Witnesses in multiple cases described a middle-aged white man, possibly in his forties, who wore glasses.
An arrest and conviction in 1990 tied Leonard Christopher to a different victim, Carol Dowd, but questions about his fit with witness descriptions and the occurrence of a slasher-style killing while he was jailed left doubts. A local man known as The Minister, who reportedly resembled the white male description, died without ever being charged. Many of the Frankford Slasher cases, including Suzanna’s, remain unsolved.
Did anyone who knew Suzanna or who frequented the Golden Bar in the mid-1980s see someone matching the described suspect?