Dolores Della Penna was 17 when she was abducted and murdered in Philadelphia on July 11, 1972. A recent high school graduate planning to study to become an x-ray technician, she was last seen after taking a trolley home in the Tacony neighborhood; witnesses reported a young man attacked her and dragged her into a maroon Chevrolet as she walked toward her house. Her disappearance prompted an intense search by Philadelphia police over the following eleven days.

Dolores’ dismembered body was recovered in the New Jersey Pine Barrens: her torso and arms were found on July 22, 1972, and her legs were located about a week later; her head has never been recovered. An autopsy showed she had been beaten and dismembered in a methodical fashion, with fingertips removed, suggesting the perpetrator may have had anatomical knowledge and removed identifiers. Hundreds of people were questioned and later tips pointed toward possible involvement by members of a local drug gang, including a jailhouse claim that she had been accused of stealing drugs and killed in revenge, but no one was ever charged.

Does anyone have information about Dolores, the maroon Chevrolet, or people in Tacony or the Shore area at that time who haven’t previously been contacted?