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Case Description

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In the winter of 1986, a 26-year-old Black woman named Kelly Ann Ward vanished from her life in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. For years, her disappearance remained a painful mystery for her family, a void filled with unanswered questions and the gnawing ache of the unknown. It would take more than a decade for the first piece of the grim puzzle to surface.

In February 1997, a work crew stumbled upon partial skeletal remains in a landfill area in Swatara Township. The discovery was treated as ...Read More

Victim Details

Kelly Ward

Female

Black / African American

Penn Township

PA

1986-02

26

Kelly

Ward

05/17/2026