Police officials are following new leads in the 50-year-old cold case murder of 17-year-old Patricia Bartlett, a Bucks County teenager who was stabbed in the Oxford Valley Mall parking lot, writes Gina Cosenza for 102.9 MGK.
On Jan. 13, 1975, Patricia Bartlett visited The Camera Shop at the mall to buy photo paper and toner for photographing a snowstorm. As she returned to her car, she was stabbed multiple times by an unknown assailant. She was discovered in the parking lot and transported to Middletown’s St. Mary’s Medical Center, where she later passed away.
Over the following five decades, there have been few leads regarding her murder. Despite conducting dozens of interviews, polygraph tests, and having a police sketch of the potential killer, police never managed to uncover the identity of the perpetrator.
On Monday, Middletown Police Department detectives asked members of the public for any new information on the 50th anniversary of the teen’s death.
“Patty suffered a heinous death at the hands of an unknown violent predator,” said Bucks County District Attorney Jennifer Schorn. “Although the case went unsolved, Middletown Township Police have never forgotten about Patty’s murder.”
Read more about the 50-year-old Bucks County cold case at 102.9 MGK.
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