have said that it has closed four unsolved murder cases after Edward Surratt confessed to killing the victims in 1977 and 1978.
John Shelkons, 56, was beaten to death in his home in January 1978, along with his wife, who survived the attack. "PSP investigators never stopped seeking justice for the victims of these terrible crimes and their families," Lieutenant Colonel Scott Price, deputy commissioner of operations for the Pennsylvania State Police, said in a statement.
Surratt was only ever convicted of one murder in South Carolina in 1978, as well as violent offenses in Florida including burglary and assault involving rape.
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