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Barbara Jean Lewis

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Unsolved Cases: Barbara Lewis' Body Found a Mile from Home

The murder of the 30-year-old secretary from Penn Hills has never been solved.

Long Road in Penn Hills gets a fair amount of morning rush hour traffic, school and Port Authority buses, along with commuters leaving their homes and heading for their jobs in Pittsburgh. Weekday mornings, at the end of Long Road, cars often form a line waiting to make a left hand turn at the Churchill Valley Country Club onto Beulah Road. As they drive up the hill, they pass the Blackridge Civic Association clubhouse and then, at the top of the hill, intersect with the Parkway East or Penn Avenue toward Wilkinsburg. When Barbara Jean Lewis graduated from Penn Hills High School in 1964, she had her eye on a secretarial career. Her dream to enter the business world came true. She was a secretary at the downtown Pittsburgh offices of …

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