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UPDATE: Man Charged In 1991 Bristol Twp. Homicide
Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub is slated to hold a news conference on Wednesday to discuss a 1991 Bristol Township murder.
The district attorney’s office told reporters were will be a “significant update” in the case of homicide victim Joy Hibbs on Wednesday afternoon.
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It was unclear as of Tuesday evening what the major development is in the case or whether it has been solved.
Hibbs was stabbed to death and strangled inside her Spencer Drive home in Bristol Township’s Croydon section in April 1991. Her home was then set ablaze and firefighters discovered her badly burned body inside a bedroom, according to news clippings from the time.
The investigation has gone on for years, but no arrests have been made. Bristol Township police and Bucks County Detectives have probed the homicide.
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In 2021, the Philadelphia Inquirer followed up on the case and reported a reward of $50,000 had been offered. Hibbs’ family wants answers.
“This is something you can’t put behind you. You just learn to live with it,” Charlie Hibbs, the victim’s husband, told the newspaper in 2021. “I’m just reaching out for help. She was a good woman and she never harmed anyone in her life.”
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Hibbs violent homicide rocked the community in 1991 and has haunted the Hibbs family.
Prior to the murder, two visitors from a church visited Hibbs and prayed with her.
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