Phil Trexler was writing a story about the 42-year-old murder of a 12-year-old Portage Lakes girl.

What he found were notes from BJ reporters who covered the crime in 1962, including Lacy McCrary, who later went to the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Bill Berger, later in the BJ promotion department and shepherding children to the national Spelling Bee.

Lacy, now 82 and retired, spends a lot of time in Colorado these days and he’s an Air Force Academy fan, agony and all. Perhaps because he studied at United States Air Force Academy. 

Lacy has been married since 1965.

Phil’s story is about how Summit County sheriff’s detectives hope that DNA can help solve the 50-year-old case. Authorities got Marion’s body in Hillside Cemetery exhumed for DNA to compare to a man who was the prime suspect at the time and today 67 years old and living in Akron.

Marion’s body was found near Killian Road and South Main Street in Akron.

To read Phil’s story about the 1962 murder and 2014 reopening of the investigation, click on http://www.ohio.com/news/break-news/detectives-hope-new-dna-tests-will-solve-girl-s-slaying-in-1962-1.549546