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Heck is charged in the 2002 killing of Sabrina Kahler.
On Monday, Sept. 21, David Heck, 50, of Indiana, was charged in Erie County with the 2002 rape, murder, and kidnapping of Sabrina Kahler, then 20. Her body has not been recovered.
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer ·
Charges from a grand jury presentment are allegations. They are not a conviction. On Monday, Sept. 21, 2026, Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday and Erie County District Attorney Elizabeth Hirz announced charges against Heck, 50, of Indiana, for the 2002 rape, murder, and kidnapping of Sabrina Kahler, then 20, in Erie County, and he was taken into custody at his Indiana home late Monday night. Her body has not been recovered, and that fact is not a conviction.
The statewide investigating grand jury's presentment alleges that on June 24, 2002, Heck took Kahler swimming and then to the Fairview Gravel Pits near Lake Erie, where he raped and killed her. Her body has never been located. A court declared her deceased in 2009. Searches continue. Grand jury testimony described an Elk Creek Access burial area. That testimony is part of the presentment. It is not proof entered at a trial, and it is not a recovered body.
The charges were filed Monday, Sept. 21, 2026. Custody at his Indiana home late that night is an arrest. It is not a finding of guilt. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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