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Jillian Pikora

Senior Assistant Managing Editor

jpikora@dailyvoice.com

Jillian is an editor and reporter based out of Pennsylvania's capital city of Harrisburg. She has a degree in Political Science and is a former political campaign manager. For over a decade, she has worked as a staff reporter and freelance writer at Sisters Magazine, The Tempest, Huffington Post, CairoScene, and several other outlets. Before joining Daily Voice, Jillian worked as a digital news editor at Hearst's local NBC affiliate, WGAL News 8. She currently assists in managing Virginia, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts; as well as reporting stories in Pennsylvania for Daily Voice.

Jillian Pikora's Contributions

Police & Fire

Children Find Human Remains In Harrisburg Park Children fishing and playing in a Harrisburg area park found human remains, police announced on Friday, June 23, 2023. The children found the bones "in a heavily wooded section of Reservoir Park," on Thursday, June 21, 2023, according to the Highspire Borough Police Department. Citizen's Fire Company #1 of Highspire came to the scene to help clear the brush and provided lighting so that Highspire Police and the Dauphin County Forensic Team could process the scene. The Dauphin County Coroner's Office was called and confirmed the bones were human remains. "No identification has …

by Jillian Pikora

06/23/2023

Police & Fire

PA Man Rapes Pit Bull Multiple Times In Videos Posted On Twitter: Affidavit Editor’s Note: This story was originally published with an image that was not that of Gavin Thomas Kitchen, but of another person. The image has since been removed. Apologies. A Central Pennsylvania man admitted to performing "sex acts" with a pit bull— and uploading videos of the acts along with child porn onto Twitter, according to court documents obtained by Daily Voice. Pennsylvania State Police began investigating 21-year-old Gavin Thomas Kitchen after receiving a cyber tip submitted by Twitter back in January 2023, according to a release on Thursday, June 22, 2023. When t…

by Jillian Pikora

06/22/2023

News

Man Who Raped, Murdered 85-Year-Old Relative Not Sex Offender Nearly 35 years after then-24-year-old Christopher Joseph Larry Speelman raped and murdered his 85-year-old relative, he has finally been sentenced— but he's not a sex offender, according to the court. Now, 59, Speelman has been sentenced to spend the next 25 to 50 years in prison by Judge Thomas Campbell after pleading guilty to murder in the third degree, burglary, and a no contest to rape, according to Adams County District Attorney Brian Sinnett. Speelman confessed raping and then smothering Edna Laughman with a pillow at her home in the 1500 block of Carlisle Pike, Oxford Townsh…

by Jillian Pikora

06/22/2023

Police & Fire

Armed Robbery Filmed In Central PA: Police Armed men robbed a van at gunpoint in Central Pennsylvania on Wednesday morning, police announced the following day. A van was robbed in the parking lot of Quality Gas Mart at 101 Bridge Street, New Cumberland around 9:40 a.m. on June 21, 2023, area police explained. The two robbers were dressed in all black and had their faces covered. One of the men, "grabbed the victim and held him a gunpoint while demanding the victim to open the safe in the van," the police said. The other robber "grabbed a money bag from the van," the police said added that, "The suspects fled the scene wi…

by Jillian Pikora

06/22/2023

Police & Fire

Missing Teen Girl Ran Away From Mom, York County Police Say A 15-year-old girl was last seen running away from her mother, police in York County announced on Thursday, June 22, 2023. Angel-Nevah Nicollete Kemper ran away from her mother at the VFW at 199 Veterans Way in Spring Grove around 9 p.m. on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, according to York County Regional police. She was last seen wearing a gray and blue hoodie with horizontal stripes, as detailed in the release. She is described as being approximately 5”5” tall and weighing 200 lbs, according to the police. Anyone with information about Angel's whereabouts is asked to call 911…

by Jillian Pikora

06/22/2023

Police & Fire

4-Year-Old Child Hands Heroin To PA Police During Traffic Stop: Affidavit A preschool handed police "mommy's medicine"— as known as heroin— during a traffic stop in Western Pennsylvania on Sunday, June 18, 2023, according to court documents obtained by Daily Voice. Christine Lynn Kregiel, 33, was spotted stumbling out of her Chevy Equinox with a young child in the car, so a bystander called the police, according to the affidavit of probable cause. Plum Borough police responded and observed her running two stop signs and driving over the yellow line on Plum Street. When she pulled over on Renton Road she was crying, slurring her words, and she appeared …

by Jillian Pikora

06/22/2023

Obituaries

CEO ID'd As Motorcyclist Killed In PA/MD Stateline Crash A CEO, motorcyclist, wrestler, "son, father, husband, brother, cousin, and friend" fatally crashed into a tree by a cemetery along the Pennsylvania and Maryland state line the day after Father's Day, as his brother Xavier Keihl explained in a GoFundMe for his friend's family. Darrion Scott Latimore, 27, of the 2800 block of Myers Road, North Corodus Township died just under two hours after a crash into a tree in the 6700 block of Steltz Road in Codorus Township around 6 p.m. on Monday, June 19, 2023, the York County Coroner's office detailed in a release the following Wednesday. His death…

by Jillian Pikora

06/22/2023

Police & Fire

Man In Critical Condition Following Harrisburg Shooting: Police A man has been hospitalized following a shooting in Harrisburg, authorities announced on June 22, 2023. A report of "shots fired" in the area of Rolleston and Sycamore streets led police to the man around 1:30 a.m. Thursday morning, according to the police release. The man suffered a single gunshot wound and was transported to a local hospital in critical condition, the police explained. The shooting investigation is active and as far as we know no arrests have been made. A reward of an unknown amount is available for information leading to an arrest. Anyone with i…

by Jillian Pikora

06/22/2023

News

PA Dad Of 3 Who Killed Wife, Burned House Down Learns His Fate: DA "He lied since day one," Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Ponessa said of Carlos Montalvo-Rivera. The 55-year-old Lancaster liar who concocted a wild story "that intruders broke into the home, killed his wife, and set fire to it out of retaliation for the victim’s brother, who had cooperated with the DEA in an unrelated case," was sentenced on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, according to a release by the Lancaster County District Attorney's office. Montalvo-Rivera has been sentenced to "life in prison – plus 20 years – for deliberately setting fire to his family’s home a…

by Jillian Pikora

06/21/2023

Police & Fire

Drug Dealer Gave Man 30 Deadly Doses Of Fentanyl, Palmyra Police Allege A Pennsylvania parole violator is accused of giving a man enough fentanyl to cause the deaths of 30 adults, police said. Tyler Michael Singer, 27 of North Locust Street, Palmyra has been arrested in connection with the July 2022 death of a 26-year-old Gregory "Greg" Ristenbatt, Palmrya police said. Ristenbatt was found dead from a drug overdose in the 200 block of College Street, Palmyra at 12:16 p.m. on Saturday, July 16, 2022. Originally it was said that Greg "passed away unexpectedly after a long, brave battle with addiction," as stated in his obituary but it is now known that he had …

by Jillian Pikora

06/21/2023

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