Pennsylvania State Police announced Wednesday that confessions from a convicted serial killer have helped them close four homicide cold cases.
Police say Edward Surrant confessed to the killings to State Police investigators who interviewed him at a corrections facility in Raiford, Florida.
Surrant is currently servicing two life sentences for crimes committed in Florida and was convicted of murder in South Carolina.
State Police say he is responsible for the 1977 killings of William and Nancy Adams, Guy and Laura Mills and Joel Krueger as well as the 1978 killing of John Shelkons.
The cases were being investigated by investigators in the Beaver, Bedford and McConnellsburg stations. Conversation with Surrat began in 2018.
According to police, district attorneys in each county will not prosecute Surrant because of the sentences he's already serving.
“PSP investigators never stopped seeking justice for the victims of these terrible crimes and their families,” said Lieutenant Colonel Scott Price, deputy commissioner of operations for the Pennsylvania State Police. “We hope that the confessions announced today will help bring some semblance of closure to the victims’ loved ones.”