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HOLLIDAYSBURG A 26-year-old Hollidaysburg woman found dead in 2004 at Canoe Creek State Park would have gone through an extreme amount of pain, fear and anxiety in the events leading up to her death, based on testimony of two forensic pathologists offered Monday in Blair County Court.
The examination of Tina S. Miller’s body and an autopsy report generated no conclusions on the sequence of events leading up to her death, the forensic pathologists reported.
But they did reveal that before she took her last breath on June 27, 2004, the young woman was struck three times on the head, dragged through brush, restrained with duct tape, sodomized to mutilation, strangled and her face was shoved into the lake bed of the park, which likely caused her to drown. Miller’s partly-clothed body was found at the edge of the lake by a couple who were fishing in a small boat.