On the evening of August 28,1981, a woman alerted police of a man slumped over the steering wheel of his car in on Sohn Road in Hopewell Township. When officers arrived, they found 39-year-old William Booher dead from a shotgun wound to his chest.
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Wiliiam Booher
Birth: 10/5/1941 - Death: 8/28/1981
Ethnicity: Caucasian - Sex: Male
Hometown: Hopewell Township, PA - Beaver County
Crime Scene: Sohn Road - stretch of road that connected Hopewell to Aliquippa in Beaver County, outside of Pittsburgh
Last Known Location Alive: Unknown
Injury Description: Gunshot wound to the chest
Suspect Description: Unknown
Additional Information: Police learned Booher took out substantial life insurance policies, benefiting both his wife and fiancée
DNA: Unknown
Fingerprints: Unknown
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Anyone with information about the death of William Booher should contact the Beaver County District Attorney’s office at 724-773-8550 or Crime Solvers at 724-774-2000, who as of 2017, had a $2,000 reward for any information leading to an arrest.
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