In the year 2000, Alicia Markovich’s father was sent a shocking two-page letter that claimed to have been written by the young girl’s killer (via Justice for Alicia Markovich). Part of the letter has since been republished online and reads: “What gave me the idea to contact you was when I saw by chance an old missing persons flyer posted on the side of a mailbox in Philadelphia about three weeks ago. The second time I saw it, it was like everything faded to grey. Nothing seemed real for a long time. I thought that it all had been forever buried. I had spent the last 13 years erasing and boarding up the name Alicia Markovich in my mind and seeing that, it opened up the flood gates so to say to a limitless sea of remorse, guilt, anxiety, inner sadness, and depression.”
Hoping the letter would help them to crack the case, the police immediately investigated. The envelope was postmarked to the nearby town of Bedford, New Hampshire, but police found nothing of interest there. The people living at the house on the return address knew nothing about Markovich or the letter, and the police hit another dead end.
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Investigators also followed the letter’s instructions, which told them to search for Markovich’s body along the Conemaugh River, but sniffer dogs were unable to find anything. Ultimately the police concluded that the letter was a bizarre fake, and they eventually connected it to several other hoax letters sent from the same area, Daily American reported.
