The Warren County Historical Society will be hosting the program, “Missing in the Pennsylvania Wilds,” by author James T. Baumgratz at the Warren County Courthouse, 204 Fourth Avenue, Warren, PA on Wednesday, February 1, 2023, at 6:00 PM. Over the years people have gone missing in the Pennsylvania Wilds and many have never been seen again. Join the author as he explores the cases of men, women, and children who have disappeared without a trace.  

In today’s world, over 600,000 people go missing each year in the United States. Most of these people are quickly located either dead or alive, but some remain missing for years or lost forever. In Pennsylvania alone, over four hundred open cases presently exist for missing people. Most of the open cases in Pennsylvania are recent disappearances. The author discovered that there is no master list for people who have gone missing before 1980. Through painstaking research, Mr. Baumgratz has spent many hours researching old newspaper accounts and coroner’s reports to make an accurate account of the missing and unidentified people from the Pennsylvania Wilds.

Mr. Baumgratz currently resides in St. Mary’s, Pennsylvania. He has been fascinated with true crime since his early teens and has devoted his writings to historic murder/mysteries that took place in the not so distant past. Future works will include several counties in Pennsylvania and New York.

For more information, please call the Warren County Historical Society at (814) 723-1795, visit www.warrenhistory.org or find us on Facebook.