Graham Hetrick grew up talking to his father while he would embalm the dead in their family owned funeral home. They lived above the funeral home when Hetrick was a child. Now, Hetrick has been the Dauphin Country Coroner for over 25 years. He discusses his cases as part of Investigation Discovery’s forensic series, “The Coroner: […]

Curtis Vreeland is the President of Vreeland & Associates. He specializes in marketing research and analysis, as well as events management. He is responsible for producing the company’s U.S. Chocolate Market Report that provides sales data on the overall market for chocolate, including trends and forecasts. He’s been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Chicago […]

Jimmy Jones, who still lives in the Harrisburg area, was inducted into the University of Southern California’s (USC) Athletic Hall of Fame in 2015. After playing for USC in college, he was drafted into the Canadian Football League, at a time when there were no black starting quarterbacks in the NFL, where he played for […]

Stephen Clark is the Superintendent of the National Parks of Western Pennsylvania. This includes the Flight 93 National Memorial, Johnstown Flood National Memorial, Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, Fort Necessity National Battlefield, and Friendship Hill National Historic Site. Clark has been with the NPS for over 30 years. Clark started the first annual State of the […]

In 2004, while running the Marine Corps Marathon, BethAnn Telford felt a “pop” in her head around mile marker nineteen and over the next couple of months started to experience problems with her balance and unclear thoughts. After several weeks of tests in the early winter of 2005, she learned she had brain cancer and […]

Angelo Ciotti is an Environmental Reclamation Artist from the Pittsburgh area. Ciotti was always fascinated by the abandoned coal mines that dotted the area he lived in. They served as an inspiration to his imagination. He began working on reclaiming mines in 1972, with the main concern being on coal-rich PA to address problems of […]

Chet Williamson has written horror, science fiction, and suspense since 1981. Among his novels are Second Chance, Hunters, Defenders of the Faith, Ash Wednesday, Reign, Dreamthorp, and the forthcoming Psycho Sanitarium, an authorized sequel to Robert Bloch’s classic Psycho. Over a hundred of his short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, The […]

Jerry Lee is the Chairman of WBEB MORE-FM and President of the Jerry Lee Foundation. He was born April 20, 1936 in Sharon, PA. In 1963, he moved to Philadelphia forming a partnership with the late Dave Kurtz to launch a brand new radio station, WDVR 101-FM. As time went on, they changed their call […]

Ted Benna is commonly referred to as the “father of 401(k)” due to creating and gaining IRS approval of the first 401(k) savings plan. He grew up on a Pennsylvania dairy farm. His dad gave him is own cow when he was seven years old, to take care of and raise to start earning a little […]

Born in the South but raised in the Midwest, Homer Floyd went to University of Kansas on a football scholarship. After graduation, he played in Canada’s professional league, but soon realized “there was life after football” and became active in civil rights. He came to Harrisburg in 1970 as executive director of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission […]