Prelude
Peggy Ann was the oldest of six siblings. At the time she was kidnapped, she had a brother Jim, 16; a sister, Mary Louise, 11; twin brother and sister, Donnie and Debbie, 9; and a sister, Carol Jean, 8. Her parents were Eugene and Mildred Bradnick.
They lived in Shade Gap, Pennsylvania, a small village in Huntingdon County. Peggy Ann attended Southern Huntingdon County High School. When she was 10, she had to take care of 3 younger siblings, lost a year of school, and thus was only a Junior at the time she was kidnapped.
Hollenbaugh was convicted of burglary in 1939 and spent the next 20 years in prison and the insane asylum. In 1962 he came to Shade Gap. He was called "The Bicycle Man" or "Bicycle Pete" because he rode a bicycle all around the Shade Gap area. In August 1964 he broke into the home of Mrs. Christine Devinney. He shot a rifle out of her hand, but then bound her wound and left. Shortly thereafter, a woman driving on a back road was blocked by a pile of logs and a man fired a shot breaking her baby's nursing bottle. On Good Friday, April 16, 1965, Ned Price surprised a trespasser on his property and was shot and lost a leg. These incidents and others led to this sniper being known as "The Mountain Man." Hollenbaugh told Peggy Ann that he was responsible for these shootings.
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