Rescue
At the Rubeck farm, searchers converged on Hollenbaugh and Peggy Ann. He opened fire with a pistol, ducked behind a corncrib and ran across the road to the porch of a farmhouse. Two shots rang out simultaneously—one fired by Larry Rubeck, 15, from the farmhouse, the other by a state policeman. Hollenbaugh fell dying.
At first it was thought that Larry Rubeck had killed Hollenbaugh. That was reported in newspapers published that afternoon, May 18, 1966, and the following morning. Later it was determined that State Trooper Grant H. Mixell fired the fatal shot.
Peggy Ann was taken to the Fulton County Medical Center and reunited with her family. She had no serious injuries and had not been sexually assaulted, but her feet were badly blistered and she was dehydrated. She gave an interview with the media a few days later. She left the Medical Center on June 1.
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