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Retired Georgia minister is found not guilty in the 1975 killing of a girl in Pennsylvania

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Jury acquits David Zandstra , 84 , of the Atlanta suburb of Marietta , after deliberating for an hour .

Gretchen Harrington , 8 , disappeared in 1975 while walking alone to a Bible camp at a chapel.

Her body was found two months later by a jogger in Ridley Creek State Park in Media , Pennsylvania .

Defense attorneys said there was no physical evidence linking the retired minister to the girl's death.

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formal

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English

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