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Sunbury police created this Facebook page in hopes it would bring new information about a cold case, the 1989 disappearance of Barbara Miller.

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SUNBURY -- The Sunbury police chief says he is shocked at all the information he is getting since he created a Facebook page Wednesday in the name of a cold case homicide.

"It's good stuff," Chief Timothy S. Miller said Friday. "I think the case is 100 percent solvable."

Some of the information provided since the Barbara Miller - Cold Case Facebook page was created has come from people who had not come forward before, he said.

He already has conducted an extensive interview with one of those, he said. Those who have responded to the Facebook page appear to have good information about the 1989 disappearance of Miller, he said.

The lack of a body has hindered the investigation but Miller hinted he has gotten information that might change that.

Since Sunbury has a small police force, he said he might reach out to the state police cold case unit and the FBI for assistance or obtain permission to use a statewide grand jury.

The chief said he got the idea to use social media from an article he read on how to make a cold case hot again.

That article stated social media was a good way to reach out to people and to get them talking, he said. The Facebook page has gotten more than 200 "likes" so far.

Miller, who was no relation to the chief, was 30 when she was reported missing after she failed to attend a July 2, 1989 wedding reception.

Items she had taken home from the previous day's wedding were found in her Sunbury apartment.

Miller has been declared legally dead and her case has been classified as a homicide.

Chief Miller is the latest investigator to attempt to solve the case in which there are more than 6,000 pages of transcribed interviews.

A task force formed in 2002 worked solidly on the case for two years.

One of the leads it followed was an extensive a search for Miller's body in the abandoned zinc and lead Doughty Mines, a little more than a mile south of Sunbury near the Susquehanna River.

Theories expressed over the years about her death included it was related to drugs or a motorcycle gang.

There has been a person of interest but police say they do not have sufficient evidence to file charges and obtain a conviction.