As a retired officer for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Bob knows a little bit about the laws and areas of Pennsylvania and has been involved with Duffy’s Cut since the beginning of the project. Bob is also an avid Bagpiper and often plays along with Bill Watson. Bob, who is originally from Philadelphia and now resides in Chester County is often seen at either of the sites where research is still ongoing.
About Mac
Mac has been an integral part of the Duffy’s Cut team for several years and has been a great help with the ongoing search that has now extended to Northwood Cemetery in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. Originally from Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania, Mac has remained in the area and is the Men’s Lacrosse Defensive Coordinator at Monsignor Bonner, a Catholic High School in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania.
Matt is a Lancaster native and a Navy veteran, he studied forensic dentistry at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida and at the former Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D. C. He is a partner and practitioner at Patterson/Votilla Denistry for Life in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Matt was an integral part in giving his expertise to the partial jaw bone that was discovered at Duffy’s Cut. The jaw bone was linked back to the Ruddy family in Ireland due to DNA entombed inside the teeth and to the fact that the Ruddy family had an extremely rare genetic anomaly – They’re born with no upper right first molar a similarity they share with the jaw bone found.
Rich is a Guest Services Associate at Mercer Museum and Fronthill Castle in Doylestown. Rich is a History graduate from Immaculata University with a Master’s Degree in Secondary Education. He studied Public History at La Salle University. Rich was an NEH scholar at Immaculata in 2016 and has been interested in Duffy’s Cut for a number of year, becoming an integral part of the dig team at Duffy’s Cut and currently at Norwood.
J. Francis (Frank) Watson is the Pastor of Christ Lutheran Church, Whiting, NJ, Archivist of the New Jersey Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and President of the Lutheran Archives Center at Philadelphia. He is a founding member of the Duffy’s Cut Project, and has been involved in the primary archival and archaeological research into the project along with William E. Watson and Earl S. Schandelmeier (and the late John Ahtes), since its inception in 2002-2003. Frank coauthored the book The Ghosts of Duffy’s Cut and his research was featured in the two documentaries (“The Ghosts of Duffy’s Cut,” Smithsonian/RTE, 2006, and “Death on the Railroad,” PBS/RTE, 2013). In addition to numerous articles in journals, books, and magazines, Frank has recently published a new book entitled The Nazi Spy Pastor. He holds a Ph.D. in historical theology from Drew University.