Joy Hibbs: Latest News

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. - Bucks County officials announce an arrest of a 56-year-old man in connection with in an April 1991 cold case homicide.Robert Atkins, a 56-year-old man from Falls Township, in Bucks County, voluntarily turned himself in to Bucks County officials, after a "tireless" investigation by Bucks County Detectives and a recommendation by a grand jury.Atkins is charged with one count of first degree murder, one count of second degree murder, two counts of robbery and seven counts of arson in a case dating to 1991.Officials stated the grand jury concluded that Atkins murdered 35-year-old Joy Hibbs on April 19, 1991, at her home in Croydon. She had been stabbed repeatedly and was likely asphyxiated. Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub explained, during a press conference, Hibbs’ autopsy indicated there was no smoke in her lungs, indicating she had been murdered before the fire of her home being set.Joy Hibbs with her children.

BUCKS COUNTY, Pa. - The family of a slain Bucks County woman is increasing their reward to $50,000 for information or answers to solve her murder. "This person not only took my mother they took a family and destroyed it they have no idea," said Hibbs' daughter.Time hasn’t lifted pain for the daughter of Joy Hibbs, a Bucks County woman who was murdered in her home in Croydon Estates Development in 1991.According to police reports, 35-year-old Hibbs was a married mother of two and a part-time medical assistant was strangled and stabbed. The killer set the house on fire.