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Overturned conviction, Susan Reinert murder case Jay C. Smith (June 5, 1928 – May 12, 2009) [ 1 ] was an American high school principal in Pennsylvania who was convicted and sentenced to death in 1986 for the 1979 murder of one of his school's teachers, Susan Reinert, and her two children, Karen and Michael.
Echoes in the Darkness is the title of a 1984 book by crime writer Joseph Wambaugh which also became a made-for-TV movie in 1987. [2] The book details the lurid tale of the murder of Pennsylvania's Upper Merion Area High School English teacher Susan Reinert and her two children in 1979. The case captured national media attention.
Susan Reinert and her two children, Karen and Michael, disappeared in June 1979. Susan's murdered body was later found in her car in Harrisburg; her children were never found and are presumed dead. The murders were orchestrated by Bill Bradfield, Susan's co-worker and fiancée who stood to benefit financially from her death.
Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh Jr. (born January 22, 1937) [1] is an American writer known for his fictional and nonfictional accounts of police work in the United States. Many of his novels are set in Los Angeles and its surroundings and feature Los Angeles police officers as protagonists.
A Philadelphia man who was given a $4.1 million settlement after serving 24 years in prison for a murder conviction that was scrapped confessed to a separate killing -- over a paltry $1,200 drug debt.
Almost 30 years after being convicted of rolling her car into a South Carolina lake and drowning her two sons, Susan Smith is up for parole. Smith, 53, is serving life in prison after being ...
The Philadelphia Main Line, known simply as the Main Line, is an informally delineated historical and social region of suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Lying along the former Pennsylvania Railroad 's once prestigious Main Line , it runs northwest from Center City Philadelphia parallel to Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike , also known as U ...
The memory of the murder, buried in her mind for 20 years, came back in a flash. Eileen Franklin-Lipsker suddenly knew who had killed her childhood best friend, 8-year-old Susan Nason, who was ...