Sunday, August 5, 2012
After the ‘woman at the bus stop’ tells her story about the day schoolgirl Beth Barr disappeared in 1977, other Patch readers offer more clues.
Editor’s note: This story originally ran in November 2011 on many Western PA Patch sites. Since that time, several persons have come forward with more information they feel can be helpful to the case, including potential suspects, possible vehicles used and other information, which has been shared with Allegheny County homicide detectives. The identity of the woman interviewed for this story is being withheld for her safety. The woman stood alone at about 8:30 a.m. on Nov. 23, 1977, at a Port Authority Transit stop in Wilkinsburg, waiting for the bus that would take her to her job in downtown Pittsburgh. The 24-year-old had grown up in Wilkinsburg, and she and her husband had purchased a property on nearby Rebecca Avenue, which they were …
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Vito Pelino of Penn Hills has been sentenced to life in prison for killing and dismembering the body of William King in 2011.
Vito Pelino, the man accused of killing and dismembering a Penn Hills man, has been sentenced to life in prison. According to court dockets, Allegheny County Judge Edward J. Borkowski sentenced Pelino to life in prison without parole for first-degree murder on Wednesday. He also was sentenced to an additional one to two years for the abuse of a corpse. Allegheny County police charged Pelino, 27, with the murder of 23-year-old Penn Hills resident William King in February 2011. Police said he cut King's body into pieces and stashed it in the woods off Route 909 on the border of Plum and Oakmont after the victim left a Verona bar with his sister. According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Pelino apologized to King's family and said the …
Monday, June 4, 2012
Zandy Dudiak won a third place award for a story about the kidnap-murder cold case of Beth Lynn Barr, of Wilkinsburg.
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Monday, June 4, 2012
Zandy Dudiak, associate regional editor of Western Pennsylvania Patch Region 2, won third place for enterprise reporting in the statewide Society of Professional Journalists, Keystone State Professional Chapter's 2012 Spotlight Awards. Her winning entry was "Kidnap-Murder Case 'Still Not A Lost Cause' 34 Years Later," which interwove the story of a woman who was approached by a man at a public bus stop just hours before 7-year-old Beth Lynn Barr was kidnapped on her way home from school the same day just blocks away—and how the two incidents might be related. The story was the first time the woman at the bus stop had been interviewed about the 1977 case. The award was presented Saturday in a ceremony at the Wyndham in Gettysburg, PA.
Monday, April 2, 2012
Corey Robert, 27, of Oakmont, was an accomplice in the killing and dismembering of Penn Hills resident William King.
An accomplice in the killing and dismembering of Penn Hills resident William King has pleaded guilty to abuse of a corpse. Corey Robert, 27, of Oakmont was sentenced to six months of intermediate punishment and three years of probation on March 28, according to court records. A county intermediate punishment sentence is a direct sentencing alternative that falls somewhere between probation and incarceration. Robert was accused of being the accomplice to Vito Pelino, 26, of Penn Hills. Police said Pelino killed King in February 2011, dismembered him and stashed body parts in the woods off Route 909 on the border of Plum and Oakmont after the victim left a Verona bar with his sister. Robert reported to police a few days later. A jury found …
Friday, March 16, 2012
A jury found Vito Pelino of Penn Hills guilty of killing and dismembering William King.
Vito Pelino, the man accused of killing and dismembering a Penn Hills man, has been convicted. According to WPXI, a jury found Pelino guilty of first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse on Thursday. Allegheny County police charged Pelino, 26, with the murder of 23-year-old Penn Hills resident William King in February 2011. Police said he cut King's body into pieces and stashed it in the woods off Route 909 on the border of Plum and Oakmont after the victim left a Verona bar with his sister. His sentencing is set for June 13, according to WPXI. _______________________ Plum-Oakmont Patch is on Facebook and on Twitter. Don't forget to sign up for our daily email newsletter by clicking here.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
The ‘woman at the bus stop’ tells her story about the day Wilkinsburg schoolgirl Beth Barr disappeared on Thanksgiving eve 1977.
Editor’s note: The identity of the woman interviewed for this story is being withheld for her safety. The woman stood alone at about 8:30 a.m. on Nov. 23, 1977, at a Port Authority Transit stop in Wilkinsburg, waiting for the bus that would take her to her job in downtown Pittsburgh. The 24-year-old had grown up in Wilkinsburg, and she and her husband had purchased a property on nearby Rebecca Avenue, which they were remodeling. The bus stop was close by on Ardmore Boulevard. As she waited in the chilly November air, a motorist pulled his car off the street, partially into an alley and onto the paved area of an auto repair garage—right next to her. “To the best of my recollection,” the woman said, during an interview last week, “... he …
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Thirty years after her unsolved murder, Christine Guenther is still on many people’s minds.
A woman sits in a crowded chapel, in the company of family, friends and strangers. She glances at the floor and notices a single autumn leaf. As the congregation progresses past her to receive the sacrament, their shuffling feet stir the leaf, causing it to spin and dance. At the conclusion of communion, the leaf rests so that its tip points at the woman, and she is reminded of another autumn leaf she saw three decades ago—a leaf pursed between the lips of her teenaged daughter, whose body was discovered buried under foliage following her murder. That woman is Carmen Mader, formerly Guenther. Her daughter’s name was Christine, and this year marks the 30-year anniversary of Christine’s unsolved murder. Fifteen-year-old Christine Guenther …
Maryellen
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