PERMANENT POST – ARREST THE KILLER!

AND A SURPISE FOR MARV TOMORROW!

HITCHHIKERS, CRABS
AND KITTENS!

    Don’t pick up hitchhikers.
One of the tips in today’s WGAL story, “Elderly people should take caution against intruders,” (click here).
    There is still no word of an arrest in the murder of an 83-year-old woman in Lancaster. After the horrific arson murder of Olga Sanchez-Reyes, I wrote “THE TOP TEN THINGS LANCASTER DETECTIVES SAY,” (click here).
    I hope I don’t have to rework the list for this case! Chief Sadler, you said you would catch the killer and we want him caught – now!
    And WGAL, your graphic is a bit over the top! Not to mention that I haven’t seen a hitchhiker in years!
DISRESPECTFUL!
    Reinaker suggested that Thomas reacted to impress his girlfriend.
    “You felt your girlfriend had been disrespected and that’s what caused your blood to boil,” he said. “And so you, the macho football player, decided to confront this person. And you did so loudly and profanely.”
From today’s article, “Crab legs assailant sentenced,” (click here).
    Disrespected? This judge needs to be removed from the bench.
    This whole case received ridiculous coverage and speaking of profane, there are profanity laced comments below this story. I flagged two of them last night and they are still there. If the Lancaster Newspapers are going to use this comment system, they better have someone available 24/7.
    And I will come back to Judge Reinaker’s racist, stupid statement later on this site
WHO WROTE IT BETTER?
    Bloodied and dirty Riegen looked at Madzelan.
    “I’m sorry,” she said sheepishly.
    He laughed.
    “This is what we do,” he said. “I’ve done stranger things.”
From the York Daily Record’s story, “Woman on Rt. 30 gets stuck in car hood while trying to rescue 3 cats,” (click here).   
    If you enjoyed Larry Alexander’s piece on the three kittens in an engine story this morning, Emily Opilo of YDR did a much better job. Her storytelling is far superior and she got both pictures and a video!
    Larry gives her credit at the bottom of his story – but she was actually at the scene and wrote one of those “human interest” stories we all love to read. Meow!
    LIP News is taking the afternoon off, but I’ll be back tomorrow with my special surprise for Sunday News Editor “Marvelous” Marv Adams!

KILLER STILL ON THE LOOSE!

MORE THAN 48 HOURS!

    I want to document the huge headline from this morning’s paper. There is still no word of an arrest in yet another horrific murder.
    I wouldn’t want to live on her block. I wouldn’t want to live five blocks away. I wouldn’t want to live in the city at all.
    How will people sleep tonight?
    Have a good Friday and please check back tomorrow.

AND HE’S NOT VERY GOOD AT IT!

IT’S HIS JOB!

    “Chief says police will catch killer” is this morning’s huge front page headline in the print edition of the Intell/New Era.
    Well, that’s his job! Let’s get on it Chief, and arrest this killer!
    Yesterday I linked to WGAL’s November 10, 2010 piece on the unsolved murder of Juan Lopez (click here).  At the very end, did you catch what reporter Ron Martin says? He says: “Tomorrow we go to York County for Hanover’s only unsolved murder.”
    They only have one? Yes, I know Hanover is considerably smaller than Lancaster, but there is still something very, very wrong here and I will have much more on this later.
    Did you also catch Detective George Bonilla in the piece? He’s due to receive an award in several days and I have a lot more to say about him!
    Did you see today’s other headline: “Report: Convention center doing OK?” No, it’s not! Where’s LNP’s disclaimer on this story?
    There’s a lot to cover including updates on my requests to find out if autopsies were performed on the two women found hanging from trees within a week – and I’m all excited – I have another Sunday surprise for Sunday News Editor “Marvelous” Marv Adams.
    You know, I work very hard at these surprises and I hope he’s appreciative! This one is pretty darn good!
Please check back later today.

SLEEP WELL, CHIEF?

KILLERS ON THE LOOSE!

       Police Chief Keith Sadler said the public should feel uneasy that a person who would commit such an “evil” act is still out there.
    “I don’t think anyone should feel comfortable knowing there is someone who could do that.” he said. “Somebody who would do this is a coward, to do something like this to an elderly person who can’t defend herself.”
This afternoon’s update, “Investigation continues in murder of elderly woman; No arrests yet,” (click here).
    Well, there’s nothing like honesty, Chief! But there’s a problem, Chief. You’re leaving a lot of evil killers on the street making everyone very, very uneasy.
    This is not good detective work, Chief!
    The top photo is Juan Lopez, murdered on December 5, 2007 (click here for WGAL’s “Store owner gunned down”).
    The second photo down is Lydia Colon-Torres, killed on September 25, 2009 (click here for “A WALK FOR SANDWICHES”).
    The next photo is Spencer Houston, shot to death on May 19, 2011 (click here for “ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER UNSOLVED MURDER”).
    The bottom photo is Olga Sanches-Reyes, killed by an arsonist on December 6, 2010 (see the permanent box at the top of this site).
   That’s a lot of killers on the loose, Chief! What’s going on?  Should we sleep well?

WRAP IT UP!

LOW NOTES!   

    Rapper, slain rapper, hip-hop musician, hip-hop artist, local rapper, rap artist, local rap artist.
    These are some of the terms used repeatedly for the victim in Lancaster Newspaper headlines during Jakeem Towles’ trial.
    Who was murdered? Do you know his name?
Please check back later today.

DISGUSTING AND INACCURATE

BLATANTLY RACIST HEADLINE 

    ” ‘I’m a dead man walking. I saw the body drop. I have to get out of (Lancaster),’ ” Towles told a friend, according to Larsen.
First Assistant District Attorney Christopher Larsen quoted from his opening statement to the jury by reporter Brett Hambright in his May 7, 2012 article, “Alleged killer’s trial begins,” (click here).
    Around 11:30 p.m., Arpasia Bridgman drove Towles and another man to the city for $20, she testified. Words were exchanged during the 20-minute ride, Bridgman said.
    “You all better not tell nobody,” Towles told the people in the car, according to her testimony. “I’m getting out of (Lancaster). I seen bodies drop.”
A witness in the trial quoted by Brett Hambright in his May 9, 2012 article, “Witness: Alleged hip-hop artist’s killer planned to flee,” (click here).
    In the print edition of the paper on Thursday, May 10th, they ran the above second article on Page B-1 with the large, bold headline, “‘I seen bodies drop.’”
    On May 14th, I published the headline under my headline, “1950’S STEREOTYPE!” and said this
    It’s disgusting and inaccurate! This would not have made print in a Philadelphia paper or any other paper I can think of.
    Larsen used correct grammar. Larsen said “body” not “bodies.” Only one body dropped.
    Hambright was quoting a witness who was repeating what she said Towles said to her. Who had the bad grammar – the witness or Towles? Why would Towles say “bodies” when only one dropped.
    It was a racist headline done by the Lancaster Newspapers and it was done purposely to try to bolster, promote and continue ridiculous and inaccurate 40-year-old stereotypes about black people.
    There were many more stereotypes repeated during their coverage of this trial and their coverage of everything that happens in Lancaster County on a daily basis.
There will be much more tomorrow.

[Editor's Note:  The spacing between the various quotation marks in the opening sentences are directly from LNP's online version of the story - and I believe they are incorrect!]

* SENTENCED TO DEATH

    If I don’t love my own people, who else will? Everyday I hear and see the unequivocal evidence of our “society’s” view of my people; criminal, lazy, ugly, gangster, scary, drug abuser/pusher, absentee, uneducated….We are a beautiful and proud people, with a wonderful and storied journey and history on this planet called earth.
Posted on Facebook.
I have a lot to say today.  Please check back later.

   * Oh, my God!  Are those black feet on the scale on the homepage of Lancaster Online?

* UPDATED – LIFE ON THE LINE

 * The jury is still deliberating as of 3:30 pm today per my phone conversation with Diane in Judge Howard Knisely’s chambers. 

FINAL DESTINATION

Understanding.
Smiling.
Charming.
Wishes to have every playstation game.
Dreams of having a dog to play with again.
Wants to play baseball.
Wonders who is going to be the first female president.
Who fears killing.
Who is afraid of K.K.K.
Who likes football.
Who believes in God.
Who loves to eat Jr. Whoppers from Burger King.
Who plans to be a good father.
Whose final destination is heaven.
    A handwritten poem by Jakeem Towles at the age of 10 and presented in the death penalty phase of his trial yesterday in the Lancaster County Courthouse.

     This is going to be the hardest decision of your lives. This is the hardest thing for all of us.
    Part of my heart is gone. I’ve dreaded this day. I’ve dreaded this moment. I don’t know if I’m good enough to do this.
    I wish I could sit down and talk with you. I wish we could have a conversation.
    You have been attentive jurors. The trust we have in you is deserved.
   Defense attorney Patricia Spotts addressing the jurors yesterday afternoon in her closing argument to save Jakeem, Towles from the death penalty.
Please check back later today.

EMOTIONAL MORNING IN COURT

DEATH PENALTY PHASE
    It was an emotional morning in the death penalty phase of Jakeem Towles’ trial in courtroom #3 of the Lancaster County Courthouse.  His mother, his aunt and her husband, and his sister testified along with Bryant Burgh, a Deacon in the Brightside Baptist Church and coach of their basketball team, and Joan Packston from Tristar Staffing.
    His sister was the last to testify before the lunch break and she broke down in tears as did his family sitting in the second bench.
    Asked how she felt about her brother facing the death penalty she responded, “It makes me sad.  He raised me and I don’t have a dad.  He gives me advice.” She began to sob as defense attorney Pat Spotts asked her to “pull it together.”
    She said she would try and said, “He tells me to stay in school.  He tells me to follow my dreams.”
    She told the court she wants to be a nurse.
    The jury heard primarily about the early years of Towles, the oldest of three brothers and one sister all to different fathers and a basicially absent mother.
    A doctor will be the last to testify on his behalf follwiing the lunch break and then Prosecutor Chris Larsen will give his closing statement followed by the defense.

1950′S STEREOTYPE!

‘I SEEN BODIES DROP’

    Did you seen it?
    This was the large headline in Thursday’s print edition on page B-1 to the article covering the murder trial of Jakeem Towles.
    It’s disgusting and inaccurate! This would not have made print in a Philadelphia paper or any other paper I can think of.
Please check back later today.

* UPDATED – DO YOU KNOW?

WHAT‘S GOING ON?
    I’ll keep this simple today and come back another day with far more detail.
    The below are Lancaster Newspaper “correspondents” for their 17 community sites based on School Districts. There are 28 total correspondents, not counting duplications from one site to another or any already on the LNP staff. They are all white.
    There are four different people named to call for advertising on the sites – they are the three at the far right of the second row – Carla Good, Aaron Sullivan and Sean O’Donnell, and the bottom row far left – Jeff Alboum. Needless to say, they are all white as well.
    Add these to the editorial staffs of the Intell/New Era (54) and the Sunday News (27), and you have a total of 113 on staff. One of these is a minority. After all, they need someone who speaks and writes Spanish to edit LaVoz, now don’t they?
    Have you seen the U.S. census figures for Lancaster County and the City of Lancaster? By golly, something just ain’t right here! What do you think is going on?

WHO ARE THEY?

   Do you know who they are? Have a great Mother’s Day and check back later.

* UPDATED – SHUT IT DOWN, NOW! – 2

* It’s been a busy day – but, yes, we need a citizen’s group to involve itself with the convention center and its aftermath and I will actively work on it in the upcoming weeks. Meanwhile, excellent comments are coming in below.
    A twenty-two year old man was found guilty of first degree murder today by a Lancaster jury. On Monday, the prosecution will go for the death penalty. Brett Hambright, the Lancaster Newspaper reporter covering the trial, has yet to tell us the racial and ethnic make-up of the jury. Lancaster County is notorious for its all-white juries and it’s many, many years past time that juries be representative of the citizens of the county. There will be much more on this, including another Sunday surprise for Sunday News editor, “Marvelous” Marv Adams! I bet he’s excited!
    My Right To Know requests regarding whether autopsies were performed on two women found hanging from trees in the County within a week has interested outside media. I will have updates on this shortly.
    Have a great Friday and I will be back tomorrow.

                  THE TIME IS NOW!
         Becky, a referendum could be launched, signatures gathered, and a vote could be forced by Lancaster Countians. Lancaster is a third class city and because of that residents have the right to write something to be considered a referendum and then be put up to general vote.It seems to me that the hoteliers have a lot to gain by this and might be interested in doing so.It should have been done before the W&S building was torn down but I feel that Lancastrians didn’t actually know (or care) that they had this right
    This has been done in other cities, third class or not, where the law allows the populace to mount a referendum and a special election to decide on it.
A comment in under “SHUT IT DOWN, NOW!” below.
    It’s time to take action, now!
Please check back later today.

SHUT IT DOWN, NOW!

VERY FEW OPTIONS!    

    “The number of events held at the Penn Square meeting center is well within industry standards and the number is growing.”

    What the F does that mean? The standard in the CC industry is FAILURE. With very few exceptions, these centers fail. Then they enlarge themselves and then they fail even bigger. We were supposed to be “different.”  We were supposed to piggyback on our tourism success and EXCEED industry standards. After that, we were supposed to see even more tourism by all those happy conventioneers that would return with their families.
    I guess that was all a load of BS because we are simply “within industry standards.”  Furthermore, with revenue from hotel taxes WELL BELOW projected levels, we don’t seem to be generating too many rooms before, during, or after (immediately or down the road) these conventions. They keep talking about events. Events don’t pay for this center…hotel rooms do and those are not the type of events that we seem to be attracting.
    This would be comical if it were not so sad. I am all for a County restaurant and sales tax. We were stupid enough to allow this to happen and now we need to take our medicine or close the place or bring in the slots…the options are not endless.
    Next time that you see them, please make sure you thank the following folks for the “gift”: Gib Armstrong, Mike Sturla, Paul Thibault, Ron Ford, Terry Kauffman, Charlie Smithgall, Rick Gray, Julie Dickson, Steve Diamantoni, Nelson Polite, Jim Pickard, Ted Darcus, the top brass at LNP, Rufus Fulton, Dale High, Nevin Cooley, Mark Fitzgerald, Tom Smithgall, Tom Baldridge, and John Esbenshade.
A comment posted under today’s story, “Lancaster County Convention Center funding urged,” (click here).
    Very well said and so very sad. I think you should move the Lancaster Newspapers to the top of the “thanks” list, though. Maybe Sunday News editor Marv Adams could make up the difference out of his own pockets? After all, he told us the chance of this happening was the same as “a huge volcano erupting in Pequea Township.”
    And I notice our now Coroner, Steve Diamantoni, is in your list! I’ll have more about him later today….

UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND RECKLESS!

DEEPLY, DEEPLY DISTURBING!
    Seven pieces of paper. $.65 in postage. The thick envelope came from the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records today acknowledging one of my appeals regarding whether an autopsy was performed on Louise Ward, a 50-year-old woman found hanging 25 feet up in a pine tree in Elizabethtown on March 28th of this year.
    I imagine almost the same seven pieces of paper at the cost of another $.65 in postage, will come tomorrow for my appeal regarding Isabel Bortree, another 50-year-old woman found hanging from a tree in the Burle Industrial Park six days later on April 4th of this year.
    An exact copy of all the correspondence was mailed to the Lancaster County Office of Open Records who denied my request.
    The letter informs me my appeal officer is Kyle Applegate, Esquire and the letter states “A final determination will be issued in 30 calendar days.”
    I would like to make it very clear to Coroner Steve Diamantoni and District Attorney Craig Stedman that copies of this correspondence will be mailed to members of the Pennsylvania House and Senate, the State Attorney General, the ACLU, and every major news outlet in Pennsylvania.
    As a private citizen, I explicitly have the right to know from the people I elect and pay to serve and protect me whether an autopsy was or was not performed following a sudden, violent and suspicious death. Actually, I have the right to know whether one was performed following any death in the county whatsoever.
    This can all be ended with a simple phone call – but if you want to maintain your absurd and deeply disturbing position that I do not have a right to know, then you will feel the consequences of your unconstitutional and reckless actions.
    Click here for my letter requesting the appeals and click here for today’s LNP article, “Quarryville woman’s death not suspicious,” a follow-up to this morning’s post immediately below. What do you know? The coroner did his job and had an autopsy performed on the victim of a sudden and possibly suspicious death!

MARIANNE MCMICHAEL

WOMAN’S BODY FOUND IN
LANCASTER COUNTY HOME
WGAL-TV (click here).
WGAL reports an autopsy is being performed in this case.
Please check back later today.

IN LOUISE WARD’S GARAGE!

A BRAND SPANKING
NEW
8 FOOT LADDER
Photo by Jodi Wolff on May 7, 2012

    There it was – leaning up against the far left wall in the garage at 36 N. Spruce Street where Louise Ward lived in Elizabethtown. The house and part of the garage are pictured above.
    The garage was locked and the windows were dusty so the picture is grainy – but it is a brand new, shiny eight foot ladder that looks like it has never been used.
    The house, owned by Ward’s father, is now for sale through RE/MAX of Hershey. Louise Ward, 50, was living in the home with her boyfriend and her niece when she allegedly committed suicide by climbing 25 feet up an Eastern White Pine behind her home on the afternoon of March 28th and hanging herself (see the stories immediately below).
    The niece is still living in the home while it is up for sale. The boyfriend’s whereabouts are unknown at this time as are the whereabouts of her former boyfriend, Daniel Fitzpatrick, who was released from prison after five months on February 9th of this year for assaulting Ward.
Please check back tomorrow.

MURDER IN ELIZABETHTOWN!

           CAN YOU CLIMB THIS TREE?

    Did Louise Ward climb 25 feet up this Eastern White Pine carrying a rope and commit suicide by hanging on a Wednesday afternoon in March? Or did someone kill Louise Ward in a very public way?
    Shocking new evidence is coming this afternoon.

THE TREE…

WITH A BENCH…

AND AN ASTOUNDING DISCOVERY

The Eastern White Pine, with a bench underneath, that 50-year-old Louise Ward allegedly climbed in Elizabethtown to hang herself from 25 feet high on March 28th of this year. Many more photos to follow including the shocking and explosive discovery!

HONESTLY, CINDY?

SIN CITY, USA?

    A big, blue Nash sedan. A rouge-stained handkerchief. A chinchilla lap robe. A gangster found in a torched car at a New Jersey dump.
    One honest, dead cop.
From today’s front page story by Cindy Stauffer, “The enduring mystery of Elwood Gainor – 85 years later, murder of city officer unsolved, unsettling,” (click here).
    What a hoot! The Lancaster Newspapers and Cindy Stauffer come back with this ridiculous story. There is also this from the article:
    “There was a lot of money surrounding the liquor and beer business,” Frey said. “Evidently, some police officers were involved with the bootleggers, working in distributing, or as a guard.”
    Gainor’s reputation continued to cut a wide swath after his killing. McMullin heard about the lieutenant when he joined the police force in 1950, 23 years after Gainor’s murder.
    “He was the only honest man they had on the job,” he said, adding, “Lancaster was Sin City, USA.” 
    Well, it’s nice to think they had one honest cop! How and when did they clean all of this up, Cindy? Or did they?
Please check back later today.

LNP PROTECTS THE CORONER & OTHERS!

                   MURDER OR SUICIDE?                                           

                                                         Louise Ward

     Walter had some advice for the killer.
    “Don’t buy any green bananas,” he said.
    Said Geesey [Lancaster County Detective Joseph P. Geesey]: “We’re about two steps behind them.”
From the article on June 16, 2006 by Cindy Stauffer on the 1975 murder of Lindy Biechler, “Probers to killer: We’re getting closer.” (click here).
    Of course, the Lancaster Newspapers never followed up on this story. They didn’t call Detective Joseph P. Geesey every day and ask when an arrest would be made.  They didn’t call him after two weeks when those bananas would surely be ripe and ask why no one had been charged with murder. They didn’t ask him what had gone wrong. They didn’t ask him why he didn’t take the two steps and arrest a killer.
    In any other town with any other newspaper, they would have called and called and not taken “no” for an answer. Not in Lancaster. Officials know they can say things like this and there will be no follow-up, no demand for answers, no call to hold anyone accountable, no call for new detectives to work the case.
    Nope, all they have to do is say nonsense and that’s the end of it.
    Do you see the box immediately above on this site? There are one or two arsonists on the loose and one of them is a killer. In any other town, there’d be pressure on the police to solve this horrific murder. Reporters would be calling the detectives everyday and demanding accountability from them and the Police Chief.
    Not the Lancaster Newspapers. Nope. They’ve run two stories and it’s over. Another unsolved murder in Lancaster County going down on the books and added to the numerous others, leaving multiple killers on the loose.
    In fact, these newspapers do the inexplicable and the opposite of their ethical and moral obligation as members of the media. They cover for the officials we pay to protect and serve us.
    Cindy Stauffer did just that went she wrote a general piece on suicide after two women were found hanging from trees in Lancaster County within a week. She failed to mention that this is a highly unusual way for women to commit suicide.
    She didn’t mention that the first woman, Louise Ward, was a victim of domestic violence and her abuser had been released from prison for that abuse just a little over a month prior to her death.
    She didn’t answer how an overweight woman climbed 25 feet up in a tree. She didn’t ask the police how they “knew” it was a suicide within hours when those very police had been called to Ward’s home multiple times for domestic violence incidents. She didn’t ask if either woman had drugs or alcohol in their systems.
    And Cindy Stauffer never mentioned an autopsy, which would have answered most of the questions. Never. That’s what the Lancaster Newspapers do – protect officials instead of the public.
    When the Lancaster Newspapers do this sort of cover-up, it immediately draws the attention of any careful reader.
    So I put in several calls to the coroner’s office simply asking if autopsies had been performed. Coroner Diamantoni’s assistant Sue, who surely knows, was evasive and refused to answer the question. The Coroner never returned my calls with an answer, so I filed a Right To Know request on April 19, 2012. And the District Attorney’s Office, in a two page letter, denied my request.
    Can you imagine? Can you imagine this happening anywhere else but in Lancaster County?
    I wanted to cover so much more today, but there just isn’t time. I’ll try to catch up this week on the convention center, terrible judges, racism at the Lancaster Newspapers, the County’s letter to me and much more.

NATIONAL ATTENTION NEEDED!

MURDERS OF WOMEN!
    The only way the unsolved murders of women in Lancaster County will ever be solved is if somehow national attention is attracted.
A comment in under “A HORSE’S ASS!” below on this site.
    Wow! I have a lot to say today including the County of Lancaster’s denial of my open records request to simply find out if autopsies were performed on two women found hanging from trees within a week.
    And, yes, Sunday News Editor “Marvelous” Marv Adams is a horse’s ass times ten – maybe twenty!
Please check back later today.

IT’S FRIDAY!

Lady Gaga makes the front page?  You have to be kidding me! 
Serious news is coming later today!

HERE WE GO AGAIN…

             LNP: NO PICTURE = WHITE!

    The Lancaster Newspapers boldly display blatant racism yet again!  Yes, a picture of Peter Weida, the white, Mennonite boy whose father is a doctor and mother a school administrator, accompanies their online article, “Teen charged in meat cleaver attack to stand trial,” (click here).
    But there is no picture in this morning’s print edition. I even followed the continuation of the story to Page B-2, thinking his picture might be there. Nope. I guess there just wasn’t room, eh, LNP?
Please check back later today.

DA CRAIG STEDMAN & CORONER STEVEN DIAMANTONI

WE PAY THEM
TO PROTECT AND SERVE US!

    The following letter was mailed today along with a second, identical letter except referencing Right To Know Request Number 58-2012 regarding Isabel Bortree, found April 4, 2012, hanging from a tree behind Burle Industrial Park.
    Apparently in Lancaster County, District Attorney Craig Stedman and Coroner Steven Diamantoni don’t think the public has a right to know if an autopsy was performed or not on a sudden, suspicious and violent death victim. Amazing!
*********
May 2, 2012

Terry Mutchler
Executive Director
Office of Open Records
Commonwealth Keystone Building
400 North Street, 4th Floor
Harrisburg, PA 17120

Re: Appeal of Right-To-Know Request Number 62-2012

Dear Mr. Mutchler:

I am appealing the County of Lancaster’s denial of my Right-To-Know request referenced above. I have included my original request and their letter of denial.

It is readily apparent that the public has a right to know if an autopsy was performed following a sudden and violent death. My request is only to know if an autopsy was or was not performed on the body of Louise J. Ward, found March 28, 2012, hanging from a tree in Elizabethtown.

Surely the District Attorney knows if one was performed and, if for some reason DA Craig Stedman does not know, a simple call to the coroner’s office would take less time than writing their letter declining my request.

The County of Lancaster Right-To-Know Policy (http://www.co.lancaster.pa.us/lanco/lib/lanco/Res_99-Right_To_Know.PDF) defines “Record” as follows:

“’Record’ shall mean information, regardless of physical form or characteristics, that documents a transaction or activity of the County and is created, received or retained pursuant to law or in connection with a transaction, business or activity of the County. The term includes a document, paper, letter, map, book, tape, photograph, film or sound recording, information stored or maintained electronically and a data-processed or image-processed document.”

The Lancaster County Coroner certainly has a record of whether his office performed an autopsy or not on Ms. Ward and the public has a clear right to know this information.

Sincerely yours,

Rebecca Holzinger

Enclosures

STEPHAN TERSAK FROM LANCASTER COUNTY

MISSING!

        Terry Lynn Tersak has been missing for three years (click here). Her husband, Stephan T. Tersak, is from Lancaster County.
    Terry was a prolific poster on the Lancaster Online Talkback forum for several years posting as “Starling,” “Sally” and “TerryP.”
    If anyone has any information, please contact Ashville Detective Kevin Taylor at 828-259-5945.
Please click here for “MISSING” and check back later today.