We found out that he was a real pervert, all kinds of sexual devices and various perverted stuff, District Attorney Bruce L. Castor Jr. told Forensic Files rather triumphantly. were relatively and mercifully swift, mitigating their conscious pain and suffering.. Andrew had an ex-girlfriend, Patricia Rorrer, who'd been familiar with the trail, and she'd previously managed a horse stable just a mile from the scene. Tests show the hairs are definitely a woman's..Rorrer is a cunning woman who almost committed the perfect crime and thought she had outsmarted police, McIntyre said. (To me, its not a spreeunless it starts in the morning and doesnt end until its too dark to find your car.). The thing about Katrinak is that she was actually found with her jeans unzipped and unbuttoned, suggesting a possible sexual assault. Walmart woe. BETHLEHEM, PA. BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) _ A woman was arrested in North Carolina on Tuesday and charged in the 1994 slaying of her ex-boyfriend's wife and infant son in Pennsylvania.Patricia L. Rorrer was charged with two counts of murder and two counts of kidnapping in the deaths of Joann Katrinak, 26, and her 3 1/2-month-old son, Alex.Pennsylvania police, with the help of authorities in North Carolina, arrested Ms. Rorrer, 33, in Linwood, N.C. She was jailed without bail pending a court hearing Wednesday to face extradition.Mrs. She had been beaten and shot in the face. "Investigators allege Rorrer "in a fit of irrational rage" drove from Linwood, N.C., to Catasauqua, to abduct Joann Katrinak and her baby, Alex, at gunpoint. . There are more questions than answers in this case. Irelands husband buried it in the yard because he didnt feel comfortable with a firearm inside, she said. Thats my life.. It certainly tugged at our heartstrings, you know, it brought a tear to my eye. If there were awards for distorted reporting, the Morning Call out of Lehigh, PA would win high honors. Nothing Ive read by her supporters goes to the heart of the case against her unless perjury. Someone with a life sentence has nothing to lose throwing any spanner in the works that might, as they see it, cast doubt even if the spanner has the opposite effect! I do rejoice when I learn of someone particularly on death row exonerated. Patricia demonstrated a habit of making almost daily, long-distance phone calls from her home in North Carolina. (McIntyre said that Egan ignored Traupman because he was a nut who said that the man he saw arguing with the woman in a car was Hispanic but wearing a fake mustache and a toupee. Viz Andrews newer wife, he likely, to me, believed absolutely that she could not possibly be the perp, as endorsed by the fact that he married her. It was, and is, perfectly reasonable to convict without forensic evidence. I also take into consideration the fact that Rorrer simply doesnt speak that way. Her hair color in the picture matched hairs found at two of the crime scenes. "She had a reputation of, `You don't mess with me,'" Fonda Kay Eggers told a reporter for the Dispatch of Lexington, N.C. Eggers, a Humane Society investigator and distant relative of Rorrer, filed animal cruelty charges against Rorrer in 1994 after checking on Rorrer's horses. She got 12 months of probation for shoplifting at a Walmart in Lexington, North Carolina. It all gave jurors a lot to think about but only for six hours. They allege that she drove the victims to Heidelberg Township woods where they were murdered and abandoned. Their bodies were found in April 1995.Pfeiffer earlier told jurors that the prosecution's theory on a motive makes no sense.Rorrer, who is charged with kidnapping and homicide, will continue testifying today and will be cross-examined by McIntyre, who has grilled some defense witnesses, firing question after question.Before Rorrer began testifying, she stood in front of the judge's bench as Pfeiffer put on the record that Rorrer was advised of her constitutional right not to testify and was told that if she chose to exercise it, it couldn't be used against her. Patricias professional life included short-lived gigs as a Century 21 real estate agent and an Oldsmobile salesperson. An autopsy revealed Joann Katrinak was shot in the face with a small-caliber handgun and suffered 19 blows to the head. The Free Patricia Rorrer page responds to comments from supporters (How is this even possible that this woman is still in jail?!? Court papers allege he asked the customer for sex in return for the drug. At 6 a.m. on June 24, 1997, police arrested Patricia at her modest house in Linwood, North Carolina, and took her back to Pennsylvania. Here in UK juries are now being instructed to be satisfied that they are sure of guilt, with surety not being as high as certainty. Friends and family began looking for Joann and Alex. Dial-a-problem. Cop defends accused. And the alibi she used at trial -- that she was in a country music club with her fiance and his friend -- isn't credible, according to the prosecution. And if nothing more, it certainly galvanized the law enforcement community and got us moving in the right direction. Seven leaky buckets hold no more water than one: that several stratums of the evidence against her MIGHT be interpreted otherwise doesnt add up to sufficient doubt (that works the other way too, of course!) So begins a case that features a m. As for Joanns parents, her father died a year after the murder. At first, a broad-daylight abduction of a mother and her infant seemed unlikely. In March of 1998, a jury returned two guilty verdicts against Patricia Rorrer for murder, and two more for kidnapping. She produced phone records showing a call to Andrew Katrinak two weeks before the abduction not three days before it to tell him she had won a national horse competition in Oklahoma. Autopsy 6: Secrets of the Dead: Directed by Arthur Ginsberg. Christopher Coble and Sgt. They moved into her house in Salisbury County, staying together for about two years. And, I was quite angry with the police, that they accused Andy. Convicting Factors: forensic fabrication, hidden evidence, media hysteria.Convicting Reasons: protect the real murderer. But when did he find the evidence of the break-in? Patricia defaulted on her mortgage and then returned to North Carolina, where she eventually moved in with a boyfriend named Brian Ward. Her name is not on a Dec. 15, 1994, sign-in sheet for the private club..Police never found the murder weapon, a .22-caliber gun.."Where's the gun, Patty?" ), The Wrong Man investigators Ira Todd and Joe Kennedy have some theories of their own. The forensic reports indicate that there was a significant amount of blood and tissue clinging to this fingernail, which would have been an excellent source of nuclear DNA testing. As soon as she steppedinto Your Kidz &Mine, Fairley, who had a passion for vampire lore, reportedly recognized her ashaving theidealizedlook of the womenportrayed in vampire-relatedliterature. ", "An unusual feature about the gun, he [Rorrers ex-boyfriend] stated was the fact that you fire one shot out of the gun, and the gun would jam. She Faces Prosecutor Tomorrow.March 03, 1998by DEBBIE GARLICKIThe Morning Call, Double-murder trial defendant Patricia Rorrer took the witness stand in her own defense Monday, giving jurors a Cliff Notes version of her life up until the time a Catasauqua woman and her baby disappeared in 1994.Rorrer, 34, testified in a soft, slow voice for an hour and 20 minutes before court adjourned on the 14th day of her Lehigh County trial.The North Carolina woman accused of killing the wife and 15-week-old baby of her former boyfriend, Andrew Katrinak, calmly answered questions from one of her lawyers, James Pfeiffer.Rorrer, who had a five-year relationship with Katrinak that ended in 1989, testified that she and Katrinak remained good friends after the breakup, writing letters occasionally and calling each other.She said she was happy for Katrinak when he told her in a telephone call in March or April 1994 that he had gotten married and a baby was on the way. And she would just call out of the blue., According to the Free Patricia Rorrer page on Facebook:I called him to let him know that I was going to the USA finals for a horse show. While very far from conclusive, she also made some startling remarks at arrest, such as her not killing Alex (and only Alex). The jury spared Rorrer from the death penalty, but condemned her to life behind bars. Patricia Rorrer's home phone record did not show her call to the Katrinak house three days prior to the kidnapping because she'd already made the trip to Pennsylvania to see Andrew. As for an update on Lisas widower, Jimmy Manderach, it appears he still lives in the same part of Pennsylvania. Everything about that statement rings false, but it sure worked out for Officer Suzanne Pearson; she was promoted to Sergeant after sharing this bombshell confession with her superiors. It'd be plausible to reason some deniability in Patricia's role if there weren't so many indicators of her involvement. Enter memorial Id . Another witness, Walter Traupman, who never testified, had told state troopers that on the day of Joanns disappearance, he saw a couple who looked like Joann and Andrew arguing about the paternity of a baby. Search is on. Shouldn't Andrew have mentioned this suspicious, out-of-the-blue phone call from his ex-girlfriend sooner? That barn is about two miles from where the bodies were discovered along a trail in the woods, where a prosecution witness said she rode horses with Rorrer. She is petitioning for DNA testing on the nail fragment that was found on the victims body. Unicorns and getting really buff can be equally fantastical. On Oct. 5, 2007, the District Attorney of Lehigh County agreed to allow the testing of the hair found in the Toyota at Orchid Cellmark Laboratories in Dallas. We found out that he was a real pervert, all kinds of sexual devices and various perverted stuff, District Attorney Bruce L. Castor Jr. told Forensic Files rather triumphantly. Also, Rorrer was interviewed by police within a week of Joann and Alex going missing. Patricia knew her gun tended to jam, but she used it anyway. Thanks for writing in its the first Ive heard about another mother and child murdered in that area. The murders initially made James,calledJimmy, a suspect because, as we know from countless otherForensic Files, the spouse did it. No show. There were no love letters, cards, gifts, or any other indication that she still had a romantic interest in him. What IS reasonable doubt and what is it to be at or beyond that threshold? . For one thing, her mother never asked Sandra Ireland to hide the gun, and she retrieved it on the way home the next day she worked as a bus driver and couldnt take it with her to school. Despite the troubling evidence from Joann's car, detectives considered whether or not Joann had taken baby Alex and simply left. Ex-boyfriend Walter Blalock said that Patricia wanted him to be more like Andrew. Last weeks post told of two nice people with the bad luck to cross paths with a personable married couple who were thrill killers looking for prey. She and Andrew Katrinak shared a house in Salisbury Township in the mid-1980s, when he was a self-employed contractor and she was a real-estate agent. Victims Joann Katrinak Alex Katrinak, 3 months Find-A-Grave: Joann M. Katrinak Woman Held In Catasauqua Killings Man Recalls Day His Wife, Baby Vanished As Katrinak Double-murder Trial Opens . In fact, she had moved 500 miles away and was in a new relationship herself. Daughter of George & Margaret Panik and wife of Andrew Katrinak. Lets consider these statements Rorrer is alleged to have made in the presence of a police officer. Patricia Rorrer was a cold woman. "At one point, Katrinak stayed in North Carolina for several weeks to do a roofing job, and it looked as though they might get back together, Rorrer said. And their phone line had been cut someone had not wanted the Katrinaks to be able to call for help. Katrinak, Andrew J.Andrew Joseph Katrinak, 88, of Bethlehem, died on Wednesday, January 21, 2015 at Blough Healthcare Center in Bethlehem. And who'd be heartless enough to kill an infant as well? Rorrer was an easy target due to all the circumstantial evidence. Even though Joanne was supposed to take her mother-in-law for Christmas shopping, she never showed up. I dont have any reason to believe that Fairley might have been in the Catasauqua area in December of 1994. She was also accused of breaking into barns, stealing horses, and underfeeding the ones she owned. Frank D. Anderson-Josephine Kiely bert H. Dabbs William M. Yale Andrew Katrinak. Im not trying to throw shade at either one of them, but I do find it odd that when police asked Andy if he knew of anyone who lived in the area, he thought of an ex-girlfriend he hadnt been with in over 5 years, but failed to mention his friend, with whom he had much more frequent contact. One she was at a tanning salon. Catasauqua is only about 54 minutes away from where Fairley lived in Gulph Mills. And the fact that Patricia called Andrew even after he married someone else didnt mean she was still carrying a torch for him, according to one of her friends. The autopsy indicated that Joann fought hard for her life. When police traveled to North Carolina to interview Patricia about the murders of Joann and Alex, she said that on the day of the homicides, she had visited a feed store, a tanning salon, and a country music club. But if Rorrer was a genuine suspect, it's likely investigators would have attempted the mitochondrial DNA match on the hair anyway. I see not significance in the point you make here. It is currently unknown if the Patricia's case was one of these. Then, in what has to be everyones favorite part of the episode, police noticed Fairley was wearing beige makeup on his face when they brought him in for questioning. Rorrer said she was almost 500 miles away in North Carolina on the day of the disappearance. Weak wages. ""She was cool," Hege said of the 33-year-old mother, about the same time Rorrer was being arraigned. No activity on her bank account or credit cards took place after the day she went missing, so investigators dismissed the theory that she took her child and bolted. Patricia also pointed out that when author Tammy Mal started her research and speaking to me, she was not an advocate at all but she reversed and ended up advocating for Patricias innocence. But thats just some of the ammo on Team Patricias battleship. One on one? The couple had known each other since Lisa was 10 and Jimmy was friends with her brothers. http://articles.mcall.com/1998-03-06/news/3183202_1_mcintyre-defense-lawyer-killed/2, Unreliable Chain: Questionable Hair Evidence Condemns Woman to Prison, FBI admits flaws in hair analysis over decades - The Washington Post. . AWoman And Her Baby Walkinto a Trap Or did they? During Patricias hours-long turn in the witness chair, Michael McIntyre grilled her relentlessly. Still, Shopping Spree,theForensic Filesepisode about the murders, left me curious about an epilogue for Fairley. Mrs. Katrinak had been shot in the face and beaten, and Alex is believed to have died from suffocation and exposure.Ms. Along with Rorrer, Joann Katrinaks ex-husband, Michael Jack, and Andrew Katrinak were suspects for a time. They theorize that Andrew Katrinak framed Patricia and that the hostile phone call between Patricia and Joann actually took place not on Dec. 12 as Andrew said but rather on Dec. 7. Three days before she vanished, Mrs. Katrinak had angrily told Ms. Rorrer to stop calling her husband. Until WCJN has thought that the hair was planted but the FBI has just released a report detailing unscientific and fraudulent analysis of hair samples in criminal cases. But they didn't and, according to her, later went their separate ways.Rorrer said she called Katrinak in spring 1994 and learned that he was married and was going to be a father. But if Andrew wanted to find his wife and his son, why on Earth did he wait until 10:30pm before notifying authorities? At the trial, prosecutor Michael McIntyre alleged that Patricia remained obsessed with Andrew Katrinak long after their breakup despite testimony that shed had many boyfriends and live-in lovers to occupy her bandwidth. They produced a photo of her with dyed hair, implicating her because the hairs found in the Toyota were dyed. Jury Now Must Decide Whose Argument Does.March 06, 1998by DEBBIE GARLICKI, The Morning Call. Try sending something like that to a lab for paternity testing and see how far you get. Patricia supposedly still cared for Andrew Katrinak, but murdering his son contradicts this notion. According to legal documents reported on in the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1998, the Fairleys contended: While the circumstances were indeed horrific, the deaths . His wife's vehicle was discovered in a parking lot 100 yards away from their house.The bodies of the mother and son were found in April 1995 in a rural, wooded area 15 miles from home. I was like OK, maybe she was tired, you know with a new baby. The prosecution painted apicture of a woman so angry after herformer boyfriends wife hung up thephone on her that she drove to Pennsylvania,forced Joann Katrinak and herbaby at gunpoint into the car, then tookthem outside of town and killed them. She walked into a kids clothing store where a young man working the cash register just happened to be a fantasy-gamesuperfan seething with thoughts of criminal perversion. Memorials. The prosecution alleged that Patricia called the Katrinaks house from a pay phone in Pennsylvania. North America. It seems Patricia's own daughter and baby Alex Katrinak were very close in age. Andrew's involvement in the latter theory was dismissed when his alibi checked out. She wasn't aware she had left behind small clues in the woods and in the car, which police believe was used to take the victims to the woods, the prosecutor said..Burke highlighted the prosecution's failure to test another hair -- one found in Joann Katrinak's hand. When their bodies were found four months later, police sought the clues to find their killer. Curiously, he immediately implicated Rorrer, his ex-girlfriend, even though they hadnt spoken in months and she was living in North Carolina.
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