Patricia Rorrer
Going into this case doing the research I thought this was a pretty cut and dry case to blog about. As soon as I started researching I learned that may not be the case and although the crime was committed in 1994 and Patricia Rorrer was convicted in 1998, as late as 2015 her lawyer were continuing to argue about possibly tampered evidence. So, I dug a little deeper than I had really planned to in the beginning and found myself with more questions than answers. On December 15, 1994 Joanne Katrinak and her three month old son Alex, of Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania, were supposed to meet her mother in law to go shopping for the day. She never showed and never answered the phone. When Joanne's husband, Andrew, returned home they were not there either. He found the basement door open and removed from the hinges and the phone lines cut. He called the police. Joanne's car would be found in a parking lot near the couple's home but neither Joanne or Alex ...