The Death of Susan Reinert
I belong to several groups on Facebook relating to true crime. In one of them the book "Echoes in the Darkness" by Joseph Wambaugh was recommended. I am in the process of reading it now. One of the most surprising things to me was that I had never heard of this case what so ever. There was even a mini-series made in 1987, back when mini-series' were big, and yet I've never seen that either. I wonder if one of the reasons I have not is that in 1992 everything in the book came into question. On Monday, June 25, 1979 the body of Susan Reinert was found in the hatchback of her car in a hotel parking lot in Harrisburg Pennsylvania. It appeared from all the bruises that she had been beaten prior to her death. Her body was wrapped in chains. An autopsy revealed that she had been dosed with a massive amount of morphine. Aside from determining who had done this to Susan, the bigger question became where were her children, Karen aged 11 and Michae...