gauge shotgun. when harry arrived at the railroad bridge, no one was there. so he waited with the sharp shooter in the backseat. and with fbi agents hiding in the woods nearby. you just sit there very quietly. you don t move and you listen. and you listen for any kind of footstep, any kind of noise, hoping that he might contact us. but thinking that he s probably within 100 yards of us watching with a rifle. after waiting for several hours, the fbi agents told harry to go home and await further word there. the next day at sunrise, the fbi performed a grid search of the drop site. and neither railroad underpass they found a second ransom note attached to a metal rod with a crepe paper flag. the rods we recognized as
i just i remember being in shock. i felt i felt guilty and helpless. she was executed. the killer used a glaser type bullet that exploded on impact, making it impossible to determine the weapon s caliber. next, the fbi analyzed the ransom notes. all were typed with a computer word processer program, and all were printed with the same font. on one note the word exactly was misspelled. investigators got their first real break from the case from a police officer who was walking in the shopping center near harry winer s bank. he noticed a sign in a bookstore window listing the sunday newspapers the store carried. in particular he noticed the unusual border.
of 1988, sally winer got a telephone call at her corry, pennsylvania home. it was her congressman s office calling to say that her husband harry, who was a vice president of the local bank and a civic leader, had just been chosen as corry s man of the year. the caller instructed her not to let onto her husband as it was supposed to be a surprise. she was to meet someone the following day to go over the plans for this celebration. the next day, harry winer got a telephone call at the bank. we know it s a tape recorded call because there s no interaction between harry and sally. he s trying to talk to her and she s not responding.
investigators learned that neither sally nor her husband harry had any known enemies. you can count on just a couple fingers the number of cases that you see where a bank employee s family member is abducted in exchange for financial gain. it just is not a common crime. police found sally s car near a church not far from her husband s bank. her car is left in that parking lot. the windows are up and the doors are locked. so there s no sign of a struggle in any respect. all day saturday, which was the day after the kidnapping, there was no further communication from the kidnappers. but on sunday, sally s body was discovered by a farmer working his land a few miles outside of town. she had been killed by a single gunshot wound to the head.