of 1988, sally weiner 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 on to her husband, as it was supposed to be a surprise, and that she was to meet someone the following day to go over the plans for this this celebration. the next day, harry weiner got a telephone call at the bank. this is sally we know it s a tape recorded
a background check revealed some startling information about david kopenheffer. he had been turned down for a $25,000 business loan by harry weiner less than a year earlier. kopenheffer was now the prime suspect in the kidnapping and murder of harry weiner s wife sally. so the fbi put david kopenheffer under surveillance and watched as he took some trash out to the dumpster behind his store. when the fbi seized it, they found some suspicious items. they found a used roll of crepe paper, the same make and color as the paper found with the ransom notes.
Transcripts for CNN Forensic Files 20140706 06:51:15 archive.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archive.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
36-year-old sally weiner, the wife of a bank vice president, had been kidnapped and held for ransom. 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
he then forced her to record the message to her husband telling him she had been kidnapped. the forensic evidence shows that kopenheffer killed sally within a few hours after he abducted her. then dumped her body on the farm outside of town. he returned to his store, placed the call to harry at the bank and played sally s tape recording. kopenheffer was sure harry would follow the instructions to the letter. the computer evidence shows that he planned to kill harry at the abandoned church when he dropped off the ransom money. harry was the one he was mad at for having turned him down on