david kopenheffer was tried and eventually convicted of first-degree murder, and was sentenced to life in prison. david kopenheffer is the master manipulator. it s an intellectual game, an intellectual challenge to see how far he can push the system and what he can get away with. i think if he were out he d kill again. he d put a contract on me and harry weiner while the trial was going on because we were key witnesses against him. i don t think that he would stop at anything. despite the overwhelming amount of forensic evidence against him, kopenheffer continues to maintain his innocence. that s the arrogance of the man, that despite overwhelming evidence as to his guilt and many defendants do this, they still, still refuse to accept responsibility for the crimes that they ve committed.
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. she just continues to talk. she had to read that if her husband didn t come up with the money, why, they d cut off her hands. she told him in detail that she was being held and these people were dangerous and they were going to kill her if he didn t provide the money. sally told him there was a bag under his car with instructions that he was to follow exactly or she would be killed. the ransom note told harry to fill the gym bag with all of the money from his bank s vault and drive to a deserted bridge ten miles outside of town to await further instructions. harry immediately contacted the local police and fbi. they told him to drive to the
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 discovered by a farmer working his land a few miles outside of
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town. she had been killed by a single gunshot wound to the head. 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 processing program, and all were printed with the same font. on one note the word exactly was misspelled. investigators got their first real break in the case from a police officer who was walking in the shopping center near harry weiner s bank. he noticed a sign in a bookstore