on a thursday night in june 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
and discovered some unique marks on the side of the rods created as they were manufactured. individual characteristics that are imparted from the tool or die on the work piece are not the same in hour one of that die s life as they would be in hour 8, 12, or hour 16. these marks indicated to mr. tobin that the rods found in kopenheffer s home and those found with the ransom notes were all made on the same day at virtually the same time. something on the order of minutes. this was one of the best associations i ve ever had with regard to the fabrication characteristics. police also found glaser brand ammunition in kopenheffer s home. the same type used in sally weiner s murder. i think that would be extremely unusual to have glaser round ammunition in a person s
attached to a metal rod with a crepe paper flag. the rods we recognized as being rods that were used in filing cabinets, older filing cabinets that slid through the drawers of the filing cabinets from the front to the rear. but the sign wasn t easy to see, which is why harry missed it the night before. the second ransom note told harry to proceed to another location several miles from there where the fbi found a third note telling harry to proceed to an abandoned church three miles away. that s where the trail stopped. you could observe harry traveling through the countryside there. he could also watch for surveillance units and police who might be following him. 18 hours had passed from the time sally was kidnaped. with no further word from the
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 await further instructions. harry immediately contacted the local police and fbi. they told him to drive to the back of the police station and pick up a law enforcement