A jury will resume deliberations Thursday morning in the trial of a Greensburg man charged with the murder of a Vandergrift woman whose charred remains were found at a secluded Derry Township campsite four years ago. Jurors deliberated about four hours Wednesday and did not reach a verdict in the
Investigators found what appeared to be part of a human scalp, bone fragments, charred jewelry and clothing in a pile of ash at a secluded Derry Township camp site identified by a witness as the location where Ronny Cable was killed and her remains burned in February 2017, police detectives
An Export man told a Westmoreland County jury Wednesday that, just a day after Ronny Cable said she had feelings for him, he watched another man beat her over the head with a hammer and choke her to death. He said he then spent the next 12 hours helping to
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Jodie Graft had a simple message to the woman she still blames for her daughter’s overdose death last year in Greensburg.
Graft, sobbing, peered over a Plexiglass shield, looked directly at Mary Crimboli-Baker as she stood next her defense lawyer in a Westmoreland County courtroom, and said she wished it was her and not her daughter who did not survive their use of fentanyl-laced heroin last February.
“Why did she wake up and not my daughter? It’s just not fair,” Graft said during a guilty plea and sentencing hearing before Judge Christopher Feliciani. “You get to go home and see your daughter. You better tell her you love her before something happens to you.”
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A Greensburg woman remains in jail as she mulls whether to accept a plea deal that would result in the dismissal of a felony charge of drug delivery resulting in death in connection the fatal overdose last February of her wife.
Westmoreland County Common Pleas Court Judge Christopher Feliciani on Friday rejected a defense request to reinstate bond for Mary Crimboli-Baker, 34, who is awaiting trial on six criminal counts associated with the Feb. 11, 2020, overdose death of 32-year-old Justine Baker in the couple’s Greensburg apartment.