Hughes turned the evidence over to Costopoulos on March 17, believing it showed a police cover-up in the case. Hughes said he stumbled across the box in material he collected after being hired by Holtz to clean out the attic and basement of the trooper’s Lower Paxton Twp. The bodies of the two children, ages 11 and 10, were never found. Bradfield Jr., Reinert ‘s fellow English teacher at Upper Merion, were convicted of killing Reinert and her two children in 1979 to collect $750,000 in insurance in a case that evolved into a national best seller and a highly rated CBS miniseries. Walker to put all evidence from the case in the care of a court-appointed custodian.Ĭostopoulos also asked that the judge order the prosecution to explain why the evidence was not turned over to the defense, and to allow him to analyze some evidence. Costopoulos, the Lemoyne lawyer representing Smith, a former Upper Merion High School principal who was sentenced to death for Reinert’s murder, filed papers in Dauphin County Court late Friday asking Senior Judge Robert L. Smith.Ī duplicate of the comb that connected Smith to the crime scene, investigative notes that contradict prosecution testimony and a letter from an author offering an investigator $50,000 before arrests were even made were found in a box that Trooper Jack Holtz was apparently discarding.Īll evidence from Smith ‘s trial is supposedly sealed by court order and stored by the state attorney general’s office. Junkman’s find could raise questions about murders that riveted nationĪ box removed from the attic of the lead investigator in the famed Susan Reinert murder case has yielded evidence that seems to raise serious questions about the case and could clear convicted killer Jay C.
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