A New York woman has been charged with killing a 92-year-old World War I veteran during a break-in at his Buffalo home more than three decades ago.
Erie County prosecutors announced Wednesday that fingerprints and DNA evidence linked Saundra Adams to the slaying of Edmund Schreiber, who was found strangled with his own neckties in June 1983.
Adams was 17 at the time of the killing. Prosecutors say an unknown accomplice was also involved.
Adams, who’s now 50, was arrested Tuesday. She has pleaded not guilty and is in jail pending a bail hearing.
Attorney Susan Karalus represented Adams at her arraignment. She says Adams lives in the same Buffalo neighborhood where Schreiber was slain.
Authorities say Schreiber was wounded during WWI and had been awarded a Purple Heart medal.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
If she is found guilty she and her accomplices should all be hanged until dead. The family members of the Vet should draw straws to see who gets the honor of pulling the lever that drops them. Perhaps a Televised Hanging, which would rake in millions due to the public’s insatiable appetite for violence, would be better in order to show thieves and murderers what may be in store for them.
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What a shame, a War hero comes home after being wounded ,only to be strangled by a fellow citizen,and a young woman at that. Now , that you got caught, suffer the consequences,….Death by “Hanging”. Still in the Army’s book. I’m for it.
If the sentence takes the now customary politically correct form she will probably be given some form of community service – unfortunately they will usually find some mitigating circumstance to ensure the perpetrator isn’t made to answer fully for their crime – then they wonder why crimes of violence is on the increase.