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Robert Flor Pennsylvania Death Row

Robert Flor was sentenced to death by the State of Pennsylvania for the murder of a police officer. According to court documents Robert Flor was brought to a hospital following an arrest for a DUI. Robert Flor would get hold of a gun where he would shoot two police officers and a hospital employee. One of the police officers would die from his injuries. Robert Flor would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

Robert Flor 2022 Information

Parole Number: 1254O
Age: 54
Date of Birth: 04/14/1967
Race/Ethnicity: WHITE
Height: 5′ 06″
Gender: MALE
Citizenship: USA
Complexion: LIGHT
Current Location: PHOENIX

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A cop killer again had his death sentence upheld.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the sentence for Robert Anthony Flor, 54, formerly of Bedminster Township, who shot Newtown Borough police officer Brian S. Gregg dead in 2005 while at St. Mary Medical Center in Middletown Township.

Gregg was born in Bristol and raised in Levittown.

Flor has tried to lessen his sentence numerous times since pleading guilty to the murder in 2006. His argument has been that he has intellectual disabilities and a U.S. Supreme Court decision ruled that intellectually disabled people are ineligible for the death penalty. He also has argued there was prosecutorial misconduct and his counsel was not effective.

Three mental health experts put on the record by Flor concluded that he suffered from one or more mental illnesses, including major depressive disorder and personality change due to brain damage.

Prosecutors argued that Flor’s complaints were meritless.

The majority of state supreme court justices ruled against Flor’s arguments Wednesday and said they were baseless.

Flor, a Falls Township native, took the gun from Newtown Borough patrolman James Warunek after being taken to the Middletown Township hospital following his arrest for DUI and punching his girlfriend. Gregg, Warunek and hospital employee Joseph Epp were all shot in the 2005 violence. A large manhunt ensued after and Flor was found hiding in a car on the hospital grounds.

“Robert Flor was convicted of killing police officer Brian Gregg, shooting police Officer James Warunek, and shooting hospital employee Joseph Epp in 2006 and has been trying to get off of death row ever since,” District Attorney Matt Weintraub said in a statement. “All he offers are excuses. We will meet him at every attempt he makes to evade his death sentence, which he earned.”

Supreme Court Upholds Cop Killer’s Death Sentence

Anthony Fiebiger Pennsylvania Death Row

Anthony Fiebiger was sentenced to death by the State of Pennsylvania for the murders of two women. According to court documents Anthony Fiebiger was under investigation of the murder of Norma Parker when police realized he was also responsible for the murder of Marcia Jones. Anthony Fiebiger was always a suspect in the Norma Parker murder however he could not be tied to the disappearance. Eventually police would have enough evidence and Anthony Fiebiger would be charged with body murder and would be convicted an sentenced to death.

Anthony Fiebiger 2022 Information

Parole Number: 7480V
Age: 58
Date of Birth: 07/14/1963
Race/Ethnicity: WHITE
Height: 5′ 10″
Gender: MALE
Citizenship: USA
Complexion: LIGHT
Current Location: PHOENIX

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Anthony Fiebiger was born on July 14, 1963. In 1998, when he was about 35 years old, he was arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct. After his arrest, he was stated to be mumbling about a murder that had been bothering him and, upon questioning, confessed to two brutal murders. The first one was regarding the mysterious disappearance of Norma Parker in 1989.

Norma was Anthony’s girlfriend at the time, and they had been living together in Carnegie, Pennsylvania. She was last seen on February 27, 1989, and was reported missing by her sister about a week later. Anthony was long considered a suspect in that case, but he wasn’t charged. He confessed to the police that Norma had woken him up, which made him angry, and he choked her with his hands, a towel, and even a nunchuck. He then put her body in a 55-gallon industrial drum and buried her in a park before coming back to pour battery acid over the grave. In 1998, he led the authorities to her remains.

The other murder that he confessed to was the long-unsolved case of Marcia Jones. He told the police that in 1982, Anthony and his friend, Joseph Morton, were looking for a woman to rape. They came across the 16-year-old Marcia and coaxed her into a park by offering her marijuana. The two of them then proceeded to rape, beat, sodomize and strangle her. They also stabbed her multiple times in the neck and consequently buried her in a shallow grave.

Her body was found on May 22, 1982. In his confession, Anthony had also stated that he had always fantasized about killing people, especially children. He was convicted of murdering Marcia and later pleaded guilty to Norma’s murder. Joseph Morton, the accomplice in the 1982 killing, was also found guilty of rape and murder.

Anthony Fiebiger was found guilty for the murder of Marcia Jones and pleaded guilty for the murder of Norma Parker. He was sentenced to death in both cases. In 2001, he waived his right to appeal and right to legal representation and asked to be executed. But he is still on death row. As per prison records, he is incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution – Phoenix in Collegeville, Pennsylvania

Where Are Tony Fiebiger and Sharon Morris Now?

Leroy Fears Pennsylvania Death Row

Leroy Fears was sentenced to death by the State of Pennsylvania for the sexual assault and murder of a twelve year old boy. According to court documents Leroy Fears would abduct the twelve year old boy who was later sexually molested and murdered. Leroy Fears would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

Leroy Fears 2022 Information

Parole Number: CQ7760
Age: 59
Date of Birth: 05/03/1962
Race/Ethnicity: BLACK
Height: 5′ 06″
Gender: MALE
Citizenship: USA
Complexion: DARK
Current Location: PHOENIX

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The record, developed at the suppression hearing, guilty plea proceeding and sentencing hearing, reveals that, on June 18, 1994, twelve-year-old Shawn Hagan and thirteen-year-old James Naughton met with other teenagers and Leroy Fears, age thirty-two, at a fishing hole on the Monongahela River. The day before, Appellant had paid Naughton to bring a bottle of his parent’s vodka from his home. Leroy Fears and the boys spent the day drinking, swimming and fishing. Appellant, Hagan and Naughton eventually separated from the other boys and continued to fish farther down the river. When it began to get dark, Naughton left the area and Hagan continued to swim.

Upon coming to shore, Hagan removed his outer shorts to hang dry. Hagan sat down next to Leroy Fearsat which time Hagan’s arm brushed Appellant. Appellant became aroused, told Hagan to stand, pulled Hagan’s boxer shorts down, and performed oral sex on him. Appellant then asked Hagan what he was going to do about the incident. Hagan responded that he was going to tell his parents that Leroy Fears had kidnapped him. Appellant then pushed Hagan to the ground, sat on top of him, and choked him for approximately five minutes. When Hagan stopped moving, Appellant removed his hands from Hagan’s throat. Once Hagan started to revive and cough, Appellant choked him a second time for approximately ten minutes until Appellant was satisfied that Hagan was no longer alive. Appellant then rolled Hagan on to his stomach. Appellant again became aroused and performed anal sex on him. Appellant then placed Hagan’s body in the river and kept watch for approximately twenty minutes. Leroy Fears searched the riverbank, found a tire rim and tied it to Hagan’s neck. He then swam Hagan’s body out into the river where it sank below the surface.

On June 19, 1994, the City of Pittsburgh Police began an investigation into the disappearance of Hagan. They encountered Appellant while searching the area where Hagan had last been seen. Appellant offered to help the police and advised them that he was the last person to have seen Hagan. Appellant also told the officers that he was concerned that neighbors may suspect him in the disappearance because of a prior sexual contact he had with a young boy. After spending several hours with detectives, Appellant voluntarily agreed to accompany them to the Pittsburgh Police Detective Bureau.

In his initial statement, Leroy Fears discussed fishing with Hagan, but did not admit to any criminal activity. As this was occurring, the police learned from another source that Leroy Fears had paid Naughton to provide him with alcohol. Appellant overheard other officers discussing this information, and blurted out that he had given the boy money for vodka, but denied making the boys drink it. The detectives advised Appellant of his rights pursuant to Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 (1966), and presented him with a pre-interrogation warning form. Appellant responded that he was willing to provide the police with a written statement, but that he would no longer speak with the officers. All questioning ceased. The police charged Appellant with corruption of minors and incarcerated him on that charge.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/pa-supreme-court/1452999.html

John Eichinger Pennsylvania Death Row

John Eichinger was sentenced to death by the State of Pennsylvania for four murders. According to court documents John Eichinger would stab to death three people in 1999 including that of a three year old child and would murder another woman in 2005. John Eichinger would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

John Eichinger 2022 Information

Parole Number: 475EI
Age: 49
Date of Birth: 02/18/1972
Race/Ethnicity: WHITE
Height: 6′ 00″
Gender: MALE
Citizenship: USA
Complexion: LIGHT
Current Location: PHOENIX

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Convicted serial killer John C. Eichinger, who murdered four people including a 3-year-old girl, is continuing his efforts to get off death row.

Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce L. Castor Jr., who personally prosecuted the former supermarket employee from New Jersey, maintained that the 35-year-old Eichinger should die for his crimes.

‘If anyone deserves, legally and morally, to die it is John Eichinger,’ said Castor Wednesday. ‘This case, with its multiplicity of murders, is the perfect case for the death penalty. He is the single most prolific killer in Montgomery County’s history.’

With the state Superior Court and state Supreme Court refusing his requests to overturn his death sentence, Eichinger has turned to the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his petition, alleging that Judge William R. Carpenter erred in his sentencing instructions to the jury that subsequently returned with three death penalty verdicts.

Eichinger’s allegation that he did not receive a fair sentence is nonsense, according to county Assistant District Attorney Patricia E. Coonahan, who wrote and this week filed the county’s response to Eichinger’s petition to the country’s highest court.

‘The jury instructions that were given in this case are proper and sound,’ said Coonahan.

Eichinger was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to die by lethal injection for the Good Friday stabbing deaths of 27-year-old Heather Greaves, her 23-year-old sister Lisa Greaves and Heather’s 3-year-old daughter Avery Johnson, at the Greaves family residence on Kingwood Road in King of Prussia in 2005.

He also was convicted of first-degree murder for the stabbing death of Jennifer Still in her Bridgeport apartment on July 6, 1999. He received the life sentence for that first murder.

Carpenter found Eichinger guilty of first-degree murder in all four cases following a brief trial in October 2005 in which Eichinger offered no defense.

The details of the murders were provided by statements that Eichinger gave authorities, letters he wrote from prison to one of his three brothers and a journal he kept.

Eichinger told authorities he had killed both Heather Greaves and Still because they spurned his romantic advances. Lisa Greaves and Avery Johnson had to die because they witnessed the slaying of Heather Greaves, Eichinger confessed.

Prosecutors did not seek the death penalty for Still’s murder because there were no aggravating factors in that case. As a result, Eichinger received a mandatory life sentence without parole for that killing.

However, with Castor seeking the death penalty for the other three murders, John Eichinger opted to have a jury decide his fate. The jury, deliberating almost six hours following a three-day sentencing hearing in November 2005, returned with a verdict of death for each of the three murders.

In his appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, Eichinger claimed the judge made a mistake by not specifically instructing jurors that there is a ‘presumption of life imprisonment’ in the case unless the district attorney proves beyond a reasonable doubt that the sentence should be death.

‘The death penalty statute in Pennsylvania has been found constitutional in the past by the U.S. Supreme Court and we believe there is no constitutional requirement that explicit jury instructions be given on the presumption of life,’ said Assistant District Attorney Coonahan.

Serial killer trying to get off death row

Troy Drumheller Pennsylvania Death Row

Troy Drumheller was sentenced to death by the State of Pennsylvania for the murder of Carol Huttenstine. According to court documents Troy Drumheller had a history of abusing Carol Huttenstine his on and off again girlfriend who would be fatally stabbed to death by Drumheller in 1999 following her getting a protection order against Troy. Troy Drumheller would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

Troy Drumheller 2022 Information

Parole Number: 9759P
Age: 60
Date of Birth: 09/22/1961
Race/Ethnicity: WHITE
Height: 6′ 01″
Gender: MALE
Citizenship: USA
Complexion: LIGHT
Current Location: PHOENIX

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The evidence suggests that Troy Drumheller and his sometimes girlfriend, Carol Huttenstine (Huttenstine), had a violent and abusive relationship. In fact, Huttenstine filed four separate protection from abuse (PFA) petitions against Troy Drumheller , one in July of 1996, one in February of 1997, one in December of 1997, and the most recent one on January 15, 1999. Each of the PFA petitions contained recitations of acts of abuse perpetrated by Drumheller against Huttenstine, including numerous incidents where Drumheller punched Huttenstine in the face, pulled her hair, kicked her, threw her to the ground, choked her, and threatened to kill her. Following the filing of each petition, the court entered a restraining order against Troy Drumheller . With the last PFA petition, the court issued a temporary restraining order against Troy Drumheller on January 15, 1999, and issued a final restraining order on February 8, 1999, that Huttenstine never requested be discontinued, altered, or modified.

This final PFA order was in effect at the time of Huttenstine’s death on April 24, 1999. The court served Troy Drumheller with notice of the January 15, 1999 PFA order restricting his contact with Huttenstine. However, on at least four occasions, Huttenstine reported to police that Drumheller had violated the terms of that order by contacting her. (Notes of Testimony (N.T.), dated December 6, 2000, Volume 4, at 152-153). In fact, on March 2, 1999, approximately six weeks before her death, Huttenstine reported to police that Troy Drumheller had appeared at her home and had grabbed her. Id. at 144-148.

On August 12, 1997, Huttenstine had contacted police to provide them with information regarding the drug trafficking activities of Drumheller. Thereafter, Huttenstine became a confidential informant and had contact with police many times. Brenda Thomas (Thomas), another former girlfriend of Drumheller, who was also cooperating with police as a confidential informant, testified that she had first met Huttenstine in May of 1997, at which point Huttenstine showed her bruises and bite marks. According to Thomas, Huttenstine told her that Troy Drumheller had done this by punching her, pulling her hair, biting her, and kicking her with steel-toed boots. Id. at 195. While Huttenstine was at Thomas’ house, Drumheller appeared and accused them both of plotting against him to set him up on a drug bust. Id. at 196. Troy Drumheller allegedly told Huttenstine and Thomas that if “either one of [them] ever did anything to set him up he would kill [them].” Id. On other occasions, Drumheller told Thomas that he thought Huttenstine was providing information to police about his drug dealing and that if he “ever found out or had proof to back up his suspicions he would kill her.” Id. at 197. Cheryl Cerasoli (Cerasoli), the director of Beyond Violence, a women’s center that Huttenstine frequented between January of 1999 and her death that April, testified that Huttenstine told her that, “Troy is going to kill me. He knows that I am going to testify against him.” Id. at 208-209.

Shortly after midnight on April 24, 1999, the date of her murder, Huttenstine appeared at the mobile home of Robert Brockway (Brockway), a friend and co-worker of Huttenstine. Brockway testified that Huttenstine told him that Drumheller had gotten into her house and had started beating her. (N.T., dated December 5, 2000, Volume 3, at 38-39). Huttenstine showed Brockway bruises and bite marks. Id. At approximately 1:30 a.m., Brockway and Huttenstine were startled by a loud noise; Brockway testified to the ensuing events as follows:

A: I heard the screen door pulled open and then my inside door was kicked in.

* * *

Q: Once the door swung open and swung back what is the first you observed in regard to your front entrance?

A: The door had swung. It hit the door and it had swung back part way. And the first thing I saw was-it was the light reflecting off of a knife blade.

Q: Subsequent to seeing the knife blade did you see an individual that you recognized?

A: Yes.

Q: Who was that individual?

A: Troy Drumheller walked into the house.

* * *

Q: Mr. Drumheller entered your home that night? Can I assume he had no permission to enter your home?

A: No.

* * *

Q: Once the Defendant entered and closed the door was the knife still in his hand?

A: Yes․ His right hand.

* * *

Q: Sir, what specifically, if you can recall did he say to Carol Huttenstine at that point?

A: As they were arguing she was saying that “I had nothing to do with this.” He was just yelling over top of her about running away from him all the time, going to the police all the time, testifying. It was just a battery of things that he went through.

Q: At any point during that battery of things did he mention a P.F.A. or protection from abuse order?

A: Yes, he did.

Q: What was the last thing that he said to her prior to anything physically happening?

A: Well, as they went through the things, running to the police, the cops, and then “You are going to [expletive deleted] testify.” And then he stabbed her.

Q: Sir, where did he stab her?

A: He stabbed her in the left side of the torso.

* * *

Q: At that point, Sir, did you react or do anything?

A: Yes, I said, “Troy don’t do this,” you know, you know, “there is nothing going on. I don’t know what is going on. It has nothing to do with me.”

Q: And what did he say to you?

A: He told me, he said, “shut the [expletive deleted] up, boyfriend.”

Q: Did he then make a move in your direction?

A: Yes.

Q: Can you explain what he did?

A: The area was-it was only a ten-foot wide trailer. And with the furniture in there there is only a few spaces you can walk through it. And, he just took like two steps and he stabbed me [in] my left breast.

* * *

A: I looked up at him. I couldn’t believe he did this. And he laughed and he said, “See that? Look at that. You are bleeding. You are going to die tonight. We are all going to die tonight.”

* * *

A: [He then turned back to Carol.] He was facing Carol, away from me. And when I stood up he turned to face me again.

Q: Was the knife still in his right hand?

A: Yes.

Q: At that point, did Carol do something that distracted him?

A: Yes, she was holding the phone up. She grabbed the phone and she hit the talk button and it beeped and she started dialing.

Q: What did the Defendant do at that point?

A: He grabbed the phone with his left hand and I couldn’t really see what he did, but it looked like a punching motion and the phone was smashed.

* * *

Q: At that point was there any conversation between Carol and yourself?

A: Yes. Right when he grabbed the phone and smashed it she said, “Bob, go get help. Go next door.”

Q: Did you start to run out the back of the trailer?

A: Yes.

Q: Prior to exiting the trailer, did you look back at Carol and say anything?

A: Yes, I fell at the door. I was dizzy when I got up. When I ran off, and I stood up, and I turned around, and I told her “Carol, I am going for help.”

Q: Do you know whether the Defendant still had physical possession of the knife?

A: Yes, he did.

Q: Where was he the last time you saw the Defendant? Where was he in relation to Carol?

A: Standing right next to the chair yelling at her.

(N.T., Volume 3, at 43-51). Brockway made it to the home of a neighbor, who called the police and the paramedics. At 1:44 a.m., the State Police arrived at the scene and observed Huttenstine’s motionless body laying on the floor of Brockway’s mobile home.

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