"Adams was a teenager when the crime occurred, and prosecutors said she still lives in the same neighborhood."
Posted on 09/08/2016 11:46:42 AM PDT by simpson96
Thirty-three years after Edmund C. Schreiber, a slightly built, World War I veteran, was found strangled with eight of his own neckties in his Hastings Avenue home, technology caught up with police work. And that police work led to the arrest Wednesday of a Buffalo woman on murder charges.
Saundra Adams, now 50, who had been a neighbor of Schreiber’s in 1983, was arraigned Wednesday in Erie County Court on charges of second degree murder in the long unsolved killing.
Investigators believe Adams acted with someone else in the attack on Schreiber, who was 92 years old when he was killed. Schreiber, born in 1891, was orphaned as a child, served in WWI and was awarded a Purple Heart. He and his wife raised their family in the house on Hastings, where they lived for more than 50 years. Schreiber’s wife died about five years before he was killed.
On June 23, 1983, a neighbor and workers at a nearby senior citizens’ center became concerned when Schreiber didn’t show up for lunch as usual. They went to his home and his body was found on his bed, covered with blankets and pillows.
The homicide seemed particularly senseless to those in the Kensington neighborhood.
In addition to being elderly, Schreiber was barely over 5 feet tall and weighed only about 100 pounds. That didn’t keep his killers from tying his hands and wrapping eight neckties – his own ties – around his throat to choke him to death.
Assistant District Attorney Thomas M. Finnerty said in court that some of the new evidence that led police to Adams was found in those neckties.
“The defendant’s DNA was found on multiple knots on the ties used to strangle him,” Finnerty told Judge David Foley.
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"Adams was a teenager when the crime occurred, and prosecutors said she still lives in the same neighborhood."
That’s a really bad headline.
Somehow her DNA must be in the database. If so then she has a criminal record. Also maybe she was a suspect early on and they acquired her DNA.
Public hanging - with a tie.
She deserves a life sentence for that hair alone!
Give her a break. That pic was taken just after they tasered her...six times.
You don’t, as a teenager, strangle an old man and live a “normal” life, unless you are a true and intelligent atheist. But even then, you would not live that long.
I can’t see her picture, but I have a feeling it shows a hard life.
“Give her a break.”
Yes. Give her a break...of her neck with one of those neckties she used.
Are they going to have to try her in juvenile court?
She is the mom of either Kid or Play. I get them mixed up, but I loved them in “House Party”.
RIP, hero.
What is wrong with people?!
“Are they going to have to try her in juvenile court?”
Depending upon birthdays, she was probably 17 at the time.
Strange. I don’t see the words “hate crime” or “racism” or
“unarmed White man” in this account from the “Main Stream Media”.
Curious.
Almost no criminal record.
Strangled a WW1 vet? yep, just as I thought, a child of Obama!
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