Wackadoddle
Posted on 01/16/2011 4:43:06 AM PST by markomalley
Nearly two decades after Amish man Edward Gingerich outraged his normally peaceful religious community by killing his wife, he has been found dead of an apparent suicide.
Gingerich, 44, hung himself in a barn on Friday in Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania, police said.
He had been living at the property with his attorney, George Schroeck, for the past six months.
Schroeck told Reuters that his wife, Stephanie, discovered Gingerich's body, along with a message written in dust on top of a bucket that read, "Forgive me please."
Gingerich became the first Amish person found guilty of homicide, when he was convicted in 1994 of involuntarily manslaughter for killing his wife, Katie, said Jim Fisher, who covered Gingerich's story in his book "Crimson Stain."
A jury found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter, but mentally ill, for the 1993 killing in the couple's home in Rockdale Township, Pennsylvania, where he crushed his wife's skull and used a kitchen knife to remove her stomach organs from her dead body.
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Amish-run-amok ping
Watch for the MSM to connect this guy to Newt.
Yet another driven over the edge by the work of that fiendish troika Palin, Limbaugh, and Beck! /sar
Stopped taking his meds. Pay attention to what that can lead to, Mr. Olbermann.
Black?
The MSM demonizes all conservative groups while giving sympathy to all losers. The Amish are ultra-conservative.
Wackadoddle
It’s George Bush’s fault.
"found him...mentally ill." Ya think.
Obviously Sarah Palin had a lot to with this. Will she never stop? This is the question the MSM will asking.
Aha! I knew those Amish were no good.
Why was this killer released in the first place? People are very lucky out there his second killing was of himself, rather than someone else.
Wow, an actual violent Amish dude.
Well, ex-Amish now.
He killed his wife but his wife found him dead. Cool!
/obscure?
She was resurrected. Happens in Amish land all the time ya know.
Danged islamists.
Gingerich? The well known (to scientists) ‘newt’ gene. Figures!
Hey, there, yah, that guy Hershberger down the road next to Miller and across the street from Yoder, the one that lives next to Troyer, yah, that one, it happened to him, too. Like I say, he died in the fall and just came right up out the ground, don't ya know, in the spring, hitched up the horses, an started plowing the field just like nothin happened! Yah, I saw it with both mah own eyes, I did!
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