Last week, the only Amish man ever convicted of murder had a tearful reunion with family. Unfortunately the tears were all on one side:
An Amish man convicted in the grisly 1993 disembowelment murder of his wife returned to Crawford County last week and seized his 17-year-old daughter, Mary, after his son hijacked the horse-drawn buggy in which she was riding, family members said.Edward Gingerich spent five years in prison after he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter but mentally ill for stomping his wife, Katie, to death in the family home and then cutting out her organs. He is being sought in the seizure, which took place along a rural road Wednesday night.
State police are attempting to locate the girl.
Friends of the Gingerich family said Mary was traveling with an aunt near the family's home in the Amish settlement of Brownhill, Crawford County, when an older brother leapt into the buggy and took the reins. According to a court document filed seeking the return of the girl, the brother then drove the buggy to a barn owned by Mr. Gingerich's brother, Atlee.
The door to the barn was locked, trapping the aunt inside and Mary Gingerich was forced to leave in a waiting car with her father.
I hope the girl makes it out of this alive. It's a mystery why anyone would have assisted a man with his background in a kidnapping.
Posted by floridacracker at April 23, 2007 02:56 AMThe big mystery is why they let this sick SOB out of jail after he stomped his wife to death. We are paying too much attention to the rights of criminals who have proved that they’re a danger to the public.
Posted by: Ike Jones at April 23, 2007 01:32 PMI can't figure it out either, though I guess they went easy on him because he's crazy. He's spent most of his time in a happy home the Amish run for their mentally ill, but it looks like he felt it was time to go out and renew old acquaintances whether they wanted them renewed or not. The girl's brother has a lot to answer for for helping the father terrorize her.
Posted by: Donnah at April 23, 2007 07:32 PMOnce. Just once, I would like to see the person or persons responsible for allowing a maniac like this to walk free among us. WTF?! How often do we have to see child predators or other rabid lunatics do what they do best to figure out that they don't get better with time?
Donnah, its time to roll the clip of that father gunning down the extradited child predator in the airport.
Posted by: tfhr at April 23, 2007 08:28 PMThey found the girl and she's OK.
http://www.bradfordera.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18255784&BRD=52&PAG=461&dept_id=569780&rfi=6
Kind of mysterious all around. But it IS the Amish, God love 'em.
Posted by: CJ at April 25, 2007 01:07 PMThanks, I was worried about her. Any time killers start removing uteri I get nervous:
"Once all of her clothes were removed, he took a steak knife from the kitchen drawer and used it to make a seven-inch incision in her lower abdomen. Through the incision, Ed reached his hand up inside Katie’s body cavity, and removed her lungs, kidneys, stomach, liver, spleen, bladder, uterus and heart. He stacked all of her organs in a pile next to her body, and stuck the knife into the top of them. Satisfied with his work, Ed washed himself up in the sink, threw his Bible into the fireplace, and told the children to put on their coats on. 'I’m taking you to Granddad’s,' he said, 'then I’m coming back to burn down the house.'"
Posted by: Donnah at April 25, 2007 03:51 PM