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Thirty-four years after 23-year-old Janet Walsh was found brutally murdered in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, a new piece of evidence has a determined investigator closer than ever to solving...
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Oct 5, 2022 · Police initially looked to at least three suspects in Walsh’s murder: (1) her estranged husband, Scott Walsh; (2) a man who followed her and her friends to a restaurant after they met at a bar earlier the night she died, Robert McGrail; and (3) Hopkins, her illicit lover and the man who had built the home she and her husband previously lived ...
- No Shortage of Suspects
- A Bombshell
- The Trial of Scott Hopkins
- The Verdict
“This case is about a young woman, 23 years old in 1979, who is tragically murdered. And it completely tears apart and devastates her family,” said Assistant District Attorney Brittany Smith. In the days following the horrific discovery of Janet Walsh’s lifeless body, rookie investigator Andy Gall reached for leads in every possible direction, reco...
“I don’t have any eyewitnesses. I don’t have any physical evidence. I have no serious motive. I have no one coming forth,” Pennsylvania State Trooper Richard Matas told Peter Van Sant. Detective Rocco DeMailo, working in a cold case squad, says in late 2010, all of that would change. Time and technology finally caught up to Janet Walsh’s case. “The...
In November 2013, Scott Hopkins -- now 67 years old and a grandfather -- goes on trial for the murder of Janet Walsh in 1979. No cameras are allowed in the courtroom. Janet’s younger brother, Francesco Caltieri, says as the proceedings began, all he could do was pray. “Please, God, give everyone the strength to do what is right and to do your biddi...
For Francesco Caltieri, the trial of his sister’s accused killer would be bitter. “I was transported back 30-plus years to being just -- having my innards just shredded. My heart -- didn’t even know how to work,” he told “48 Hours.” “My fear, and it came to fruition, was that it would be like yesterday, like it just happened.” Caltieri attended eac...
- 48 Hours" Correspondent
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- CBS News
- Peter Van Sant
May 17, 2015 · Crime. 34 years later, detective closes haunting cold case. By Andy Gall. Updated on: December 31, 2016 / 6:08 PM EST / CBS News. Andy Gall was a first responder in 1979 to the scene where...
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- Andy Gall
Apr 6, 2020 · Gregory Hopkins’ lawyer simply wasn’t effective in challenging expert witness testimony by famed pathologist Cyril Wecht during Hopkins’ 2013 trial for the slaying of his part-time lover Janet...
Oct 5, 2022 · Gregory Hopkins claims investigators charged him for the murder of Janet Walsh without probable cause and fabricated evidence in the case.
Apr 6, 2020 · Harrisburg, PA. Today, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania granted inmate Scott Hopkins a new trial. On November 22, 2013, a Beaver County jury had convicted Hopkins of third-degree murder in the 1979 slaying of Janet Walsh.
