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Susan Reinert was soon smitten with Bill Bradfield and the two apparently began a passionate, secret affair. The romance had to remain a secret because of Susan's marriage and Bradfield's cohabitation with Sue Myers — which was also a secret because Bradfield supposedly feared that they would lose their jobs if the school knew that two of its ...
Oct 10, 1983 · The defendant, William S. Bradfield Jr., was the sole beneficiary of the estate of Susan Reinert, a teacher of English who called him ''my future husband'' in her will.
Jun 30, 2009 · Within weeks, we learned that Susan Reinert had named Bradfield, the man she thought she was going to marry, as the beneficiary of life insurance policies worth $730,000.
As the 1970s came to an end and made way for the 1980s, Bill Bradfield found himself embroiled in a civil lawsuit filed on behalf of Susan Reinert by her brother and ex-husband, who were still left without answers for the woman's murder and the disappearance of her two children.
- Fall of 1963
- 1966 – Dr. Jay C. Smith
- 1972/1973 – Susan Reinert Begins at Upper Merion Senior High School
- 1974 – Susan Admits Affair
- May 1974 – Susan Writes Letters
- August 1977 – Sears & Roebuck Robbery
- December 1977 – Security Guard Impostor
- 1977 – Faculty Altercation
- May 1978 – Jay C. Smith Out as Principal
- Summer 1978 – Classes at St. John’s College
Susan Myers, a newly hired English teacher, started at Upper Merion H.S. at the age of 23.Soon after she met William Bradfield who was the head of the English Department. He was her mentor and was 7 years her senior. Within a year the two were lovers. They began a 17 year “some time” secret relationship. Susan Myers was described as being moderatel...
Dr. Jay C. Smith started his first day at Upper Merion High School in his full dress Army Reserve Uniform. Jay C. Smith was a colonel with the 79th Army Reserve Unit. He had served under John Eisenhower. Eisenhower was the son of the 34th President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower. As first impressions go he made quite an impact and not n...
Susan Reinert began as an English teacher at Upper Merion Senior High School. At the time Susan was married to Ken Reinert. He was a former Air Force Captain who was a navigator on a B 52 bomber. After retiring from the Air Force he took a job at a Philadelphia bank. The Reinert family settled down in Ardmore, PA, but the marriage was in trouble.
Susan hosted a literary shoot-out at her home that Bill Bradfield and others from the Upper Merion English Department attended. This seemed to be the beginning of their secret relationship. Susan told a friend and co-worker Sharon Lee and her occasional psychologist, Rosalyn Rivkin (in Echoes in the Darkness she has the last name of Weinberger)that...
Susan would write letters to Bill that she would never mail. In one such letter, she wrote: “missing you and resenting restriction caused by Sue Myers.”
In August 1977, the Sears & Roebuck store in St. Davids was robbed. The robber dressed in a look-alike Brink’s armored guard uniform. He walked into the Sears store and gave a signed ID card to the cashier with the name of Carl S. Williams. The robber walked out with $34,073 in cash.
A security guard walks into the Sears & Roebuck store in the Neshaminy Mall around 2 pm. He gave an id card to the cashier with the name of Albert J. Wharton. The name matched but the signature did not. She asked about the money they had requested and the guard told her that it was on another truck, which had never happened before. The cashier cont...
Sue Myers kicked Susan Reinert in the shin in an altercation in the faculty lounge at school stating “if you care for yourself and your kids you’d better leave Bill alone.” Susan Reinert had been attending group therapy and was told by several group members not to put up with Bill Bradfield’s treatment of her and his excuses. They told her he was u...
The faculty at the Upper Merion Senior H.S. learned that Jay C. Smith would be leaving his position as principal for a new role in the administrative offices as the Special Services Coordinator. The reason for this move was because Jay C. Smith had been caught shoplifting at various businesses in the area.
In the summer of 1978, Bill Bradfield took classes at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Chris Pappas, a former student, who he had mentored also attended. Chris introduced Bill to Joanna Aitken. In the book Echoes in the Darkness she is referred to as Rachel. Bill had an on-again-off-again relationship with Joanna that would last for year...
Shortly after his release in 1983, Bradfield was rearrested and charged with conspiring to murder Susan, Karen, and Michael. Prosecutors said Bradfield had murdered Susan and the children for Susan's life insurance, and to keep her from finding out he had stolen the money she'd given him to invest.
May 28, 2013 · Reinert, who was married with two children, Karen, 11, and Michael, 10, began her affair with fellow Upper Merion Area High School teacher William Bradfield in the mid 1970s.
