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District Attorney Says The Meyers Were The Quintessential Killer Couple. Aiming to cash in on the hefty life, renter’s and homeowner’s insurance policies they’d taken out in the previous two months, Joe Meyers and his wife, Iryn, conspired to burn 60-year-old David O’Dell’s house to ground while he was trapped inside.
November 21, 2021. In February 2016, a deadly blaze of fire in upstate New York caused the death of a beloved handyman, David O’Dell. The 60-year-old was found wholly burned after a fire engulfed his farmhouse. But within days, the authorities uncovered a sinister plot to cash in on multiple insurance policies in David’s name.
“We are very satisfied,” said O’Dell, the eldest brother of David, a 60-year-old who was a quiet but popular neighborhood resident on New Galen Road in Wayland until he was murdered — burned alive in his own home for a potential $170,000 in insurance proceeds, prosecutors said — by Joseph and Iryn Meyers on Feb. 15, 2016.
Joseph and Iryn Meyers (L to R) were charged with arson and murder in the death of David O'Dell on February 15 (New York State Police) Wayland, N.Y. - A couple in Steuben County was indicted...
Authorities she and her husband, 45-year-old Joseph Meyers, killed David O’Dell by setting fire to his Wayland home in February 2016. Prosecutors say the couple killed O’Dell to collect more than $140,000 in insurance money.
Prosecutors contended that Joseph and Iryn Meyers intentionally murdered O'Dell and set his home ablaze in an attempt to collect more than $140,000 in insurance money. Steuben County District...
1:34. BATH — A Steuben County Court jury took just three hours Tuesday to convict 38-year-old Iryn B. Meyers of second-degree murder and two counts of first-degree arson for the murder of David O’Dell in Wayland last year.
