Word: merion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...children Karen, 11, and Michael, 10, had vanished, most likely on the day their mother was killed. They have never been found, and are presumed dead. A seven-year investigation eventually led to the arrests and convictions of two men, former colleagues of Reinert's at the Upper Merion High School outside Philadelphia...
Bradfield was an Upper Merion English teacher and is now serving three life sentences for conspiracy in the Reinert murders. The actual killings were done by Jay Smith, the school principal, who was sentenced to death and awaits execution. How Smith ever got to be an administrator of impressionable youth remains one of those mysteries of American public education. He fixed people with a cold, goatish stare and liked to shock. His opening remark to a teacher who had recently lost her husband: "As a young widow, perhaps you could tell me how you handle your sex life." When police...
...other kids take a stuffed animal." Haig's mother tried to talk the boy into becoming a lawyer, but, says Regina, "Al never batted an eyelid. He was constant about that one thing: he was going to West Point." Haig's principal at Lower Merion High School told the boy "you'll never make it" because his marks were not good enough. Said Haig: "You're wrong. I'm going to make...