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...Presbyterian minister, as he walked with his wife in the Muslim section. His wife was left behind unharmed. The two other missing Americans are Peter Kilburn, 60, a librarian at the American University of Beirut who vanished on Dec. 3, and Lawrence Jenco, 51, a Roman Catholic priest and head of the Catholic Relief Services in the Lebanese capital, who was captured at gunpoint about four weeks...
...Father Jerzy Popieluszko's death? The trial entered its final days last week as Pietrasinski gave his summation in the trial of the four secret-police officers charged in the abduction and murder of Popieluszko. The bespectacled prosecutor unleashed an almost theatrical fury upon the confessed leader of the priest's killers, former Secret Police Captain Grzegorz Piotrowski. Said Pietrasinski: "Piotrowski is a cold and ruthless murderer, a rascal who used the confidence of his subordinates for a hideous crime...
Byrdy's testimony shattered the defense of Grzegorz Piotrowski, the leader of the three secret policemen who admit to having beaten and bound the priest. Although in his testimony he made no attempt to conceal his own part in the kidnaping and killing, Piotrowski has based his hope to escape the death sentence on the earlier autopsy conclusion that the priest had strangled on his bonds. Popieluszko was trussed by Piotrowski's assistants, co-defendants and former secret police officers Leszek Pekala and Waldemar Chmielewski. By suggesting that the savage beating contributed to Popieluszko's death, Byrdy may have destroyed...
...that he had assigned to investigate the case. He claimed, for example, that because he was drowsy from the effect of sleeping pills, he had failed to realize the significance of the fact that a ministry car had been spotted in the city of Bydgoszcz the night of the priest's death. Platek also insisted that the date on a travel permit that Piotrowski had used the night Popieluszko was killed had been altered before it was turned over as evidence in the Interior Ministry's investigation of the crime...
Lawyers for the priest's family seemed to be engaged in a losing battle with state prosecutors and defense lawyers to bring new information to light. The jumbled testimony and the court's obvious reluctance to grill the witnesses for evidence that might implicate high government officials suggest that the truth in Torun may never be found...