DAVIDSON, APPELLEE. BACK HERE IN THE LANCASTER COUNTY PRISON. THIS AFTER THE DEFENSE STIPULATED THAT THE PROSECUTION HAD ENOUGH DNA EVIDENCE TO MOVE THIS CASE FORWARD TOWARD TRIAL. THAT DNA EVIDENCE INCLUDE EVIDENCE COLLECTED FROM SIMPLY FROM A DISCARDED COFFEE CUP AT PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. EARLIER THIS YEAR. HE IS ACCUSED OF MURDERING 19 YEAR OLD LINDY BIEGLER MORE THAN 46 YEARS AGO. ANY COMMENT ABOUT YOUR RELATIONSHIP. AND DAVIDSON APPELLEE DIDN’T HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY. AS HE LEFT DISTRICT JUDGE JOSH KELLER’S COURTROOM IN MILLERSVILLE. HE WAS HANDCUFFED AND SHACKLED. HE SAT EXPRESSIONLESS IN THE COURTROOM. HE IS CHARGED WITH STABBING 19 YEAR OLD LADY SOUPY CLAUDE TO DEATH INSIDE HER APARTMENT. SNOW BOY ONCE LIVED IN THE SAME MANOR TOWNSHIP COMPLEX. NO MOTIVE HAS BEEN GIVEN. THE COURTROOM WAS PACKED WITH FAMILY MEMBERS FOR THE VICTIM AND THE DEFENDANT. SECURITY WAS TIGHT. NO ONE WANTED TO COMMENT AFTERWARD AS THIS CASE MOVES FORWARD. IF YOU KNEW WHO I WAS, SPECULATION. IT’S NOT UNUSUAL. THAT’S WHAT THE AGREEMENT WAS FOR. TODAY’S PURPOSES. BUT I CAN’T COMMENT FURTHER AT THIS TIME. NOW, SINOPOLI WAS NOT A SUSPECT AT THE TIME OF THE CRIME, BUT HE HAS LIVED AND WORKED NEARBY IN LANCASTER COUNTY, A PRELIMINARY HEARING IS SET FOR LAT
Lancaster County man accused of killing Lindy Sue Biechler held for trial
A Lancaster County man charged in a 1975 homicide has been ordered to stand trial.David Sinopoli, 68, didn’t say anything as he left a courtroom following a preliminary hearing Thursday. Police said Sinopoli stabbed Lindy Sue Biechler, 19, to death at her Manor Township apartment in 1975. It’s Lancaster County’s oldest cold case.Investigators said they used DNA and genetic genealogy technology to help identify Sinopoli.Sinopoli faces one charge of criminal homicide.He was arrested in July at his East Hempfield Township home and remains at Lancaster County Prison.An arraignment is scheduled for Oct. 28.The Lindy Sue Biechler caseBiechler’s aunt and uncle found her body on Dec. 5, 1975, in her home at the Spring Manor Apartments in Manor Township. She had been stabbed 19 times in her back, chest and neck. She also had defensive wounds.At a news conference this summer, Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams said that at one time, Sinopoli lived in the same four-unit building, which had a shared lobby, that Biechler lived in.Other than living in the same building for a period of time, Adams did not elaborate on any connection between Sinopoli and Biechler.Video below: Full news conference from July 2022, about arrest.
A Lancaster County man charged in a 1975 homicide has been ordered to stand trial.
David Sinopoli, 68, didn’t say anything as he left a courtroom following a preliminary hearing Thursday.
Police said Sinopoli stabbed Lindy Sue Biechler, 19, to death at her Manor Township apartment in 1975. It’s Lancaster County’s oldest cold case.
Investigators said they used DNA and genetic genealogy technology to help identify Sinopoli.
Sinopoli faces one charge of criminal homicide.
He was arrested in July at his East Hempfield Township home and remains at Lancaster County Prison.
An arraignment is scheduled for Oct. 28.
The Lindy Sue Biechler case
Biechler’s aunt and uncle found her body on Dec. 5, 1975, in her home at the Spring Manor Apartments in Manor Township. She had been stabbed 19 times in her back, chest and neck. She also had defensive wounds.
At a news conference this summer, Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams said that at one time, Sinopoli lived in the same four-unit building, which had a shared lobby, that Biechler lived in.
Other than living in the same building for a period of time, Adams did not elaborate on any connection between Sinopoli and Biechler.
Video below: Full news conference from July 2022, about arrest.
