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HS Football Jacket IDs Northern Westchester Man As Capitol Rioter HS Football Jacket IDs Northern Westchester Man As Capitol Rioter
HS Football Jacket IDs Northern Westchester Man As Capitol Rioter A Hudson Valley man who was among those who stormed the U.S. Capitol during the riots in Washington D.C. earlier this month has been identified after being busted wearing his high school letterman’s jacket. Northern Westchester resident Brian Gundersen, age 26, a graduate of Byram Hills High School in Armonk, was charged in connection to his role in the riot after being identified when investigators noticed his jacket in photos and videos from the incident on Wednesday, Jan. 6. Gundersen now faces federal charges that include knowingly entering and remaining on restricted grounds and disord…

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by Zak Failla
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Brunswick School Graduates Help Georgetown Soccer Team Win National Title Brunswick School Graduates Help Georgetown Soccer Team Win National Title
Brunswick School Graduates Help Georgetown Soccer Team Win National Title It came down to penalties and a miraculous save by a freshman keeper, but three former high school soccer standouts from the area helped lead Georgetown University to the school’s first national championship. Pleasantville’s Dante Polvara, Rye’s Will Sands, who both graduated from the Brunswick School in Greenwich, and Thornwood’s Jack Beer, who was a former captain at Byram Hills High School, took center stage during the biggest game of their lives, helping the Hoyas win 7-6 in penalty kicks against No. 1 Virginia in a game played Sunday night, Dec. 15 in Cary, North Carolina. It was a thr…

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by Zak Failla
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Gruesome Details Emerge In Murder Of Ex-Area Resident Found In Cave Gruesome Details Emerge In Murder Of Ex-Area Resident Found In Cave
Gruesome Details Emerge In Murder Of Ex-Area Resident Found In Cave A former Northern Westchester resident who was found murdered and sexually assaulted on the Island of Crete in Greece was initially hit by a car twice by the man charged with the crime, authorities said. Suzanne Eaton, 59, a molecular biologist at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Germany, who disappeared on Tuesday, July 2 while on a work conference trip, was found dead six days later in a cave by two people exploring the area, said Crete Police Major Eleni Papathanasiou.  Papathanasiou said it was Eaton's fourth visit to the island to take part in similar…

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by Kathy Reakes
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Married Father Reportedly Suspect In Ex-Area Resident's Murder Married Father Reportedly Suspect In Ex-Area Resident's Murder
Married Father Reportedly Suspect In Ex-Area Resident's Murder A married father of two has reportedly been arrested for the murder of a former Northern Westchester resident on the Greek Island of Crete. The unnamed 27-year-old man has already confessed to killing Suzanne Eaton, 59, who graduated from Byram Hills High School in Armonk in 1977, reported the BCC News. Eaton, a renowned molecular biologist, was reported missing Tuesday, July 2, after failing to show up for a conference she was attending.  Following a massive search, her body was found on Monday, July 8, by two explorers inside a World War II bunker, which is a system of manmade …

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by Kathy Reakes
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Pathologists: Ex-Area Resident Found Murdered In Cave Suffered Slow Death Pathologists: Ex-Area Resident Found Murdered In Cave Suffered Slow Death
Pathologists: Ex-Area Resident Found Murdered In Cave Suffered Slow Death Forensic pathologists who performed the autopsy on a former Northern Westchester resident found murdered in a cave said she suffered a slow death. In an interview with CBS News, pathologist Stamatis Belivanis said renowned scientist Suzanne Eaton, 59, a 1977 graduate of Byram Hills High School in Armonk, was suffocated to death and then left in a World War II-era cave-type bunker once used by the Nazis in Greece. Her body was found by two people exploring the area. Some Greek media outlets have reported that Eaton had knife wounds and that she may have been tortured and sexually assaulted.…

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by Kathy Reakes
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Missing Scientist Who Graduated From HS In Area Found Dead In Greece Missing Scientist Who Graduated From HS In Area Found Dead In Greece
Missing Scientist Who Graduated From HS In Area Found Dead In Greece A missing scientist who graduated from high school in Northern Westchester has died in Greece. Suzanne Eaton, 59, who graduated from Byram Hills High School in Armonk in 1977, was found dead on Monday, July 8, said her employer, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Germany. Eaton, who worked for the company as a researcher and as a professor at the Biotechnology Center of the TU Dresden, was attending a conference when she went missing. Eaton was last seen on the afternoon of July 2 near the port city of Chania on Crete, where she was attending the conference. Gre…

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by Kathy Reakes
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Support Pours In For Area Native Who Survived Deadly Cougar Attack Support Pours In For Area Native Who Survived Deadly Cougar Attack
Support Pours In For Area Native Who Survived Deadly Cougar Attack Friends have rallied around the Westchester native who survived an extremely rare and much-publicized cougar attack that resulted in the death of a friend last week in the Cascade Mountains near Seattle.Isaac "Izzy" Sederbaum, 31, a social science researcher who graduated from Byram Hills High School in Armonk, was treated for his injuries at a nearby hospital and has been released. A GoFundMe page has been set up to help cover Sederbaum's medical expenses. You can access the page by clicking here. Sederbaum was mountain biking with fellow Seattleite SJ Brooks, 32, a leader in the…

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by Joe Lombardi
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Lone Survivor Of Fatal Cougar Attack ID'd As Area Native Lone Survivor Of Fatal Cougar Attack ID'd As Area Native
Lone Survivor Of Fatal Cougar Attack ID'd As Area Native A Westchester native has been identified as the survivor of an extremely rare and much-publicized fatal cougar attack that occurred last week in the Cascade Mountains near Seattle. Isaac Sederbaum, 31, a social science researcher who graduated from Byram Hills High School in Armonk, was treated for his injuries at a nearby hospital and has been released. Sederbaum was mountain biking with fellow Seattleite SJ Brooks, 32, a leader in the local cycling community, in the morning on Saturday, May 19 when the attack occurred in which Brooks was killed. The two initially scared off the cougar by…

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by Joe Lombardi