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3 Children, Dead Mom Abandoned When Dad Commits Arson In Fake Home-Invasion In PA, DA Says
"He lied since day one," Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Ponessa said of Carlos Montalvo-Rivera.
The 55-year-old Lancaster liar had concocted a wild story "that intruders broke into the home, killed his wife, and set fire to it out of retaliation for the victim’s brother, who had cooperated with the DEA in an unrelated case," according to a release by the Lancaster County District Attorney's Office on Friday, April 7, 2023.
Really, he started the blaze to cover up a murder that he himself had committed, authorities said.
Montalvo-Rivera's lies started on the night of t…
PA Man Who "Didn’t Show Shred Of Remorse" Sentenced To Life In Prison, Officials Say
A central Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to life in prison in connection with a 2019 murder, according a release by the Lancaster County district attorney's office.
Raymond Lydell Speller, 40, of Lancaster, was sentenced for killing Pedro Almodovar, 36, on Friday by Lancaster County Judge Jeffery Wright according to the release.
Almodovar was killed while sitting in a parked red SUV in the 300 block of Howard Avenue on Sept. 23, 2019, as Lancaster Bureau of police reported at the time.
Speller’s friend walked past the vehicle, said “what’s up” and walked to a home on the avenue only e…