Myrtle was 51 years old. She was strangled with a sash cord inside her 5th Avenue home in South Temple April 17, 1979, Justice prevails 29 years later.
MURDER/ RAPE 29 YEARS AGO ****JUSTICE****
Myrtle Rupp Unsolved Murder Case Reopened - click here to watch.
Myrtle Rupp
No Victim Should Ever Be Forgotten Myrtle was a head nurse at Community General Hospital. She took care of people. She was found in her bed, nude, bound at her wrists & ankles. Authorities believed she knew her attacker, but now the truth is known. The charged posed as a police officer, raped and killed Myrtle.
Article Dated 6/14/2008
Sentence for killer of Temple nurse not enough, nephew says
# pleaded guilty before Judge Linda K.M. Ludgate to the first-degree murder & rape of Rupp in exchange for a life sentence.
"However, it is my hope that by prolonging his life in prison it affords the possibility that he encounters someone in the prison population exactly like himself, who one day arbitrarily decides to make # his victim," he said, his voice shaking.
"As that someone strangles the last breathe of life from #'s pathetic, repulsive existence, perhaps # will reflect on what he had done not only to Myrtle but all his other victims," Rupp said.
"That is precisely how # deserves to die. That would be justice."
Article dated 6/13/2008
Serial murderer pleads guilty to killing that happened nearly 30 years ago
Report dated 6/13/2008
Now, police here say he confessed to the 1979 strangling of Myrtle Rupp. Charges against him are first and second degree murder and rape. Too bad there isn't a charge for torturing a family for 29 years to hear the truth.
Story Posted 1/11/2008
Article Dated 1/12/2008
Serial killer faces Berks County judge via closed TV
From a prison in Illinois, the inmate waives a preliminary hearing in the rape & murder of a 51-year-old Temple woman in 1979.
Article Dated 4/23/2008
Read the WFMZ news report here..
4/22/2008 Myrtle's accused killer has a preliminary hearing today, 29 years AFTER her murder.
In Pennsylvania, it was a persistent family member who encouraged officials to take another look at the 1979 murder.
David Rupp said he contacted state police last year after reading about an officer who was assigned to work on cold cases. Cpl. William Moyer, based out of Reading, discovered DNA evidence and ran it through a national database.
What about the best interest of the victims?
Southeast Missourian News, read here.
# may face murder charges in Penn. without leaving prison in Ill.
February 12, 2008
Berks County, PA District Attorney John Adams said they will do their best to arrange for # court proceedings to take place without having to extradite him.
"We're looking into resolving this case without physically bringing him back to Pennsylvania," Adams said.
Pennsylvania state law allows for criminal proceedings to take place even if the defendant is not actually present, unless the case goes to trial, if all of the parties agree, Adams said.
Authorities decided it would be in the best interest of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania if # was not extradited, Adams said.
Article Dated 3/14/2008
# faces 5 new charges Sporting orange Cape Girardeau County Jail garb and thick black glasses made of rubber for safety, ?????????? Whose safety are we protecting?
Article Dated April 14, 1996
Retired Chief looks back on six decades
Serial Rapist/Killer
DNA link leads police to reopen probe into Temple woman's 1979 murder
Article Dated 12/13/2007
Family Member Speaks About Possible Local Serial Killer Link
Article Dated 12/15/2007 Troopers get DNA sample in ’79 Muhlenberg murder
DNA matches the murderer of Deborah Sheppard in 1982. She was 23 years old. A recent review of the case led an investigator to a piece of DNA evidence that linked *suspect* an Allentown, Pa., native, to the crime.
