PENNSYLVANIA
Montgomery Media
By Keith Phucas
kphucas@journaleregister.com
When Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua was found dead a day after he was found competent to testify in an upcoming child endangerment case, Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman wondered why county officials were not notified and prompted her to ask for a post-mortem examination.
“When that notification did not come, that piqued my interest,” Ferman said at a news conference Friday.
The DA said she learned of the cardinal’s death on the morning news on Jan. 31 and not through law enforcement or other official sources, so she asked a county detective to look into the matter.
“The situation struck me as peculiar, somewhat odd that in that close proximity of time where the Philadelphia court had made that determination about this witness, he all of a sudden was found deceased,” she said.
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