PENNSYLVANIA
Fox 43
BY HOWARD SHEPPARD
LEBANON, Pa (WPMT)-Former Methodist pastor Arthur “A.B” Schirmer, 66, is sentenced to 20 to 40 years for killing his first wife Jewel Schirmer in April 1999. The couple had been married for 31 years.
The prosecution contended that Jewel Schirmer was beaten in the head multiple times with a crowbar or something similiar. Schirmer claimed his wife died from injuries as the result of her falling down the basement stairs of their North Lebanon Township home. The cause of her death was at first declared Undetermined.
In 2011, the Lebanon County District Attorney’s Office, using an outside biomedical engineering firm, came up with tests results that proved Jewel Schirmer’s injuries were not the result of a fall down a flight of stairs.
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