David Vincent Sinopoli, the man charged with killing Lindy Sue Biechler nearly 50 years ago in what had been Lancaster County’s oldest cold case, intends to plead guilty next week.
SHENANDOAH — A Mahanoy Twp. man charged with assaulting a woman and man inside a Mahanoy City home last month using a knife and a heater waived his right to
SHENANDOAH — A Mahanoy Twp. man charged with assaulting a woman and man inside a Mahanoy City home last month using a knife and a heater waived his right to
A judge is giving more time to the defense and prosecution teams in the case of David Vincent Sinopoli, who is charged with the 1975 killing of Lindy Sue Biechler.
David Vincent Sinopoli, appearing in a district courtroom Thursday dressed in an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs, was ordered to stand trial in the 1975 stabbing death of Lindy Sue Biechler,
Central Pa. man pleads no contest to charges he sexually molested 3 young girls
Updated May 11, 2021;
A central Pennsylvania man pleaded no contest Tuesday afternoon to charges that he spent years sexually molested three young girls.
Michael Kauffman, 40, of Lititz, entered that plea before Cumberland County Judge Christylee Peck as part of a plea deal that will net him a 5- to 10-year state prison sentence.
Kauffman’s plea to felony counts of statutory sexual assault, unlawful contact with a minor, indecent assault and child endangerment came 18 months after state police arrested him.
Michael A. Kauffman
Prosecutor Courtney Hair LaRue said all three victims were younger than 13 and that Kauffman was accused of committing the crimes multiple times at multiple sites in the county between January of 2011 and October 2019.