necessary to carry out sally weiner s kidnapping and murder. we were able to recover 80% of the plan back off of the hard drive. 20% of that had been overwritten or altered and to a point where we couldn t recover the data. this evidence was the most damning. this evidence connected the computer to the man to the notes to the crime. this document revealed that sally weiner wasn t kopenheffer s only target. it looks as if based on that plan he planned on killing harry weiner after retrieving the ransom.
shock. i felt i felt guilty and helpless. she was executed. the killer used a glaser type bullet that exploded on impact, making it impossible to determine the weapon s caliber. next, the fbi analyzed the ransom notes. all were typed with a computer word processer program, and all were printed with the same font. on one note the word exactly was misspelled. investigators got their first real break in the case from a police officer who was walking in the shopping center near harry weiner s bank. he noticed a sign in a bookstore window listing the sunday
officer. he got into the car and laid down in the back seat of the car with a .12 gauge shotgun. when harry arrived at the railroad bridge, no one was there. so he waited with the sharp shooter in the backseat. and with fbi agents hiding in the woods nearby. you just sit there very quietly. you don t move and you listen. and you listen for any kind of footstep, any kind of noise, hoping that he might contact us. but thinking that he s probably within 100 yards of us watching with a rifle. after waiting for several hours, the fbi agents told harry to go home and await further word there. the next day at sunrise, the fbi performed a grid search of the drop site. and near the railroad underpass they found a second ransom note attached to a metal rod with a
call, because there s no interaction between harry and sally. he s trying to talk to her and she s not responding. she just continues to talk. she had to read that if her husband didn t come up with the money, why, they d cut off her hands. she told him in detail that she was being held and these people were dangerous and they were going to kill her if he didn t provide the money. sally told him there was a bag under his car with instructions that he was to follow exactly or she would be killed. the ransom note told harry to fill the gym bag with all of the money from his bank s vault and drive to a deserted bridge ten miles out of town to await further instructions. harry immediately contacted the local police and fbi. they told him to drive to the back of the police station and pick up a law enforcement
president, had been kidnapped and held for ransom. investigators learned that neither sally nor her husband harry had any known enemies. you can count on just a couple fingers the number of cases that you see where a bank employee s family member is abducted in exchange for financial gain. it just is not a common crime. police found sally s car near a church not far from her husband s bank. her car is left in that parking lot. the windows are up and the doors are locked. so there s no sign of a struggle in any respect. all day saturday, which was the day after the kidnapping, there was no further communication from the kidnappers. but on sunday, sally s body was discovered by a farmer working his land a few miles outside of town. she had been killed by a single gunshot wound to the head. i just i remember being in