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Lawyers for the Pittsburgh synagogue killer want his father’s corpse dug up so they can prove paternity.
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Lawyers for the Pittsburgh synagogue killer want his father’s corpse dug up so they can prove paternity.
Naomi Grimm never met her second cousin, Robert Bowers. She never even knew he existed until after he killed 11 people at a Squirrel Hill synagogue in 2018. Still, Grimm, a home health aide from Ohio, testified for the defense on Monday, recounting for the jury a pervasive family history
The first witness for the defense was Dr. Katherine Porterfield, who testified that Bowers showed signs of early, serious mental illness and emotional problems.
They were grandparents and siblings, children and spouses. They were doctors and dentists, nurses and accountants. They were 11 people who were supposed to be safe in a place that they loved. Last week marked the start of the final, sentence-­selection phase in the trial of Robert G. Bowers, 50,
A clinical psychologist called by the defense Thursday in the Pittsburgh synagogue gunman’s death penalty trial highlighted the defendant’s troubled childhood, noting the impact of trauma that put him at risk for mental illness.