On September 15, 1995, she and Devon headed to Your Kidz &Mine, a new clothing store in the Collegeville Shopping Center, 10 minutes from her house in Limerick, Pennsylvania. If shes the killer, then she would know full well that the cigarette butt was hers and the DNA would match. . Image credit: Episode screen capture from, - Sarah OConnor: Joann Katrinaks Mother, - Det. For more on the Katrinak murder case, you can watch Autopsy Six: A Fatal Attraction for free on YouTube. Four months after Joanns disappearance, farmer Paul Kovalchik reported seeing what at first looked like a pile of clothes on his land in Heidelberg Township woods, about 15 miles from the Katrinaks house. McIntyre didn't address that issue in his closing argument..Burke said soil in the woods didn't match soil in and on the car and questioned why there was no blood in the car if the killer drove the car back to Catasauqua where it was found..He also wondered how the victims could have been kidnapped at gunpoint from their home at 740 Front St. in the afternoon without anyone seeing anything..Prosecutors claim that Rorrer planned the killing and even might have been in the area before Dec. 15, 1994. She also did volunteer work for Meals on Wheels. Find a typo or issue with the details of this case? Lists. The last 20 years of Patricia Rorrer's life have been a tale of failure, two brushes with the law and the death of her infant son.Rorrer, charged Tuesday with the 2-year-old murders of Joann Katrinak and Katrinak's infant son, moved back and forth from the Lehigh Valley and Linwood, N.C., since the late 1970s, leaving failed relationships, a spotty work record and arrests for shoplifting and cruelty to animals. They broke up in 1993. "At one point, Katrinak stayed in North Carolina for several weeks to do a roofing job, and it looked as though they might get back together, Rorrer said. Patricia had won a prize at an out-of-state horse-riding competition less than two weeks before the murders, and she allowed herself to be photographed. As for the words exchanged on the call between the two big-haired women, Joann told Andrew that Patricia had used profanity; Patricia said it was the other way around. A newspaper account described Patricia as a soft-spoken, demure woman who had a sweet Southern accent and wore feminine clothes in court. North America. After relocating to Pennsylvania, Patricia met the 6-foot-2-inch Andrew in a restaurant. I have the same profile but had no children. PUBLISHED: April 13, 1995 at 4:00 a.m. | UPDATED: October 3, 2021 at 11:51 p.m. Andrew Katrinak buried his wife and infant son yesterday, four months after he began a frantic, nationwide search . Andrew had an ex-girlfriend, Patricia Rorrer, who'd been familiar with the trail, and she'd previously managed a horse stable just a mile from the scene. Detective Barry Grube found it odd that Andrew fixed the severed phone line before police examined it in essence tampering with evidence. Together they had a baby girl, Nicole. More hairs there. While the newly discovered evidence was included in her appeal, it has always focused on the contradictory hair tests and wide gaps in paperwork on the chain of custody in hair evidence. But Patricia had moved from Pennsylvania years ago, and she'd started her own family in North Carolina. My two cents, just as the heavily stretched circumstantial evidence convicted Rorrer, new uncovered circumstantial and direct evidence should give Rorrer benefit of a doubt and allowed for a new hearing and trial. Possession/viewing of porn and sexual devices would condemn millions on the basis this is meant to! If Patricia drove it back from the murder scene after she shot Joann and then beat her to death, luminal would have lit up the interior.
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