At 10:30 p.m., Andrew reported his wife missing. Had a father the slightest inkling that a g/friend he would marry had murdered his child, unless a psycho he couldnt possibly be with her. Marcus, dont you find it interesting that a hair inconsistent with both the victim and the accused was found clutched in the dead womans HAND, and was never tested? So after a stressful afternoon of kidnapping and murder, she decides to relax with a nice soothing cigarette right there at the crime scene. Barry Grube, one of the few, if not only, police officers sympathetic to Patricias cause, noted that Andrew didnt seem particularly frantic while authorities searched desperately for his wife and son. Not gender neutral. And even prosecutor Michael McIntyre, who wrote the book Hair Trigger about the case, acknowledged to Keith Morrison that it was a little odd that the police found blood on the hairs in Joanns car but nowhere else in the vehicle. In April 1995, the family buried Joann and Alex in a single bronze casket after a funeral mass at a Bethlehem church. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. We found out that he was a real pervert, all kinds of sexual devices and various perverted stuff, District Attorney Bruce L. Castor Jr. told Forensic Files rather triumphantly. Andrew's annual salary is . Investigators discoveredhis DNA under Lisas fingernails, some strands of long dark hairwith the roots attached (suggesting a struggle) in the vacuum cleaner bag at the store, and the babys DNA on thecarpet. Criminals aren't always the smartest folks - this area highlights the common (and reoccurring) mistakes they make. There are more questions than answers in this case. How would an intruder find it? Testimony from Walter Blalock contradicted Patricias claim that she never had a gun. If it wasnt for the DNA, I would have had a hard time saying guilty, juror George James Gatanis, 42, of Salisbury Township told the Allentown Morning Call newspaper after the verdict. In TV clips, Andrew didnt come off as anguished. The jacket also fit the description of the blue-black synthetic fibers police found in Joann Katrinaks watchband.Neither witness testified during the trial because the prosecution deemed them unimportant and never revealed the information to the defense, despite legal rules compelling the government to disclose any potentially exculpatory evidence. "I guess she thought she wasn't going to get caught. And she would just call out of the blue., According to the Free Patricia Rorrer page on Facebook:I called him to let him know that I was going to the USA finals for a horse show. Again, this vital piece of evidence was never tested prior to trial. The relationship deteriorated, and she eventually moved out of the house, she said. She turned a flushed face and red nose away from the visitors' section.Her demeanor during testimony about her baby, who turned 2 last month, was far different from that during the rest of the Lehigh County trial.Earlier, she was dry-eyed as witnesses described the numerous wounds to Joann Katrinak, who had been shot and beaten, and the baby's death from exposure to cold or suffocation. DNA testing revealed the blood came from either Joann or her son. So, this pointed to a theory that Joann had either left on her own or encountered foul play within her home. Then 31 years old, she had lived a rocky existence. With 400 (and 6) episodes, this progress bar indicates my progress toward finishing all of them. Both sides agree Joann hung up on Patricia. She produced phone records showing a call to Andrew Katrinak two weeks before the abduction not three days before it to tell him she had won a national horse competition in Oklahoma. According to court papers from Patricia 2017 appeal, DNA on the cigarette butt found near the two bodies belonged to Appellant. (Prosecutor Michael McIntyre, however, told ForensicFilesNow.com that that the cigarette butt was never actually tested). But thats just some of the ammo on Team Patricias battleship. AWoman And Her Baby Walkinto a Trap A closer examination of the hairs showed traces of dried blood. Please research the Katrinak case a little when you have some time. After Joann Katrinak, the wife of Patricias former flame, turned up dead along with her infant son, prosecutors suspected Patricia. Whose hair is it?by Bridget DiCosmo Redacted from "Unreliable Chain: Questionable Hair Evidence Condemns Woman to Prison"Justice Volume One Published by Point Park University. The township invested an additional $50,000 for new equipment for the playground in 2012. Weak wages. Traupman claimed that when he reported the dispute, trooper Robert V. Egan III got mad and practically kicked him out of his office. Mal told Keith Morrison that Patricias dance teacher originally confirmed her alibi that she was in class on the day of the murder, then changed his mind. Four hours is a long time between Andrew getting home from work and calling the police. She had a suitcase packed, Devine said. But by all accounts, Rorrer only spoke to Andrew Katrinak once or twice a year. I dont have any reason to believe that Fairley might have been in the Catasauqua area in December of 1994. Tests show the hairs are definitely a woman's..Rorrer is a cunning woman who almost committed the perfect crime and thought she had outsmarted police, McIntyre said. Of course, its not if such forensic evidence that is or may have been exculpatory has been maladministered by accident or design. In general, I wouldnt be so hasty to assume a link between perverted, well, whatever it was he had in his possession, and criminality. "Like I said, we were still friends," Rorrer said.She testified that she had met a new man and was happy that Katrinak had found someone special. Police slowly built a case against Patricia. Fairley has not found prison life agreeable. But if Rorrer was a genuine suspect, it's likely investigators would have attempted the mitochondrial DNA match on the hair anyway. A CLUMP of hair would be more significant as if pulled out. Because it was parallel parked in a tight spot something his daughter was unable to do he concluded his daughter could not have put it there.While there was no trace of violence, police would find six hairs on the passenger headrest of the Corolla. Try to do some REAL digging into this case. 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 . At 10:40 p.m. he calls 911 to report his family missing. he asked her. Kidnapped and killed? Christopher Coble and Sgt. By all accounts, Rorrer has never been a smoker. Testimony began with her birth in January 1964 in Phillipsburg, N.J.She told jurors about the jobs she held, the men she dated, her involvement with horses, their training and competitions, and the different places she lived in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and North Carolina.Rorrer, dressed in a black suit and white blouse tied at the neck, cried once when she testified about being beaten by a former boyfriend in 1991. DNA TRAIL IN 2-YEAR-OLD SLAYINGS OF WOMAN, BABY LEAD TO ARRESTAssociated PressJun. Even though Joanne was supposed to take her mother-in-law for Christmas shopping, she never showed up. I also forgot to mention the fingernail evidence. Theres been some debate with regard to a picture of Rorrer shortly before the murders and the color of her hair.