The Daily Intelligencer
Thursday, Dec 19th 1985
Doylestown PA
........After Greenwald decided to plead guilty, prosecutors tried unsuccessfully to obtain information from him concerning Tracy's disappearance, Jennings said.
" We were hoping we could get answers to a lot of questions," Jennings said "He admitted to nothing."
Jennings said Greenwald did not disclose a motive for killing Byrd. At the time of her disappearance, friends said she had seperated from him and grown fearful of him.
Two years before the murder, Greenwald pleaded guilty in Bucks County Court to kidnapping and assaulting Byrd in an incident that began in a Middletown apartment where she was staying with another man.
Greenwald stabbed the man with a knife, abducted Byrd and led police on a high-speed car chase into Trenton, where he was captured, according to police and court records.
Byrd, however, spoke in defense of Greenwald at his sentencing in that case, influencing Presideng Judge Isaac S. garb to sentence him to five years probation, said Robert Goldman, chief deputy district attorney, who handled the case.
"She spoke up to mitigate the facts" Goldman said "She made excuses for his actions. We didn't agree to probation. I'm sure the judge's sentencing was based in part on what Jean Byrd said about Greenwald."
Goldman said he saw the Byrd tragedy as a classic example of "battered woman syndrome."
Thursday, Dec 19th 1985
Doylestown PA
........After Greenwald decided to plead guilty, prosecutors tried unsuccessfully to obtain information from him concerning Tracy's disappearance, Jennings said.
" We were hoping we could get answers to a lot of questions," Jennings said "He admitted to nothing."
Jennings said Greenwald did not disclose a motive for killing Byrd. At the time of her disappearance, friends said she had seperated from him and grown fearful of him.
Two years before the murder, Greenwald pleaded guilty in Bucks County Court to kidnapping and assaulting Byrd in an incident that began in a Middletown apartment where she was staying with another man.
Greenwald stabbed the man with a knife, abducted Byrd and led police on a high-speed car chase into Trenton, where he was captured, according to police and court records.
Byrd, however, spoke in defense of Greenwald at his sentencing in that case, influencing Presideng Judge Isaac S. garb to sentence him to five years probation, said Robert Goldman, chief deputy district attorney, who handled the case.
"She spoke up to mitigate the facts" Goldman said "She made excuses for his actions. We didn't agree to probation. I'm sure the judge's sentencing was based in part on what Jean Byrd said about Greenwald."
Goldman said he saw the Byrd tragedy as a classic example of "battered woman syndrome."