Ex-con is charged w/serially killing 2 gals in the 1980's,is suspect in other unsolved killings of gals,in PA
Joe1orbit
Hello,
Over in Pennsylvania, police are trying to figure out whether a 34 year old
fellow named Anthony Fiebiger might be a serial killer of women. Police say
they are very confident that Anthony has killed at LEAST two gals, aged 16 and
53. Quite an age spread there! He killed the 16 year old girl back in 1982,
when he himself was only 18 years old. He strangled and stabbed this girl to
death. Seven years later, in 1989, he strangled 53 year old Norma Parker,
described as a '"former girlfriend" of his, despite her advanced age, to death
as well. Anthony has CONFESSED to killing 53 year old Norma. It's not clear
whether he is also indicating/admitting to the 1982 murder. But police and
detectives say that they are now ACTIVELY exploring the possibility that
Anthony may have killed additional women over the years. We learn that there
are at least unsolved murders of young women in the immediate area that occured
in recent years, that detectives are at least looking at, and trying to see if
they can link Anthony to any of them.
Anthony does have a rather extensive criminal record, and has spent about 6
years of his adult life in prison, beginning back in 1986. His most violent act
that he was convicted for was in 1986, on an aggravated assault charge. He also
engaged in non-violent crime, specifically counterfeiting, for which he served
2+ years in prison, beginning in 1991. His 1986 assault is most interesting.
This assault, on a 28 year old woman, occured after he had already committed
his first murder, in 1982. In the assault, he beat the woman in the head with a
chair leg, BIT off the top portion of one of her EARS, bit her on the neck and
nose, tried to strangle her with a belt, then tried to rape her. But he did not
succeed in killing her, if in fact that was his intention. He only served 5
months in prison for this vicious assault, but 3 years later he violated his
parole in CONNECTION with this assault case, and was sent back to prison. I
wonder whether Vincent actually went after this SAME victim, in his parole
violation?
34 year old Vincent is a high school dropout, who later did earn a General
Equivalency Diploma. Hey, at least he and I have that factual aspect of our
Life Experiences in common. Vincent's Mommy threw him out of the house where
they lived together on Mother's Day of 1986, because she believed him to be a
drug addict, according to her neighbors. Vincent moved to a different city
after being thrown out, and apparently has had little contact with her since
then. His former jailer and a former employer both have rather nice things to
say about Anthony.
The manager of a printing company that employed Anthony for about a year, in
between his jail stints, wrote to the court after Anthony got arrested &
convicted, stating: "Tony is likable, motivated and a responsible person, has
never caused us or his fellow employees any problems and we and his fellow
employees miss him. I plead with you to release him so he can return to work
and society. He is a valuable employee and an asset to this company." Cool! Who
said you can't be a serial killer and still perform well as an employee? But
guess what? After being released from prison and going back to work for this
same printing company, the manager of which had given him such a glowing
endorsement, Anthony was caught RED-HANDED, making counterfeir $20 bills on the
printing press machines! Ha! It's so cool when an anti-social predator managed
to win the trust of you Naive Normals. You are so willing to trust your fellow
humans, even convicted ex-cons! It just amazes me, since I could never trust
ANY human being under any circumstances, not even a harmless & helpless 100
year old woman.
Recent neighbors who lived in the same building as Anthony did, paint a
slightly different portrait of our double murderer/possible serial killer. They
say that he was a somewhat frightening man, who was loud and behaved
erratically and even used to punch holes in the hallway walls of the building
with his fists.
It is not clear exactly how authorities discovered or identified Anthony as a
suspect in these 2 killings. He was arrested about 10 days ago. He has now
admitted to one of the 2 killings that he's charged with, but I do not know
whether he went to the police and confessed, resulting in his arrest, or if he
only confessed AFTER being arrested & charged with the killing.
Take care, JOE
The following appears courtesy of the 6/5/98 online edition of The Pittsburgh
Post-Dispatch newspaper:
Confessed killer seen as paradox
Friday, June 05, 1998
By Lawrence Walsh, Post-Gazette Staff Writer
By some accounts, Anthony J. Fiebiger is a quiet, shy person with an artistic
bent who doesn't have much to say.
By other accounts, he is a loud, aggressive, nasty person to be avoided at all
costs.
By his own account, he is a killer.
But just how many people has he killed?
At least two, said city and county homicide detectives, who are working with
regional, state and federal law enforcement agencies to find out if there are
any more victims.
City homicide detectives arrested Fiebiger on May 27 in the 1982 strangulation
and stabbing death of Marcia Jones, 16, of Mount Washington.
And county homicide detectives charged Fiebiger on May 23 with the 1989
strangulation death of a former girlfriend, Norma Parker, 53, of Carnegie.
City and county detectives declined to identify or comment on the unsolved
killings they are reviewing since Fiebiger confessed to killing Parker. But
three cases that have stymied them in recent years:
Catherine Corkery, 22, of Dormont, was killed about 2 a.m. July 22, 1989. Her
body, which had been beaten, strangled, slashed, sexually assaulted and burned,
was found in the back yard of a house on Voelkel Avenue near the light rail
transit tracks in Dormont, several blocks from her home. She was on her way
home from a party in Mt. Lebanon.
Faye M. Jackson, 24, of Garfield, who had been arrested twice for prostitution,
was last reported seen Oct. 10, 1994. Three days later, her severed legs and a
severed arm were recovered from Abers Creek near Route 286 in Monroeville. She
was identified by her fingerprints.
Sandra Katterson Lubbert, 36, of Brighton Heights, was last seen July 16, 1996,
when she closed the Crossings Bar & Grill in Leetsdale, where she worked. Two
fisherman found her skull Jan. 28 in a creek near Dutch Fork Lake in Donegal,
Washington County. On March 19, a team of anthropology students found more
remains in the same general area.
Fiebiger isn't considered a suspect in any killings that occurred between May
and October 1986, when he was serving time in the Allegheny County Jail for
aggravated assault; from Oct. 3, 1989, to Jan. 9, 1991, for an unknown parole
violation in connection with that case; and from Nov. 19, 1991, and Jan. 14,
1994, when he was sentenced to a federal prison in Texas for counterfeiting.
He pleaded guilty in September 1986 to aggravated assault after the district
attorney's office agreed to drop a charge of attempted rape in connection with
Fiebiger's savage attack on a 28-year-old Pittsburgh woman on May 12, 1986.
Common Pleas Court records said he struck her in the head at least three times
with a chair leg, bit off the top of her right ear, bit her neck and nose, and
tried to strangle her with a belt.
Until he confessed to killing Parker, that was the most serious crime he had
committed, according to court records.
In 1984, he was arrested for theft and receiving stolen goods, both third
degree felonies. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to one year's probation by
Common Pleas Judge Robert P. Horgos.
In 1989, he was arrested for retail theft. He pleaded guilty and Common Pleas
Judge George H. Ross ordered him to pay an undetermined amount of fines and
costs. Charges of simple assault and criminal conspiracy were dismissed.
Fiebiger, 34, of Brookline, was born in Wilkinsburg and raised on Mount
Washington. He attended South High School but didn't finish. Common Pleas Court
records indicate he earned a general equivalency degree, which is tantamount to
a high-school diploma.
His former neighbors on Mount Washington said they hadn't seen him since his
mother, Marlene, threw him out of the house on Mother's Day 1986 because she
believed he was a drug addict. The neighbors said the Fiebiger they knew pretty
much kept to himself and had little to say.
In a Sept. 28, 1990, letter to Horgos, former County Jail Warden Charles J.
Kozakiewicz described Fiebiger as a "model resident" who had been selected to
work in the kitchen, a "position of trust" in which he had "proven himself to
be earnest and reliable."
Kozakiewicz, who misspelled Fiebiger's name throughout the letter, said
Fiebiger had "demonstrated a considerable degree of respect and
cooperativeness" for staff members and inmates.
Rodney A. Herrmann, then the general manager of Herrmann Printing & Litho Inc.
of Homewood, also put in a good word for Fiebiger.
In a Sept. 27, 1990, letter to Horgos, Herrmann said Fiebiger had been a
"valuable employee" and "an asset" to the company from Oct. 10, 1988 until he
was sent back to jail Oct. 3, 1989.
"Tony is likable, motivated and a responsible person, has never caused us or
his fellow employees any ... problems and we and his fellow employees miss him.
I plead with you to release him so he can return to work and society."
On Jan. 9, 1991, Horgos released Fiebiger from the county jail and ordered him
to serve the balance of his sentence at The ARC House, an alcoholic recovery
center on the North Side.
Four months later, the operator of a now-defunct Downtown commercial printing
business dropped by his building on Memorial Day and caught Fiebiger making $20
bills. He pleaded guilty and was back behind bars that November, this time in
Big Springs, Texas.
His quiet demeanor changed dramatically by the time he moved into an apartment
building along Brookline Boulevard in Brookline, former neighbors said.
They said Fiebiger was loud and abusive, a man who punched fist-sized holes in
the plasterboard hallway walls and a man whose erratic behavior frightened his
neighbors.