He was charged with homicide after authorities concluded that Stoltzfoos was deceased due to her disappearance and the passage of time. Smoker was initially charged with kidnapping and false imprisonment. Prosecutors say that DNA "attributable to Smoker" was found on one of Stoltzfoos' buried stockings, according to The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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Police found articles of clothing belonging to Stoltzfoos and a zip tie buried near a business where what they say the same car was later spotted.
Smoker became a person of interest in the case after multiple reports of an Amish woman spotted in a car similar to one owned by him.Īuthorities say that surveillance video taken by a homeowner on the day of the disappearance showed a car suspected of being Smoker's approach a woman believed to be Stoltzfoos, with a man seen abducting the woman on foot soon after. Justo Smoker, 35, was charged with Stoltzfoos' murder in December 2020, about six months after she went missing. Law enforcement agencies and local volunteer groups had spent more than 15,000 hours combined while searching for Stoltzfoos' remains over the course of almost 10 months.įamily members filed a missing person report one day after Stoltzfoos was last walking to her Upper Leacock Township home after leaving church.īuggies are seen parked at an Amish farm in this photo taken in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on September 13, 2011. The Lancaster County Coroner's Office was called to the scene after the remains were discovered by members of the FBI, the East Lampeter Township Police Department and the Pennsylvania State Police, according to a news release from the Lancaster County District Attorney's Office. It's not the news we wanted, but progress is moving forward to bring Linda to rest," Mervin Fisher, Stoltzfoos' uncle, told Lancaster Online. Based on the book Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo, An Amish Murder tells the story of Kate Burkholder (Neve Campbell), a woman who grew up Amish and, after returning to her small hometown as its Chief of Police, must solve a string of horrible murders.
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The Stoltzfoos family confirmed to multiple local media outlets that they had identified remains that investigators discovered in a rural part of eastern Lancaster County as belonging to Linda, who was 18 years old at the time she went missing. Neve Campbell is set to star in An Amish Murder, a TV movie that Lifetime may into an original series should the movie do wellsimilar to the network’s The Client List. Certain she's come to terms with her past, Kate's renewed life in her hometown is shattered when a murder investigation triggers deep-seated emotions from her childhood and exposes a dark secret that could destroy her.The family of Linda Stoltzfoos, an Amish teenager who disappeared in Pennsylvania on June 21, 2020, reportedly confirmed that her remains had been recovered on Wednesday. Fifteen years later, Kate returns to Painter's Mill as its Chief of Police. Among the most affected by the tragedy was Kate Burkholder (Campbell), a young girl who survived the terror and, as a result, left the Amish life behind. In An Amish Murder, the peaceful Amish farming community of Painter's Mill, Ohio, is shattered when a series of brutal murders leaves the town with a sense of frailty and loss of innocence. The movie also stars Neve's brother Christian Campbell (Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical, Trick), Noam Jenkins (Rookie Blue, Saw II) and C.Thomas Howell (E.T. Based on the book Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo, An Amish Murder tells the story of a woman who grew up Amish and, after returning to her small hometown as its Chief of Police, must solve a string of horrible murders. (from Lifetime's press release, December 2012) Neve Campbell (Scream, Party of Five) stars in the Lifetime Original Movie An Amish Murder (fka Sworn to Silence), premiering on Sunday, January 6, at 9:00PM ET/PT. Neve Campbell will star in the project, based on the book by Linda Castillo. Lifetime Greenlights Two Hour Original Movie-Backdoor Pilot "Sworn to Silence"
Updates include: Kathleen York, Cybill Shepherd report to Lifetime's "The Client List" Sophia Schloss is NBC's "Isabel" and Spike Feresten lands new comedy at the Peacock. Lifetime Original Movie "An Amish Murder," Starring Neve Campbell, to Premiere January 6Ĭhristian Campbell, Noam Jenkins and C.Thomas Howell also star in the film, based on the novel "Sworn to Silence" by Linda Castillo.
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