Pittsburgh Comicon organizer and comic book shop owner Michael George was found guilty of murdering his wife Barbara George in 1990 in the back room of their comic book shop. The jury found him not only guilty of first-degree murder, but insurance fraud.
I’m really kind of surprised by this. I’ve been following the case from the day the news broke that he had been arrested. As I’ve blogged earlier, Micheal used to own the comic book shop in nearby Scotland, PA. It’s located in the Chambersburg Mall and it’s where I buy my comics every week.
As more and more came out about the case, I was certain he was guilty.
I then read how his two daughter testified for him.
They were familiar with all the evidence, yet they still firmly believed in their father’s innocence. Who was I to question that? They knew about all the womanizing — and attempted womanizing — while he was married to their mother and all of the other sorted details that came out about their father. They still thought he was innocent of the murder of their mother.
All of the evidence against Michael George was circumstantial. That’s not to say someone cannot be found guilty with only circumstantial evidence. It happens all the time. This just seemed so surreal in the fact that it happened 17 years ago. No new evidence had come up.
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Mark Engblom
/ March 17, 2008Good…now promise me to never post his sorry mug shot again.
I wonder if he’ll have that same facial expression in prison?
Jesse Jace
/ March 18, 2008Give or take a grimace here and a wince there, yeah, I imagine so.
Rick
/ March 18, 2008Sorry about the repeated mug shot guys. I’ve been a lazy blogger. I’ve simply just pasted the code for the same image link in each of the posts.
I still can’t believe that he was found guilty. At the most, I thought they would convict him on insurance fraud. The claim that he had high-value comics stolen at the time of the murder.
I was willing to believe that he had murdered his wife until I read how his two girls testified on his behalf. They’ve read or heard all the same evidence that I’ve read or heard. They know the man better then anyone and they thought he was innocent of their mother’s murder. That carried a lot of weight with me.
kathy
/ March 18, 2008I cant believe he could do this. Was a real nice guy all through school.
Eldar
/ March 20, 2008The two girls who were 2 and 4 at that time? Hardly two of the most reliable witnesses.
Rick
/ March 20, 2008Eldar wrote:
No, but they’ve known him their entire lives. You would think that if they saw any signs over the many years they lived with him that he had it in him, they maybe wouldn’t have testified. It seemed to me from what I’ve read, they had absolutely no doubts in their minds that their father did not murder their mother.
Robert Anderson
/ May 10, 2008He is innocent- GW Bush did it
June
/ May 10, 2008Of course his daughters defended their father, they were raised with him and I’m sure they’ve been told of his innocence throughout the years. Not only by the murderer and his wife who I believe was in on it as well. It’s a form of brainwashing, their mom was murdered and they were stuck with those two. Wonder how well his girls fared with her 5 kids. Did she treat them equally? I doubt it, hers were the stars I’m sure, usually how it is.
Did the judge hand down his sentence does anyone know? I was called away tonight when it was on MSNTV before it ended. I’m dying of curiousity.
The jerk got what he deserved.