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Despite Contradictions and Deception, Wilkinsburg Man Faces Life In Prison
By Bill Moushey and Bridget DiCosmo and Jodi Weigand
The Innocence Institute of Point Park University
After a jury forewoman rendered a first degree murder conviction against Steven Slutzker last night in a re-trial in the 1975 killing of John Mudd Sr. the man who faces life in prison for the second time cried …
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Ex-McKeesport couple testify convicted murderer was with them at time of slaying
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
By Bill Moushey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A former McKeesport couple's testimony that convicted murderer Steven Slutzker was passed out drunk in their home miles away from where his former girlfriend's husband was gunned down in 1975 was heard in court for the first time yesterday.
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Daughter, ex-tenant testify at retrial
Friday, January 19, 2007
By Bridget DiCosmo and Bill Moushey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
For parts of two days, Steven Slutzker's estranged daughter calmly provided circumstantial evidence implicating her father in the December 1975 murder of John Mudd Sr. of Wilkinsburg.
Amy …
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Thursday, January 18, 2007
By Bill Moushey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Murder suspect Steven Slutzker's estranged daughter told a jury yesterday that she watched her father remove a gun from an armoire and leave their bedroom on a wintry December 1975 night in Wilkinsburg.
When she heard gunshots outside, Amy Jo Musselman, then 6 years old, frantically searched for her father, as lights of …
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Accuser hedges testimony in Wilkinsburg flashback murder case
By Bridget DiCosmo and Bill Moushey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Contradicting his earlier testimony, John Mudd Jr. conceded yesterday that he knew his father had been murdered long before a supposed "repressed memory" episode struck him 15 years after the killing.
On Friday, Mr. Mudd, 36, who was 5 …
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
A North Braddock man whose conviction for a 1975 homicide was overturned should be immune from further prosecution, his attorneys argued in court yesterday.
A federal appeals court ordered a new trial for Steven Slutzker, 54, because prosecutors withheld some evidence and because a previous defense attorney did not call alibi witnesses to …
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Challenges Abound as Defense Begins in ‘Repressed Memory' Murder Trial
By Bill Moushey
Innocence Institute of Point Park University
A flurry of challenges to John Mudd Jr.’s contention that the first time he realized Steven Slutzker killed his father was during a slide show of flashbacks 15 years after the 1975 murder were mounted on the first day of defense testimony yesterday.
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By Bill Moushey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Friday, January 12, 2007
Thirty-one years after John Mudd Sr. was gunned down in his darkened basement and 16 years after his son says he had a flashback where he saw Steven Slutzker slay his dad, Mr. Slutzker went on trial for the second time.
During opening statements in Common Pleas Court yesterday, a jury of 10 women and two men heard Allegheny …
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By Bill Moushey
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
During his first trial in 1992, prosecutors contended after Steven Slutzker failed to find a hit man to slay his girlfriend’s abusive husband, he gunned down John Mudd Sr. in plain view of the his five year-old son – who would not remember it until he had a repressed memory episode 15 years later.
Mr. Slutzker claimed he had alibis to prove he …
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By Karen Kane, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Monday, January 08, 2007
A North Braddock man whose homicide conviction was overturned on appeal will be back in an Allegheny County courtroom today, facing a second trial in the 31-year-old case that pivots largely on the flashback testimony of the victim's son.
Jury selection was scheduled to begin this morning in the case against Steven Slutzker, …
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