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In August of 1986, Betty Woolsifer, a 32-year-old housewife and mother, was strangled and murdered by an assailant who had broken into her home.

Her husband, Dr.

Glenn Woolsifer, was also strangled and knocked unconscious, but survived the attack.

His younger brother, Neil, lived right across the street.

and was the first to arrive at the scene.

A few months later, Neil Woolsifer was dead too.

Some say because of what he learned about the intruder.

Glenn and Betty Woolsifer had been married for nine years.

It was a romance that had begun 20 years earlier.

The family, both on Betty's side and on Glenn's side, came from very well-established, influential families within the community, very well liked by all of the community.

Betty and Glenn were childhood sweethearts.

They went through high school together.

Glenn Woolsifer went on to dental school, later married Betty, and after graduation, the couple returned to their hometown of Wiltsboro, Pennsylvania to set up practice.

The Woolsifers bought a home on Burt Street, just a few houses away from Glenn's younger brother, Neil.

The two brothers were unusually close.

They were almost like twins.

They very rarely did things apart.

They were really big into sports, and

they just grew up together like that, and they lived near each other, and they were inseparable, he and his brother.

And when Glenn and Betty gave birth to a daughter, Danielle, their life together seemed perfect.

But tragedy struck.

On Saturday morning, August 30th, 1986, just after dawn, Glenn Wolsifer called his younger brother Neil, telling him that an intruder had broken into his home.

Neil ran across the street to Glenn's home, and when he saw that Glenn had been assaulted, Neil phoned police.

When police arrived, Glenn Wolsifer was downstairs on the floor, fading in and out of consciousness.

Upstairs had been ransacked.

Furniture was overturned, Desk drawers emptied.

One of the officers then went upstairs, found his daughter, who was still sleeping in her bedroom, five-year-old, and then went into the

Wolzifer's bedroom and found Betty laying on the floor, and she was dead at that time.

Betty Woltsifer's body was on the floor next to the bed.

There were abrasions around her neck, and her face showed signs of a severe beating.

It was obvious that it was a homicide because of the marks around her neck and the

you could see it was a vicious attack upon this woman.

My father had told me that Betty was murdered and they were the specific words.

How or what had happened, I didn't know, but that just took me totally by surprise, of course.

And so many things go through your head, you just You can't even sort them out.

It appeared that the intruder climbed a ladder to the roof over the back porch and entered through a second-story window.

The window screen had been removed and placed on the roof.

Glenn Wolsifer told police that he was asleep when he heard a loud noise in the back of his house around 6 a.m.

He said he grabbed his gun and saw a masked intruder running down the stairs and he followed him.

The intruder surprised him from behind, strangled him with a belt and knocked him unconscious with a blow to his head.

Sometime later, when Glenn regained consciousness, he phoned his brother.

No, it's me.

Get over here.

Things like that just didn't happen in Wilkesbury.

A very nice woman getting killed in her own home did not make sense to a lot of people.

Glenn Wilsifer told police that $1,300 in cash was missing from his desk in the study, and some gold and diamond jewelry and a house key were also missing.

But police noticed something suspicious.

The phone in the kitchen was hanging off the hook.

Police wondered if the victim's brother Neil had simply forgotten to hang up the phone after calling police, or whether it was evidence of crime scene staging.

The news of Betty Woolsifer's murder and the assault on her husband Glenn stunned the small industrial community of Wilkesborough, Pennsylvania.

Dr.

Glenn Woolsifer was a successful dentist in town.

His wife, an active volunteer for many local charities, neither had any known enemies.

Police acknowledged that there had been a number of recent burglaries in the Woolsifer's neighborhood.

Since $1,300 in cash and some jewelry was missing from the Woolsifer's home, robbery was a possible motive.

It appeared that the intruder used a ladder the Woolsifers stored on the side of their house to gain entrance through an open second-story window.

A partial palm print was discovered on the inside of the windowsill, which did not match anyone in the family or the police.

The autopsy on Betty Woosifer was performed by Luzerne County coroner Dr.

George Hudock, who found no evidence of sexual assault.

The cause of death was strangulation, which would take from three to five minutes.

During that time, it was obvious to Dr.

Hudock that there had been a fierce life and death struggle.

I believe that she really fought back with fury and that she inflicted some injuries on whoever assailed her.

Blue fibers and a small speck of blood found under Betty's fingernails confirmed that she had been in close contact with her killer.

But Dr.

Hudock noticed something unusual.

Despite a severe beating, there was no blood on Betty Wolsefer's nightgown and very little blood on her face.

That was the outstanding thing that imprinted itself on my brain when we saw the body.

You didn't have to be a trained forensic pathologist to recognize it.

There was something suspicious there.

It appeared that after killing Betty Woolsifer, the killer had washed her face and changed her nightgown.

Police searched for her bloody clothing in the house, the surrounding neighborhood, and the nearby Susquehanna River without success.

Since the body was lying in front of the fan, time of death was difficult to gauge.

But Dr.

Hudock estimated that Betty Woolsifer had been murdered between 2.30 and 4.30 in the morning, two to four hours before Glenn said he heard the intruder.

And there was another inconsistency.

Doctors at Mercy Hospital noticed injuries on the back of Glenn Woolsifer's neck, even though he said he was strangled from behind.

It just could not happen that way.

The only way you could get that injury to the back of your neck is as somebody pulled from the front.

Friends told investigators that Glenn often wore a gold chain around his neck.

If he was involved with a fight with his wife where his wife would have been say in the bed underneath him and he was on top of her in that position, he would have sustained those type of injuries from that piece of jewelry.

That type of force would have damaged the splenus capitus muscles.

Two long muscles which support the head.

The same injury emergency room doctors diagnosed in Glenn Wilsifer after his wife's murder.

When investigators dug a little deeper into Glenn Wilsifer's dental practice, they discovered his relationship with his dental assistant was more personal than business.

The two had been carrying on an affair for five years.

She told investigators that she expected Glenn to leave his wife for her.

But she realized that wouldn't happen when she discovered that Glenn was carrying on another affair with an aerobics instructor in town.

From motel receipts, police learned that Glenn would sometimes have trysts with both women on the same day before going home to his wife.

And police wanted to know why Glenn's younger brother, Neil, failed to go upstairs to check on his brother's wife and child while he waited for the police to arrive.

While on his way to the district attorney's office to answer that very question, Neil made a decision that would change the course of the investigation.

When homicide investigators learned that Betty Wolsefer's body had been washed and her clothes changed after the murder, they looked a little closer at the statements Glenn and his younger brother Neil both gave to police.

On the night of the murder, Glenn Woolsifer said he was out with friends at a local nightclub and drove home around 2.30.

He said that he went right to bed and slept until dawn when he heard the intruder and went downstairs to investigate.

But the police video taken on the morning of the murder shows that Glenn Wolsifer's car in the driveway was not covered with dew, yet his wife's car was.

To help sort out the discrepancy, police called in a forensic meteorologist, Dr.

Joseph Sobel, who studied the weather patterns on the night of the murder.

Dew is moisture, it's condensation that actually forms on the object we're talking about, whether it be a blade of grass or a rooftop or a car top or any object that happens to be outside during that time.

The temperature on the afternoon of the murder was 70 degrees, so the dew point temperature, the point when water in the air becomes cold enough to change from a gas to a liquid, producing dew, would have occurred when the temperature reached 50 degrees.

We know the night was clear.

Surface weather observations showed us that.

We know it was very cool, so that the temperature was able to drop considerably, and we know that there was little or no wind.

The temperature hit 50 degrees at 11 p.m.

Glenn Woolsifer said he drove home at 2.30 in the morning, yet there was no dew on his car when police arrived at 7 a.m.

If he had driven home at 2.30 in the morning, Glenn's car would have had the same amount of dew as his wife's car.

The lack of dew meant that someone had driven Glenn Wilsifer's car sometime after Glenn returned home from the nightclub at 2.30 and before police arrived at 7 a.m., evaporating the dew that had been present.

And the same dew points produced dew on the Wolsefer's roof, yet there were no foot or handprints in the dew on the roof when police arrived.

When police looked more closely at the ladder, they discovered it had been placed up to the roof backwards, with the steps facing in the opposite direction.

The partial palm print found on the windowsill could not be identified, potentially corroborating Glenn's story about an intruder.

Police were also investigating what connection, if any, Glenn's younger brother Neil may have had to the murder.

He was the first one to arrive at the scene and was the one that called the police.

But when police arrived, the phone was off the hook hanging from the wall unit.

Police were also suspicious of Neil's behavior.

He admitted that he did not go upstairs to check on Glenn's wife and five-year-old daughter, Danielle, before police arrived.

Neil Wolcifert denied any involvement in the crime, but when asked to take a lie detector test, he refused.

A lot of people think that Neil knew everything.

That when he came in the house, that Glenn told him what happened and said, you have to help me.

We have to concoct a story.

There's people that even think that Neil may have been the one that knocked Glenn on the head.

Then there's the other school that think that Neil suspected, and he just kept putting two and two together and things that Glenn may have said to him, and just the very thought was too much for him to bear.

Neil was asked to report to the district attorney's office for an interview.

He went past the time that he was supposed to arrive, and Gary Swarn left the room, and he came back in, and he says,

Neil Wolsifer's dead.

He passed the courthouse.

He drove about another five miles, and that

his car swerved in front of a dump truck, and he was killed instantly.

Investigators could find no skid marks.

It appeared that Neil Wolcifer intentionally turned in front of an oncoming truck.

The coroner ruled the death a suicide.

And what Neil Woolsefer may have known about the murder went with him to his grave.

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With Dr.

Glenn Wilsifer as the prime suspect in his wife's murder, police discovered that the all-American image he presented to the public was just that, an image.

Before her death, Betty Woolsifer told friends that she knew all about her husband's affairs with the aerobics instructor and his dental assistant and that she had had enough.

We found out from some of Betty's girlfriends that she was very annoyed with some of these things that were happening, very annoyed with him going out at nights and not coming in until all hours of the morning.

And some of the girlfriends even made comments to her, well, maybe you should confront him, maybe you should ask him what's going on.

To see if there was any evidence of a physical confrontation between Glenn and his wife, FBI analyst Doug Dietrich analyzed the debris under Betty Woolsifer's fingernails.

There he found a number of blue cotton denim fibers.

Using microspectrophotometry, Dietrich analyzed the spectrum of color in the dye of those fibers and concluded that the dye was consistent with the dye used in the denim shirt and jeans that Glenn Woolsifer was seen wearing at the nightclub just hours before his wife's murder.

Finally, Dietrich analyzed several head hairs on the bedspread next to Betty Woolsifer's body.

The hairs had been forcibly removed and were compared to hair samples from Glenn Woolsifer.

From the laboratory standpoint, the hairs that were forcibly removed on the bedding were consistent with the husband.

I looked at other hairs that were recovered from the bedding and from the towels, and there were no hairs out of place.

I mean, the hairs that I found were consistent with people that lived in that house.

On November 5th, 1990, Glenn Wolsifer was charged with first-degree murder.

He pleaded not guilty.

Prosecutors stated that on the afternoon before the murder, Glenn met his dental assistant for a sexual encounter.

A few hours later, Glenn saw his other mistress at a local nightclub.

He may have been hoping to have sex with her, too, but her husband was there.

Glenn drove home around 2.30 in the morning,

and Betty may have confronted Glenn over his sexual liaisons.

The argument turned violent on him.

As she fought for her life, Betty pulled Glenn's hair, clutched hutched and grabbed his shirt, and caused the injury to his neck by forcibly pulling on his jewelry.

After the murder, Glenn removed his wife's bloody nightgown and washed her body in what was probably a psychological attempt to mask his guilt over what had occurred.

Prosecutors believe that Glenn used his car to dispose of the bloody clothing, which evaporated the dew.

When he returned, he staged the crime scene by placing the ladder up to the back of his house.

But he made a mistake and propped it up backwards.

He also removed the window screen and ransacked some of the rooms.

The telephone receiver found off the hook was either a mistake made during the staging of the crime scene, or Neil Wolcifer simply forgot to hang up the telephone after calling police.

The jury had to choose between Glenn Wolsifer's intruder intruder story and the circumstantial case put forward by prosecutors.

And amid the discrepancies in Glenn Wilsifer's story, one fact stood out.

After an alleged life and death struggle with an intruder, neither Glenn or his brother, Neil, ever went upstairs to check on Betty Wilsifer or five-year-old Danielle before the police arrived.

Glenn Wilsifer was found guilty of third-degree murder and was sentenced to eight to 20 years in prison.

The death of my sister, it's the hurt on behalf of both families,

very close friends and friends, and people in the community in general.

Benjamin Franklin once said, three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.

That might have been true in this case, had it not been for the role of science.

When I go out to talk to people about forensic meteorology, I always talk about this case and I go through the whole scenario and the setup.

And

then I ask people, okay, so where's the weather connection?

You know, where does weather become involved?

And usually, all I get is a set of blank stares.

So to think about that and to tie it in and then to go get expert corroboration, I think was really a very, very good piece of police and detective work.