about myself, to appreciate the people that i have in my life because they could be gone tomorrow. and that has given me so much more than i had before this happened. >>> in august of 1986, betty wolsieffer, a 32-year-old housewife and mother, was strangled and murdered by an assailant who had broken into her home. her husband, dr. glen wolsieffer, 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 wolsieffer was dead, too. some say because of what he learned about the intruder. glen and betty wolsieffer had

around 6:00 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 glen regained consciousness, he phoned his brother. >> neil, it's me. get over here. come on. >> things like that just didn't happen in wilkes-barre. a very nice woman getting killed in her own home did not make sense to a lot of people. >> glen wolsieffer 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

learned about the intruder. glen and betty wolsieffer 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 glen's side, came from very well-established influential families within the community, very well liked by all of the community. betty and glen were childhood sweethearts. they went through high school together. >> glen wolsieffer went on to dental school, later married betty, and after graduation the couple returned to their hometown of wilkes-barre, pennsylvania to set up practice. the wolsieffers bought a home on birch street, just a few houses away from glen'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. they just grew up together like that. they lived near each other. they were inseparable, he and