according to detective steckman, michael george said he would hire an attorney. lawyer up. >> he'd stop talking. >> exactly. >> this is a big, unsolved case? >> yes. yes. how much frustration is building with the family? >> what can you do? can't take -- you can take the law into your own hands, but what's going to happen with that? >> did you ever talk about it? >> i felt it. there was times i felt, you know, that i should do something, but, you know, i'm a i couldn't live with it. >> in the comics, superheroes are ageless, but the comic are ageless, but the comic book shop in the clinton strip mall wasn't. it closed its doors in 1992. michael george, the shop owner and his new wife renee had moved from town. they settled some 375 miles southeast of detroit in windberg, pa, population 4,000. an old coal mining town. on the main drag there, the georges had opened their new shop, comics world. >> with his two kids and renee's five being raised together in their spacious new home they found friends among the other parents involved in their kids sports teams. >> mic

it was joe's sister and it was steckman to make sense of the senseless. he'd been the investigator on duty when the hospital called that they'd had a woman come in with a single gunshot to the head. >> now we had a full-blown homicide. >> you know it's going to be a long night. >> yes. >> as the detective's team scoured the strip mall dumpsters for maybe a tossed weapon, clothing, something, he turned over the few facts he had so far. a woman with children gunned down execution style in the back of the little comic bookstore, police interviewed merchants and customers at the mall, had anyone seen anything out of the ordinary? it turned out tom and lenora ward did, the couple who had given barb first aid, and picked up on something when they arrived, a speeding car in front of the comic bookshop. and we both thought to ourselves, that car is going too fast. >> later, they wondered if that was the getaway car, but another observation tugged at them, who was the guy lurking outside the comic bookshop? that time of the year, a greek fisherman's cap is how i w

just after 8:00, detective steckman was told that the husband of the victim had just >> he identified himself and he said what's going on? we said well, there's been an incident here and we're sorry to tell you, but your wife has been injured. >> injured, not dead. >> we never told him what happened to her. >> he doesn't know what happened to his wife. >> to our knowledge we had no idea what was going on. you have to go over to the hospital because your wife is seriously injured. >> at the hospital, michael george was informed that his wife had died of a gun shot wound to the head. a few minutes later, mary and his brother-in-law joe came rushing in. the girlfriend was undone by the awful news. >> i'm blown away in shock. i wasn't even related to her, and i was devastated and i was crying and i was upset. >> but there was someone that didn't seem as upset as mary was, the new widower, michael george. why was she so suspicious of the comic book man? an untroubled husband with a very troubled marriage. >> we started receiving phone relationship with his employee >> real cozy. you checke

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