CASEY CALLAHAN TRIAL: Day ONE Killing Intrigued Suspect, 2 Former Friends Testify By PARKER FISH • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Casey Callahan, on trial for murder in Otsego County Court, discussed with two friends why and how he would kill someone shortly before the 2000 death of his wife, the two testified this afternoon. “I’ve always wanted to know what it felt like” to kill someone, one witness, Joseph Keto, Oneonta, on the stand this afternoon, recalled hearing Callahan say.…
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CASEY CALLAHAN TRIAL: Day ONE Would Rig Driver Feel Tires Going Over Body? By PARKER FISH • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – As the prosecution’s first witness, truck driver George Borrowdale, recalled seeing Elizabeth Welsh Callahan next to the cab of husband Casey Callahan’s flatbed truck, bending down to tie her shoe. “I thought to myself ‘That’s a stupid place to tie a shoe,’” he said. Borrowdale said he was 50 feet from the scene of the accident, refueling his own…
AllOTSEGO.com EXCLUSIVE 17 YEARS LATER, HUSBAND TRIED IN DEATH OF WIFE Muehl, Maxson Deliver Opening Arguments As Otsego County Court Proceedings Start By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – District Attorney John Muehl didn’t mince words this morning in his opening statement in the murder trial of Casey Callahan, formerly of Goodyear Lake, now an Attica inmate. “I can kill someone and get away with it,” Muehl said. “I’d take somebody for a ride, stop at the Dandy…
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Worshippers Fill Front Lawn To Celebrate St. Mary’s 150th MORE PHOTOS IN THIS WEEK’S FREEMAN’S JOURNAL…
IN MEMORIAM: Robert ‘Bob’ Reisman, 81; Clark Gardener Donated 10 Gals. In Blood COOPERSTOWN – A few hours short of his 82nd birthday on Monday, April 10, 2017, Robert “Bob” Benedict Reisman passed peacefully on in the midst of an afternoon nap at the Marchand Manor home in Sharon Springs. On Thursday, Sept. 7, his life was remembered and celebrated at his family’s graveyard plot in Richfield Springs.…
MARIETTA: I NEVER HAD A CHANCE Election Board Employee Filed On Walker’s Behalf By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Republican Tim Walker never filed for the “I Love Otsego” independent ballot line, according to the Democratic incumbent, Andrew Marietta. “It was a Republican board of elections employee who brought them in and filed them,” he said in a text following yesterday’s state Supreme Court hearing on the matter. “The employee had access to the building far before…
OTSEGO NOW SELECTS CEO BY UNANIMOUS VOTE, ZAKREVSKY’S THE ONE READ ZAKREVSKY PROFILE IN THIS WEEK’S HOMETOWN ONEONTA, FREEMANS JOURNAL…
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MARIETTA VS. WALKER ARGUED Judge Grills Dem Lawyer At ‘I Love Otsego’ Hearing By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – State Supreme Court Judge Eugene D. Faughnan said he expects to make a decision by Monday on the dispute over the “I Love Otsego” ballot line between county Rep. Andrew Marietta, D-Cooperstown/Town of Otsego, and his Republican challenger Tim Walker. But at today’s hearing at the state Supreme Court here, he closely questioned Marietta’s lawyer, Dennis Laughlin, on…
