![]() ![]() One safe found inside has never been opened and remains in evidence. Evidence photos showed that the house had been broken into and ransacked, and there were no drugs or cash found inside, he said. Trooper David Wineland testified that he took over as lead investigator on the case in 2019. Ream went there voluntarily and told investigators that he parked his work truck at Lang’s home on Maand went inside to buy drugs. He denied that using drugs at the time of the conversation affected his ability to understand what Ream said.Įric Mumau, a retired state trooper, said he interviewed Ream at the station in Greensburg hours after Lang’s body was found. Smartnick said he remembers Ream mentioning either ripping off a fingernail or breaking one of Lang’s fingers. An autopsy showed she had been beaten, her throat cut and a finger broken. She was found March 27, 2007, and troopers believed she died 24 hours earlier. Lang was killed at the home, described by police as a hub for drug activity, where her father lived. Her family listened to testimony Wednesday across a courtroom aisle from Ream’s family members. Troopers and Lang’s family have renewed efforts over the years to bring her killer to justice, seeking information from the public to help them an arrest. ![]() Ream was arrested by state police July 26, more than 16 years after she was found dead in the Route 982 house near the village known as Peanut. ![]() Homicide and robbery charges against Ream, 52, of Derry Township, were held for court during a 37-minute preliminary hearing in the March 2007 death of Lang, 22. “He told me ‘You better not tell anybody,’” said Smartnick, 39, of Greensburg. Smartnick testified during Ream’s preliminary hearing Wednesday that he recalled Ream saying “he ended up stabbing her and he didn’t get what he was looking for,” which Smartnick presumed meant drugs or cash. They were at a hotel in Monroeville sometime in 2009 or 2010 when Ream said he went to Samantha Lang’s Derry Township home in 2007. During one of their daily meetings to use drugs, Timothy Smartnick said Charles E. ![]()
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