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Office of the Attorney General - Criminal Homicide Charges

28 Jul
Monday @ 5:55 pm

As released by the Office of the Attorney General.

HARRISBURG - Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane today announced criminal homicide charges, as well as various charges related to a residential burglary and two separate house fires, against Columbia County murder victim Frank Spencer's ex-wife and -father-in-law.

Attorney General Kane said evidence and testimony from a joint cooperative investigation with the Pennsylvania State Police was presented to a statewide investigating grand jury, which recommended the criminal charges being filed today.

The defendants are identified as Maria Sanutti-Spencer, 49, 4096 Continental Drive Harrisburg, and her father Anthony Rocco Franklin, 72, address unknown. Franklin, a fugitive, is currently on state parole and a warrant has been issued for his arrest on a parole violation.

According to the grand jury, between 2009 and 2012 Sanutti-Spencer and Franklin engaged in a pattern of behavior that elicited fear and intimidation in Spencer, his family and friends. A series of connected crimes eventually led to the brutal execution-style murder of Frank Spencer in July 2012.

The grand jury found that Spencer reported threats on his life to law enforcement on numerous occasions. By the beginning of 2012, grand jury testimony revealed that Spencer believed he was going to be murdered and allegedly reported to family and friends that there was nothing he could do to prevent it.

In late January 2010, Spencer's Millville Road home burned to the ground. Within weeks of the fire, Sanutti-Spencer allegedly bragged about being responsible and later threatened to set fire to Spencer's girlfriend's home. That home eventually was set on fire in August 2010.

Spencer's mother and girlfriend became concerned about him when he failed to answer their repeated phone calls and texts, and when he failed to show up for his son's baseball game. Mrs. Spencer asked a family friend to go and check on her son, who was eventually found deceased in his Hemlock Township home.

According to the grand jury, Spencer was shot twice. The first shot was allegedly fired from a rifle and the second shot, to the victim's head, was fired from a small caliber weapon. A search of the wooded ridge across from the Spencer home was conducted and officers located a sniper's nest that was approximately 115 feet from the front door.

After the murder Spencer's dog and his truck were both missing from the home. The dog was recovered in Halifax Township, Dauphin County, approximately 12 miles from where Franklin was living at the time, and 72 miles from the murder scene. The truck was eventually found a few blocks from the Brass Key Bar, which is owned and operated by Franklin's son.

The grand jury found that Sanutti-Spencer continued to make threatening statements to Spencer's family and friends following the murder.

Sanutti-Spencer is charged with: one count of criminal homicide; one count of criminal solicitation to commit criminal homicide; one count of criminal conspiracy; one count of burglary; one count of receiving stolen property; one count of criminal solicitation to commit burglary; four counts of arson and related offenses; two counts of criminal solicitation to commit arson and related offenses; one count of criminal attempt/criminal homicide; four counts of terroristic threats; and 15 counts of perjury.

Franklin is charged with: one count of criminal homicide; one count of criminal conspiracy; one count of burglary; four counts of arson and related offenses; one count of criminal attempt/criminal homicide; and one count of terroristic threats.

Anyone with information regarding Franklin's whereabouts or information relating to this case is encouraged to contact the Pennsylvania State Police Bloomsburg Barracks at 570-387-4701.

Attorney General Kane thanked the troopers and officers from the Pennsylvania State Police who assisted with the investigation.

The case will be prosecuted in Columbia County by Senior Deputy Attorney General Anthony Forray of the Office of Attorney General's Criminal Prosecutions Section.

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Pa Lieutenant Governor Jim Cawley and a $30 parking ticket.

28 Jul
Monday @ 4:34 pm

LT Governor Jim Cawley's state issued Chevy Suburban was issued a $30 parking ticket Monday morning while parked on State street in Harrisburg.

SP Plus employee issues a parking ticket.

Photo/Natalie Cake

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