BELLEFONTE, PA -- A police investigator says a Penn State professor who was pushed off an 80-foot rock quarry ledge died slowly and possibly was alive and immobile for up to two days.
State Trooper Brian Wakefield revealed new details Wednesday during a preliminary hearing for one of the two people charged with Ronald Bettig's murder.
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Pennlive.com reports Wakefield testified during 39-year-old George Ishler Jr.'s hearing; 32-year-old Danelle Geier waived her hearing.
Police say the two lured Bettig to the quarry Aug. 12 with a story about harvesting marijuana. They believe Ishler pushed him while Geier waited in the car with her toddler son.
Police found Bettig's body Aug. 17, buzzards hovering above it.
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Police say the duo thought they'd inherit money after Bettig's death.
Both were ordered to stand trial on murder and related charges.
AP
A woman has been charged along with a man in the death of Penn State professor Ronald Bettig, who police say was pushed off a cliff at a quarry and fell 80 feet. (Penn State via AP)