The man who admitted to kidnapping and killing an Amish teenager in June 2020 was sentenced to decades in prison Friday after accepting a plea deal that removed the death penalty from consideration.

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — Justo Smoker cried Friday as he addressed the family and friends of Linda Stoltzfoos, the Amish teen he kidnapped and murdered last summer as she walked home from church in ...

The study by Robert M. Reed, a University of Maryland associate professor of medicine and the lead researcher, found that exposure to even low amounts of secondhand smoke damaged the lung function of ...

Body Found in Tarp Likely That Of Missing Amish Teen A Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to abducting and killing Amish teenager Linda Stoltzfoos as the teen was walking home from church last year.

Editor's note: Justo Smoker pleaded guilty to third-degree murder, kidnapping and other charges. Click here to read more. Justo Smoker, the man charged with abducting and killing Linda Stoltzfoos, the ...

Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams called it an “extraordinarily rare” crime. However uncommon, the crime gripped at the emotions and touched the lives of people far from the insular ...

A Pennsylvania man accused of kidnapping an Amish teenager who vanished after attending a Sunday church service six months ago has been charged in her murder, authorities said Monday. Justo Smoker, 34 ...

Justo Smoker said he drank two bottles of liquor the day before he snatched Linda Stoltzfoos in broad daylight off a road not far from her Lancaster County home. Just before the abduction, he had ...

Justo Smoker, 35, was sentenced Friday to up to 71 years in prison for the abduction and murder of Amish teen Linda Stoltzfoos, who vanished June 21, 2020, while walking home from church. Stoltzfoos, ...

Amish teen murder: Dutchland Inc., the former workplace of Justo Smoker, is seen in a 2018 Street View image taken in Gap, Pa. Smoker, 35, was sentenced Friday, July 23, 2021, to up to 71 years in ...