Charges of homicide and robbery filed against a Derry man in connection with the death of Samantha Lang were held for court on Thursday.
The Trib reports that Charles Ream was arrested on July 26th, over sixteen years after police found Lang dead in a home on Route 982 in the village of Peanut. Lang was killed at the home, described by police as a hub for drug activity, where her father lived. She was found March 27, 2007, and troopers believed she died 24 hours earlier. An autopsy showed she had been beaten, her throat cut and a finger broken.
During a preliminary hearing, Timothy Smartnick testified that Ream told him about the incident, saying that he stabbed her and ‘didn’t get what he was looking for’, which he took to mean drugs or cash. Ream remains in Westmoreland County Jail without bail.
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