Posted on 09/24/2003 4:39:49 PM PDT by restornu
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:11:24 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Police say William Rothstein is helpful and pleasant to be around.
But whether the Summit Township man will face charges after admitting helping Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong dispose of her boyfriend's body remained up in the air Tuesday.
Investigators believe the body found in a freezer in the garage of Rothstein's Peach Street home is James Roden, 45, who was Diehl-Armstrong's live-in boyfriend. A positive identification had not been made Tuesday because the body was still too frozen, Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook said.
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Members of an FBI evidence team prepare to hang a sheet to hide the view of a garage they're searching at 8645 Peach St. Tuesday. (Erie Times-News photo by Rich Forsgren)
William Rothstein, left, showed police, including Erie Detective Don Metzger, where he picked up the body of James Roden on East Seventh Street, moved it to his house on upper Peach Street and stored it in a freezer. (Erie Times-News photo by Rich Forsgren)
FBI agents and state police investigators sign in with state police trooper James Bock, left, in uniform, before searching a property on upper Peach Street Tuesday. (Erie Times-News photo by Rob Engelhardt)
Body was to be cut up
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Eerie Erie.
He sounds like quite the handyman --- willing to do the little odd jobs she needed done.
That handyman might be a little slow too this women might be involved?
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