The brutal killing of a Washington Township man in 1992 baffles investigators.
Edward C. Stange, 49, was married, held a steady job as a supervisor with Duquesne Light Co. and volunteered for several years in the community Little League program.
On Oct. 30, 1992, one of his two sons, Mark Stange, a college student, came home to check on the mail and discovered his father's body on the kitchen floor.
Stange had been shot five times and stabbed once. He died of a perforated aorta from one of the bullets.
"We've had some leads and tips, but to this point none of them has ever developed into enough where we could make an arrest," said Chief Michael Bradjich, of Westmoreland County Detectives.
Stange was last seen alive in the home he shared with his wife, Shyrl, about 8 a.m. the day of his death.
No weapon was found. There was no sign of forcible entry.
Stange's wife declined to discuss the case.
The case took a bizarre twist in 1995, when the District Attorney's Office charged former township supervisor Edwin Scott Saul and former police chief Russell Coking with illegally wiretapping township secretary Audrey Saftner's telephone for 18 months. Both men pleaded guilty and were accepted into a special probation program.
Saul testified the telephone was tapped by the former chief during the investigation into Stange's death. Saul reported he thought Saftner was forwarding information on the investigation to her friend, Shyrl Stange.
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