Penn State professor found in quarry may have been alive after fall
Details have emerged that Professor Bettig may have been alive for up to two days
Professor Bettig, who taught media studies at Penn State, supposedly died from a fall off of a 80-foot rock quarry ledge. According to the Associated Press, as new details emerge from the hearing about Bettig’s death it is possible he was alive after his initial fall from the quarry and may have been alive for up to two days.
A preliminary hearing was held for George Ishler Jr., 39 who was involved in Bettig’s murder. In the hearing, State Trooper Brian Wakefield found new evidence suggesting that Bettig survived and was immobile for two days after his fall.
Ishler and Danelle Geier told Bettig he could harvest marijuana at Blackhawk Quarry. According to police, once the two led him there, Ishler pushed him off the edge while Geier watched a toddler in the car.
Later on Geier and Ishler returned to the scene with Bettig’s vehicle and belongings so it looked like an accident said Wakefield. It’s possible after new findings, that Bettig was still alive as this event was happening.
A pathologist thought the professor could have been alive up to two days after his fall and could have been left immobile and unconscious and passed on to the police. The cause of death is ruled as “blunt force trauma due to a fall.”
Bettig was close with both Ishler and Geier before his death – the two were set to inherit his money after his death according to Pennlive.com.
This isn’t first time that Ishler and Geier have plotted to kill Bettig either.
Police said it was reported that they tried to drown Bettig in Rehoboth Beach but failed because Ishler did not want to go through with his actions while dunking Bettig according to Wakefield.
The case is still ongoing to find out the charges for Bettig’s death.