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David Wellington Reed (17 January 1972 – 21 August 1985) was a 13-year-old boy in the seventh grade at Schuylkill Haven Area Middle School, who was murdered in 1985 by then 20-year-old Joseph "Joe" Geiger in Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, United States over Geiger's stolen illegally grown cannabis plants. Geiger blamed Reed for the disappearance of the drug. Friends, family, and teachers remember Reed as an outgoing person who aspired to fly. Reed's death remained unsolved for 20 years, until the case was reopened in 2005 by the Schuylkill Haven police department. Geiger was arrested in 2008 on the 23rd anniversary of Reed's death and was found guilty of third-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter, evidence tampering, and abuse of corpse, among other offenses.〔 == Murder == Reed and his siblings, James and Virginia, had begun using marijuana from young adolescence, and had even begun dealing it themselves during 1985.〔 On the night of August 21, 1985, 13-year-old Reed left home on his bicycle to meet up with friends 20-year-old Joe Geiger and 14-year-old John F. Fry, Jr., to drink beer and smoke pot in an abandoned caboose at the local train station.〔〔〔 After a while, Geiger began to accuse Reed of stealing his illegally grown cannabis plants. Suddenly, Geiger stood up and shocked Reed and Fry by roundhouse punching Reed in the head, causing Reed to fall out of the caboose and slam his skull into the metal rails of the train tracks. Reed was knocked unconscious but was still breathing.〔〔 Geiger told Fry to leave at this point. Fry, intimidated by the older boy's larger stature, left. Fry did not participate in the actual murder and cover-up of the murder that followed. Years later, he admitted to police that he had had no idea of Reed's death until Reed's body was discovered.〔〔 Geiger then carried Reed's body a few hundred yards into the surrounding woods in Cressona where he left the body. The location of Reed's body was less than 100 yards from the Reed's home, however the body was not discovered until December 1985.〔 Reed's mother called police when David failed to return home the next day. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Murder of David Reed」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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