Echoes in the Darkness

Echoes in the Darkness

"Echoes in the Darkness" is the title of a 1987 book by crime writer Joseph Wambaugh. The book details the lurid tale of the murder of Pennsylvania's Upper Merion Area High School English teacher Susan Reinert and her two children in 1979. The case captured national media attention. Both her boss, high school principal Jay C. Smith and her lover and colleague William Bradfield were convicted, although Smith's conviction was later overtuned, because of police and prosecutorial misconduct in the case. [ William C. Costopoulos, Principal Suspect: The True Story of Dr. Jay Smith and the Main Line Murders (Philadelphia: Camino Books, Inc., 1996).]

Echoes in the Darkness was adapted into a made-for-television mini-series in 1987. The television production starred Treat Williams, Peter Coyote, Stockard Channing, and Robert Loggia, and was directed by Glenn Jordan.

The Chief Investigator, John J. Holtz of the Pennsylvania State Police, later admitted having accepted $50,000 from author Wambaugh. [ William C. Costopoulos, Principal Suspect: The True Story of Dr. Jay Smith and the Main Line Murders (Philadelphia: Camino Books, Inc., 1996), 240, 245, 264.] The money was provided on the condition that suspect Jay Smith be arrested.Fact|date=July 2008

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