Mark Newton Spotz
Summary of Offense:
Spotz shot his brother Dustin to death during a fight at their mother's Clearfield County home on January 31, 1995, then fled, killing three women within 48 hours in Schuylkill, York and Cumberland counties before surrendering to police in a Middlesex Township motel room. He was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in his brother's slaying and sentenced to death for murdering the three women. The last of his victims was retired Lutheran deaconess Betty Amstutz of Harrisburg, whom he killed in Cumberland County. He also killed Penny Gunnet of North Codorus Township, York County and June Ohlinger of Schuylkill County.
Spotz was sentenced to death in Schuylkill County on March 6, 1996.
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