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    Scott North Pleads Guilty in 2006 PA Slaying of Carl Ryder, Receives 20 to 40 Year Sentence

    A Franklin County judge has granted the District Attorney's Office an extension to file a notice of aggravating circumstances in a 2006 criminal homicide case, a procedural requirement to seek the death penalty.


    Scott Nathan North, 27, formerly of Chambersburg, is charged in the August 2006 killing of a former employer. North entered a not guilty plea to that and other charges at his mandatory arraignment on Aug. 6.


    A notice of aggravating circumstances normally has to be filed by the time of mandatory arraignment.



    Judge Douglas W. Herman recently granted the extension, Assistant District Attorney Angela Krom said. Evidence related to the case that could help determine whether the death penalty can be sought is undergoing testing by the Pennsylvania State Police Crime Lab, she said.


    A determination will be made on whether to file the notice of aggravating circumstances once the results of the testing are available, Krom said.


    North, who also is charged with escape, walked away from a work release job in Shippensburg, Pa., on Aug. 2, 2006. He was apprehended by Pennsylvania State Police eight days later following a high-speed chase that started in Huntingdon County and ended in Mifflin County.


    On Aug. 16, 2006, the body of Carl Ryder, 43, of Amberson, Pa., was found along a rural roadside in Huntingdon County, police said. Ryder was a fencing contractor for whom North once worked and had been missing for several days before North's capture.


    Ryder died of blunt force trauma, according to autopsy results. Police said they found Ryder's blood outside his home, in the trunk of his car and on an address book belonging to North.


    North was driving Ryder's Ford Crown Victoria when a state trooper stopped him on the night of Aug. 10, 2006, police said. North gave the trooper Ryder's driver's license, and when the trooper remarked that he did not look like Ryder's photo, North claimed he had undergone plastic surgery, police said.


    The trooper did not buy that explanation and the pursuit began when North sped off, police said.


    Other charges against North include four counts of theft; two counts each of burglary, criminal trespass, forgery and access device fraud; and one count each of false identification to law enforcement, fleeing or eluding police and abuse of a corpse.


    Two Franklin County men are on death row in Pennsylvania - Michael Singley, who was convicted in a 1998 double homicide, and Albert Ezron Reid, who killed his estranged wife and stepdaughter in 1996.


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    UPDATE:

    Jury awards murder victim's family $1.1 million

    CHAMBERSBURG, Pa.—
    — A Franklin County, Pa., jury awarded a murder victim’s family $1.1 million in damages.

    According to a copy of the verdict, Carl Ryder’s mother, as the executor of his estate, was awarded $457,847 in lost earnings and $642,153 for pain and suffering.

    Scott Nathan North, 30, pleaded no contest to third-degree murder in the August 2006 shooting death of Ryder. He was sentenced to 20 to 40 years in state prison on that charge, along with two to seven years for an escape charge connected to walking away from his Franklin County Jail work-release job before the killing.

    North, the sole defendant in the civil matter, wrote a letter saying he would not participate in the civil lawsuit, but he did complete some paperwork mailed to him at a correctional facility in Greensburg, Pa.

    An “economics expert” prepared a report on the plaintiff’s behalf. A copy of that report contained within court documents detailed Ryder’s potential earnings from the date of his death to the end of his life expectancy.

    Ryder, 43, was working as a self-employed fence installer when he was killed. Included in the case file is information from his 1099 tax forms, with wages listed as $30,932 for 2003, $57,470 for 2004 and $57,148 for 2005.

    Court documents state the pain and suffering amount includes the distress felt by Shippensburg, Pa., resident Bonita Ryder and her family, as well as the time between when Ryder suffered the gunshot wound and when he stumbled onto a porch and died.

    Pennsylvania State Police said the shooting occurred in Ryder’s home in Amberson, Pa., which is in a rural, northern portion of Franklin County. Troopers found the body of Ryder, North’s former employer, in a cleared pipeline in Huntingdon County, Pa., on Aug. 16, 2006. Investigators testified in criminal proceedings that North used Ryder’s driver’s license and credit cards.

    Pennsylvania State Police cited DNA evidence when announcing they charged North 19 months after discovering Ryder’s body.

    http://www.herald-mail.com/news/tris...,7343070.story

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