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Life-sentenced man
free after 16 years
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United Press International
BOSTON — George Reiss-
felder says hejust wants to fish
and try to forget he spent 16
years of his life in prison and
on the run for a murder he
says he did not commit.
Reissfelder, 42, always in
sisted he was a victim of mis
taken identity but it took the
deathbed confession of his co
defendant and testimony
from a former prison cha-
fcplain and six law enforcement
. officers to spring him from a
life prison term.
“I’m overjoyed,” Reissfel
der said Monday after he
walked out of Suffolk County
Courthouse a free man. "I’m
the happiest guy in the
world.”
He said his only regret was
that his parents died before he
was exonerated.
Reissfelder was sentenced
to life in prison for the mur
der of a railway express clerk
| during a $20,000 holdup at
Boston’s South Station. He
skipped out on a furlough in
1974 and was recaptured
three years later, but never
gave up hope he would be re
leased.
“I figured someday this
would all come out,” said
Reissfelder.
He said all he really wanted
to do was take a walk alone,
have lunch with his family,
then fish in New Hampshire
for a week before going to
work at his inlaw’s clothing
factory in Boston.
“I barely know him, but I’m
going to get to know him
now," his daughter Maria, 21,
said.
Suffolk Superior Court
Judge Paul Connolly
approved a defense motion to
dismiss the conviction against
Reissfelder after Assistant
Suffolk County District Attor
ney John Kiernan said it was
not feasible to re-try the case
16 years after the holdup.
Witnesses testified Reissfel
der took part in the Oct. 14,
1966, roboery along with Wil-
liajn “Silky” Sullivan, but his
attorneys claimed it was a case
of mistaken identity. Both
were found guilty and sent
enced to life in prison.
The Rev. Edward D. Co-
whig, a Roman Catholic priest
and former prison chaplain,
said Sullivan, while dying of
leukemia in 1972, exonerated
Reissfelder. He quoted Sulli
van as saying,“Tm sorry
Reissfelder was convicted of
something he was not in
volved in.”
But an embittered Reissfel
der apparently refused to talk
with Cowhig and the cleric left
the prison without conveying
the man’s deathbed message.
Reissfelder did not pursue
appeals for years and did not
learn of Sullivan’s statement
until 1980. His current team
of court-appointed attorneys
began seeking a new trial last
year after obtaining corrobor
ating evidence from the six
law officers.
The Boston police detec
tives and an FBI agent said
street informants told them at
least two other men — not
Reissfelder — were involved
in the robbery.
U.S., German vets
visit after 39 years
United Press International
GRETNA, La. — Edward
Keeton and six friends mun
ched hotdogs, guzzled beer and
laughed about the old days
when they tried to kill each
other.
Keeton, 60, was hardly one to
hold a grudge.
As president of the 36th In
fantry Division Association, a
unit of U.S. Army World War II
veterans, he thought it might be
interesting to invite a few guests
to the association’s annual reun
ion. The guests had names like
Helmit Meitzel, Gerhard Muhm
and Heinz Langrock.
“The bad guys,” Keeton said.
A year of letter-writing
through the German Consulate
in New Orleans, got Keeton his
guests on Sunday. Six veterans
of the 29th Panzer Grenadier
Division, the Nazi infantry unit
that battled the 36th in Italy, ar
rived at Keeton’s home for a
three-day visit before the Hous
ton reunion.
“It’s a good opportunity to
compare notes,” said Keeton.
Lounging in the sun at Jack-
son Barracks in St. Bernard Par
ish, the six men from West Ger
many laughed and argued like
old college football rivals. Med
als were counted, wounds dis
played and stories traded in a
friendly manner that belied the
horrors of war.
“Listening to us, you might
think being a soldier was a funny
thing,” said Herbert Peiler, one
of Keeton’s guests. “We don’t
talk about the bad things and the
pain. But we remember.”
On Sept. 9, 1943, the 36th led
the invasion on the Salerno
beaches, marking the first land
ing of American forces in
Europe.
“We had never been to com
bat,” Keeton said of his division,
which was originally the Texas
National Guard. “We were
green as grass. And these fellows
who were waiting for us were as
experienced as hell.”
The 36th took the beach after
several days of fighting, suffer
ing the third highest Allied
casualty rate.
“The Texans were tough,”
Meitzel said with a nod toward
Keeton. “They were able to
stand a very bad time after
Salerno.”
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