Among those in the courtroom was Bobbi Mack. MAGGIE MCCARTIN: I always feel like John’s blood’s on her hands one way or another, maybe not directly but indirectly. John’s likeness is etched into the middle. He certainly never talked about any driving desire to get married. Artist Daniel Marsula designed the logo. On an Oriental rug. Yeah. She cited a 1927 Pennsylvania Common Pleas Court opinion that said, “You cannot untie a knot which has already been untied.”. Numerous, subsequent phone calls, text messages and letters went unanswered. MAGGIE MCCARTIN: There are still a lot of questions that are unanswered, I think, for many of us that lived through this. At one point he said he was fearful for his life and I said, “Well, you need to share that with somebody or you need to tell the police” and he said, “Why would I bother telling the police because he is a police officer?” I think he just felt like he was in a situation that there nobody to help him. MICHAEL FUOCO: And as a criminal investigator — I understand that at this point, this was not your case — but don’t you work from the inside out, from the people closest to the victim looking at them as suspects? JEFF WITMER: Sure, I was gonna use that term in my last answer to you, but I didn't know how to say it. Or second, third or even fourth ones. Amid the sadness was the haunting feeling that maybe justice would never be served on a person still acting as a soldier of the law. And the judge said, “He’s been coached. So far, there have been 13 races run in John’s honor. The DNA was the final piece of evidence. I don’t really remember much about her beyond that. ANTHONY KRASTEK: I kind of saw him in my mind, maybe hopefully or wistfully thinking, that he’s laying on his bunk and it finally gets to him, why this happened. DENNIS VAUGHN: The trial really for me was my first opportunity to really just look at him and to realize those are the hands that killed my friend, that’s the person that came into John’s house in the middle of the night and stole his life. MICHAEL FUOCO: She had no way to know it then, but the end was far, far away. The fact he had no cellphone or computer. "To Love and to Perish" was written by me, Michael A. Fuoco. John was smitten with the attractive blue-eyed brunette who had two children. Eleven days later, he bought her a 2-carat diamond engagement ring. The muscular, athletic trooper with a buzz-cut was 39. ANTHONY KRASTEK: Clearly, Michele fed that, she fed those susceptibilities. When John was moving out, he asked another college buddy, Dave Lavrich, to give him a hand. This large backyard that John had a ice rink installed so that Michele's son could practice hockey in the backyard. AGE 40 Michelle A Kamler. He would have bled out very quickly because you have the carotid artery and the jugular vein, major blood vessels with significant pressure and it would not take much then to lead to unconsciousness in a matter of maybe 15, 20, 30 seconds at the most and then death would ensue. That's because had he lived but one more day, there would have been an end to the bitter battle over John's large estate, including a $1 million life insurance policy. I mean, he wasn’t mean to you but he'd give a wisecrack to anybody. The names of 89 residents who lost their lives in America's wars are etched into black granite slabs. This large backyard that John had a ice rink installed so that Michele's son could practice hockey in the backyard. And men fell for it. I said I wasn’t really worried about that because, I mean, we were just dating and the fact that they were moving towards a divorce and I don’t think at that point he had a divorce attorney. But he voluntarily gave up some of them because Jay Jay was so traumatized that he refused to go with his father. John flew the family to Russia where they adopted a nearly 2-year-old boy in March 2000. The couple moved the baby into the home where they lived with Michele’s two children from a previous marriage and Jay Jay. It was not to be. A year passed. Details. She had made phone calls to me and actually put something in writing and said that I need to be worried about my son coming home from school. MICHAEL FUOCO: Next time on “To Love and to Perish” —. Clark along with John’s divorce attorney, Effie Alexander, went to court. They have also lived in Indiana, PA and Johnstown, PA. Michelle is related to Nicole Kamler and John Yelenic as well as 2 additional people . The anxiety, the stress, the threats, being taken out of his dental office in handcuffs by the police in front of his patients just systematically tore him down brick by brick from the person that he once was. Bell agreed and turned over the case to Corbett’s office. Both were warm, giving and funny. In high school, he acted in plays and musicals. Lavrich was a chemist, so McCartin called her boyfriend “Doc.” Randall Gardner, whose work Krastek praised. DENNIS VAUGHN: The one thing that all of these men seem to have in common were that they were all successful, fairly wealthy individuals and that certainly seemed to fit Michele's pattern. She ran into Kevin and Michele at a hockey rink. Michelle has been found in 3 states including Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia. That was not on Kevin’s usual way home from his hockey game that ended at midnight. The inmates work in teams of two with an individual dog 24 hours a day, including sleeping with it in their cells. MAGGIE MCCARTIN: We get there and Michele’s there and Jay Jay’s there, and I‘m helping. Start-up funds for aspiring business owners. Not that I knew, not that I thought, “Oh, Kevin did it.” Yeah. There they found John. Never did they go and haul in Kevin and Michele, ever. He was just that kind of person. Four. Most of the lacerations were consistent with slashing knife wounds. We kind of knew what happened. (Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette), Tom Jennings can't forget the day he found the slashed body of John Yelenic in the victim's Blairsville home. I remember everybody speaking so well of him, professionally as a dentist, personally as a human being in every way and the fact that somebody like that should be murdered in such an incredibly egregious fashion ... that indeed was very disturbing. ANTHONY KRASTEK: We definitely looked at Michele because she was in some part the impetus to motive here. And one not being more important than the other, you know, they’re just people who generally liked him and were sorry that things went the way they did with John in his life. I know he's gone but there is this tribute that's going on. Teeth whitening. John’s life was cut short. On the witness stand, Kevin said the knife he regularly carried was a Spyderco. Alexander said that after being exonerated, John had weekly visitation rights. He just said “How are you?” Very cordial. And for 12 years, he appeared to adhere to it. Excellent.". View All Details, 2) Social Media Profiles & More MAGGIE MCCARTIN: On the way home I remember saying that was really messed up. The motto served as a reminder to the jury of seven men and five women during Kevin’s eight-day trial. Corbett, who would go on to become governor, was a former U.S. attorney and an Allegheny County prosecutor. A grand jury investigation into John’s murder found that the divorce proceedings became “overheated.” There were allegations that John physically and sexually assaulted Jay Jay. Well, apparently, according to John, when he disclosed to Michele that he himself had the affair she erupted on him, became very angry, threw him out of the house and told him that she was going to seek a divorce because of his infidelity. I think Foley was manipulated. DENNIS VAUGHN: I never knew anybody that did not like John. Chapter 2 -- "Happily Never After" This podcast was recorded in the studios of the Center for Media Innovation at Point Park University in Downtown Pittsburgh. In part, it reads:. And Attorney General Special Agent Regis Kelly, a veteran homicide investigator, was assigned to the case. MICHAEL FUOCO: Michele remains in Savannah. All agree she was an expert in the art of sexual politics. You always feel like maybe you had something to do with it because of advice or — you know, this is just something that I’ve lived with. Thank you for your support. You can’t really think about one without thinking about the others right nw, they’re that tied together. As soon as the word homicide was mentioned, my thought went immediately to Kevin — Kevin/Michele — because they were the only people I would ever ever imagine would have any desire to hurt John. I knew her from politics, she came to me, she didn’t even come to Harrisburg. It’s easy — just go to post-gazette.com/subscribe. I was always more of a quieter person. Oh, and one more thing: His DNA was under John’s fingernail. And I think he just thought that that was the right thing to do. And the passions are still there. She said that she would have to go on food stamps otherwise. TOM CORBETT: I mean, she wasn’t seeing anything happening. And they walk away. For most of his life, John had been happy. At the time, John was caring for his terminally ill mother at night while his aunts did so during the day. He was funny, he was outgoing, he was approachable, he always made you feel welcome, made you feel important. Listen to us on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. MICHAEL FUOCO: Corbett, now a law professor at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, put Senior Deputy Attorney General Anthony Krastek in charge. The FBI determined they were likely from an Asics Gel Creed or Gel Creed Plus running shoe, between sizes 10 and 12½. Like she would follow me in my car or at one point I ended up calling the police in Murrysville to let them know that I’d been threatened. So, for her to start dating a Pennsylvania state trooper from a socio-economic standpoint seemed to be a big step downward and it didn't make sense to us at first why she would do this. MICHAEL FUOCO: On the front wall in the Indiana County courtroom where Kevin was tried in March 2009 is a quote from Theodore Roosevelt: “No man is above the law and no man is below it.”. MICHAEL FUOCO: It so happened that Kevin had a fascination with knives. We could piece through the physical act of the entry and the homicide, the actual physical facts of the homicide relatively quickly. He said the dentist should die, that he prayed for his death in a car crash. (VWH Campbell/Post-Gazette), Effie Alexander, who had been John's divorce attorney, went to court, along with Clark, in an attempt to get John a posthumous divorce. (Courtesy Maggie McCartin), Effie Alexander, the Pittsburgh attorney who would come to represent John in his contentious divorce, said there was more to Michele than met the eye. What was Michele’s role in all of this, if any? She’s a pretty girl but it’s not like her looks are the be all and end all. We’re the team that brought you the award-winning Season 1: “Three Rivers, Two Mysteries.” That podcast examines the strange disappearances and drownings of two young men in Pittsburgh’s rivers. Testimony would later show that Kevin regularly told troopers — and others, including even his mother — that John should die, that he prayed for his death in a car crash. MICHAEL FUOCO: After the autopsy, Wecht visited the murder scene. It was this large, lavish house. So I just felt a connection to him right right away and felt really badly for him. They variously described them as men arguing, blood-curdling screams and sounds like the squealing of a pig. Michele, Kevin and Jay Jay all declined to participate in this podcast. Used cars for those without transportation. But John revealed to friends that he believed Michele was having affairs with other men. And Kevin, who swore an oath to uphold the law as a Pennsylvania state trooper, would be the murderer. (Courtesy Mary Ann Clark), Michele poses in a white dress in an undated photo. She and John understood why the relationship had to end. In March 1997, John’s mother, Mary Lois, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Clark was appointed executor of John’s estate. Looking for Michele Yelenic ? At a hearing, Alexander said, it quickly became clear there was no evidence to support the allegations. (John Beale/Post-Gazette), TO LOVE AND TO PERISHA Pittsburgh Post-Gazette True Crime PodcastCopyright 2018, PG Publishing Co. John marries Michele. Kevin’s blood should be tested against whatever DNA might be found under John’s fingernails, she thought. He enjoyed his profession, his community, his friends, helping others less fortunate. On the very day the man she said she loved was sentenced, she packed a truck and moved to Savannah, Georgia. MAGGIE MCCARTIN: We get there and Michele’s there and Jay Jay’s there, and I‘m helping. Not just that he did it but that maybe he was coaxed into this in some way and he ought to let that be known. Clark was there every day. Friends and family of the beloved dentist had been frustrated by the initial homicide investigation. Michele seemed to continually social climb and her relationships, getting more and more wealthy men to be involved with her. You feel absolutely helpless. What you do when you can’t go to the police and have them believe you? MICHAEL FUOCO: Bobbi Mack felt the same. I mean, we were watching this, but we’re not involved. Would Kevin really get away with it? On the anniversary of John’s death, more than 130 friends and family held a vigil outside his home. He, towards the end, I had the opportunity to spend the weekend before he died with him at his house in Blairsville and at that stage he physically wasn't the same person. But it ultimately failed. He was assigned to desk duty in Indiana, Pa., four days after John’s body was discovered. MICHAEL FUOCO: Michele didn’t make good first impressions with John’s friends. Ashley Murray is the producer. Yet, no one told their supervisors. But then I started noticing he was drinking a lot more, he was depressed a lot more easily, he had gained weight. Michele married Yelenic in 1997. * * * Not at all a flashy person. He had to make sure that he inflicted that additional wound, not only to assure Dr. Yelenic's death, but also to play out in venomous fashion, the depth of his hatred for Dr. Yelenic. I guess everybody was in shock in little Blairsville. His etched likeness includes the trademark smile fondly recalled by relatives, friends, neighbors, patients and Blairsville residents. When he met Michele Kamler, he thought he'd finally found the woman of his dreams. Until they do. “All that John wanted in return was a family,” John Magyar wrote. DENNIS VAUGHN: Very haunting. That is, until the day after John’s murder. She picked a fine day to accuse him of molestation because as luck would have it he videotaped almost the entire visit other than maybe the time when he turned off the camera to drive to Chuck E Cheese or drive back home. Inside out, you work your way out. Obviously, it was a murder. KEVIN FOLEY: Everybody comes up to them and wants to pet them and everybody makes comments on how long since they’ve actually petted a dog. With Corbett, Krastek and Kelly now on the case, for the first time since the murder one year earlier, they believed justice was now a possibility. She was inappropriate. Attractive, with blue eyes, dark hair and a statuesque figure, she turned heads. This is the story of how the fates of three people became tragically intertwined. Thank you for your support. And it blew up in his face. Want to support more journalism like this? Ashley Murray is the producer. Virginia Linn is our editor. MICHAEL FUOCO: Kevin began dating Michele in the summer of 2004. Michelle (Yelenic) McGuire is a speech and language support specialist for Appalachia Intermediate Unit 8. Everywhere, there was blood. It had a hot tub. His sense of humor while it was still there was very strained. John's friends and family react: Was justice served. And why John? His eyes appear to twinkle. “Yes, sir, I am innocent,” Kevin responded. Your husband was murdered,” with Kevin in the house, the kids in the house. The divorce process between Michele and John had been ugly and protracted. EFFIE ALEXANDER: We didn’t want her to be his widow. And blood was on unsigned divorce papers near the body. He died by the sword, he did not live by the sword, and that was unfair to him. DENNIS VAUGHN: I guess I would say John was not the kind of person that I thought was in any rush to get married. (Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette), Kevin is featured in this television report about the dog-training program at the State Correctional Institution at Retreat. He was just that kind of guy. Michele married Yelenic in 1997. Join Facebook to connect with Michele Yelenic and others you may know. Savannah, GA. Michele had primary custody of Jay Jay and John had visitation rights on weekends. In response to a right-to-know request filed by me, state police would not explain why Kevin was given restricted status or transferred. And artist Alexa Miller designed our social media campaign. How could this guy kill you when it would be the most obvious thing that it was him? And men fell for it. Because of that and other threatening behavior from Michele, Mack broke off the relationship with John after about two years and shortly before his death. His daughter, son-in-law and grandsons were John's next-door neighbors. * * * I think that's the best part of small-town living. It’s almost like that’s what happened. Shamokin, PA. … But he had to be clever about it. John had always driven old used cars. Laura Malt Schneiderman is the web page designer. "You must be kidding me, right? On file we have 14 emails for Michelle including michel*****@gmail.com, mich****@hotmail.com, nik***@aattbi.com, and 11 other email addresses. But the couple was unable to conceive. John’s mom died in June 1997. After closing arguments and the judge’s charge, the jury began its deliberations. He generously served as a campus dentist for the local school district, earning $2 per patient. John and Michele Yelenic had been separated in 2002. She was very attractive. MICHAEL FUOCO: Does it ever pass through your brain the possibility that Foley could be involved? It was really gauche, if you will. She reinvests a significant portion of her income into personal growth and professional development in order to stay on the cutting edge of Real Estate. Their practice thrived. I always feel like John’s blood’s on her hands one way or another, maybe not directly but indirectly. Maggie McCartin is among them. A jury renders its verdict. John had asked Clark’s parents — his aunt and uncle — to witness his signing of the settlement. Maggie McCartin said it bothers her to this day. DENNIS VAUGHN: John and I came from very similar backgrounds. So, all of a sudden there’s this hot girl who’s doling out Budweiser samples at the local bar, that everybody’s eyeing up because she looks easy, and John has her. Friends said that before he died, he had become a different man than the one they knew and loved. He was just that kind of person. Chapter 5 -- "Two Lives Lost". TOM JENNINGS: Do anything for you Well-liked. It had been more than two decades since the last murder in this Indiana County town. Michele currently lives at Johnny Mercer Blvd in Savannah, Georgia, 31410-3319. ZIP code 31410 (Savannah) average rent price for two bedrooms is $1,250 per month. In fewer than 16 months, John would be savagely murdered. He always gave Michele what she wanted. He was really inconsolable. See 2 Profile Searchers. The sexual molestation charges were sort of the nail in the coffin. The person that he was, the person that I knew and that John's friends, family, loved ones knew, he died before he was murdered. There has been no activity on it since then. This season, we’re bringing you a true tale of how love, infidelity, greed and hatred in a small town 40 miles from Pittsburgh ultimately resulted in a gruesome murder. Until next time, I'm Michael A. Fuoco. Five months later, he was transferred to a different barracks with the same restricted status. 401 N Cromwell Rd Apt F8, Savannah, GA 31410. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette), Murray adjusts recording levels on the sound board as Fuoco narrates the script from one of the five chapters of "To Love and to Perish." But now with his mother’s wish and being 29, John thought maybe it was time to settle down. That’s not what did it. WBRE and WYOU Eyewitness News, TV stations in Wilkes-Barre and Scranton, did a report on the program in May. The effort drew national attention from law journals and the media, but it ultimately failed. What she didn’t consider was that John had been savagely murdered. 1 Michele M. Yelenic, widow of Decedent, has informed this Court that she agrees with Appellant’s argument requesting the issuance of a posthumous divorce decree and will not file a separate brief. Agent Kelly and I had a lot of experience in homicide cases and really, looking through the photographs, it was pretty apparent to us what happened. So, I shared that I had worked with somebody in Pittsburgh who was really on top of things and very savvy and could support him. DENNIS VAUGHN: I was really struck by how much this house was different than John, didn't meet, didn’t match his personality. You know these are three people, John Yelenic, Michele Yelenic and Kevin Foley who came from three very different places in life and are now going to be tied together forever because of these events. He majored in biology, preparing for a career as a dentist. Above the entryway in Shawn Wilkinson’s home, a sign with thick block letters reads, “FAITH FAMILY FRIENDS,” the three support systems that have helped him cope with the disappearance of his stepdaughter, Akia Eggleston. (Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette), A view of East Market Street in downtown Blairsville, looking west. * * * And therefore, there’s never going to be forgiveness in my heart for him. Listen to us on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. We were just concerned if he was still breathing. TOM JENNINGS: It was a mess. Thank you for your support. Glosser’s family founded Johnstown’s premier department store, Glosser Brothers, in the 1920s. Michele M Yelenic, 49. MICHAEL FUOCO: Clark is a mover and shaker in county and state Republican politics. BOBBI MACK: I told him he was going to rot in hell for what he did, which I guess was stupid on my part, but I just said that to him, and that’s when Michele, they both were yelling, they yelled at me and called me names. I don’t know ... . Her grief was unspoken but evident. He also expressed dire concern that he would end up dead. And little did I know all of this time would pass, and it would continue to kind of build, and nothing happened. He had to make sure that he inflicted that additional wound, not only to assure Dr. Yelenic's death, but also to play out in venomous fashion, the depth of his hatred for Dr. Yelenic. What do people always say? Kevin had been living with Michele, John’s estranged wife. State troopers who worked in the Indiana barracks testified that on a nearly daily basis, Kevin expressed his extreme hatred of John, said he wished and prayed he would die, and even asked a fellow trooper to help kill him. EFFIE ALEXANDER: She’s a pretty girl but it’s not like her looks are the be all and end all. Twice divorced with no children, he was 39 and Michele was 33. And that video was entered as evidence. For John’s friends, like Dennis Vaughn, there was no question of who was behind John’s murder. His computerized DNA testing had never before been certified in a trial, but now is used throughout the state. As soon as the word homicide was mentioned, my thought went immediately to Kevin — Kevin/Michele — because they were the only people I would ever ever imagine would have any desire to hurt John. If Foley was not Michele's lover, paramour, then Kevin Foley would not have killed John Yelenic. He even picked up the tab in restaurants for people he didn't know. A court determined the allegation was baseless but John was wounded by the experience.
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