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Area woman pleads in fake suicide plotGREENSBURG — A Westmoreland County woman was placed onprobation for four years after pleading guilty to charges stemming from a fake suicide plot and thefts at the personal care home where she formerly worked.Lee Ann Kowalsky, 19, formerly of Derry, pleaded guilty to unsworn falsification to authorities, tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, criminal conspiracy, theft by unlawful taking or disposition, and five counts of forgery related to credit cards.Westmoreland County Common Pleas Judge Gary Caruso also ordered Kowalsky to make restitution of |594 to various victims of the thefts and to pay court costs for both eases.In a plea agreement, Kowalsky agreed to “testify truthfully against Kenneth Wesley Sigafoes, 26, New Alexandria RD 2, who allegedly conspired with her in the fake suicide plot.Sigafoes is charged with two counts of unsworn falsification to authorities, tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, and criminal conspiracy in connection with the fake suicide incident.Police allege the pair concocted the phony suicide to remove Kowalsky as the focus of investigation in the theft case.According to court records, Kowalsky’s car was found abandoned at the Tunnelton Bridge in Loyalhanna Township on April I. Sigafoes identified a locket found on the bridge as hers, and suicide notes were found in her former apartment in Derry.Several air and water searches by the state police and Saltsburg Fire Department failed to turn up a body.Police allege that Kowalsky actually was living in Indiana and that Sigafoes, identified as her boyfriend, was aware of her whereabouts. She was arrested May 5 at the Indiana apartment.Two days after Kowalsky’s car was found near the bridge, police f^fived a complaint that several tnetts had occurred at the Crest Personal Care Home, New Alexandria, where she had worked.Police alleged that Kowalsky took a fellow employee’s §20 wallet containing credit cards that she used to obtain merchandise from various stores in Greensburg and Latrobe and that she took §10 cash from each of two other employees.
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Indiana Gazette
Indiana, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Aug 22, 1987
Page 8
Full Page
Clipped by
Abraham S.
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