Eddie Stecker Murder

Charles Stecker was only 4 years old when he saw his foster mother kill his 2-year-old brother Eddie, but he remembers it like it was yesterday.

“[She] put my brother to bed and he was crying profusely. [Eddie] was probably in pain because he was beat up,” says Stecker, who remembers lying in a bed a few feet away as his foster mother, Lillian Bedford, placed his brother in a crib, walked downstairs and started chatting on the telephone.

Stecker watched his foster mother return to the boys’ room, agitated by what she described as Eddie’s persistent “squalling,” the Philadelphia Inquirer later reported.

“She came in our room. There was a plastic pin in the crib,” recalls Stecker, referring to a bowling pin, a part of a children’s toy bowling kit. “She picked [the bowling pin] up and swung it at him and told him to shut his ing mouth. When she hit him she caught him in the back of his head.”

Various newspapers reported a second blow. Either way, Eddie toppled out of the crib.

“His head bounced off the floor,” Stecker says. “I jumped out of bed, went over and was holding him … I remember blood coming out of his ears and nose.”  Chaeles will be my guest. 

Read more: http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/news-and-opinion/Man-Seeks-Answers-44-Years-After-Witnessing-Brothers-Death.html#ixzz2uwbKlFA1