Serial killer Berks victim picked at random The Morning Call

Timothy Krajcir faces hearing Tuesday in slaying of Myrtle Rupp. By Manuel Gamiz Jr. Of The Morning Call April next Article tools E mail Share Digg Del.icio.us Facebook Fark Google Newsvine Reddit Yahoo Print Single page Reprints Post comment Text size About a week before Easter in Timothy Krajcir peeped into a window of a tidy brick home in Muhlenberg Township just north of Reading. Inside he saw Myrtle Rupp a year old petite blonde widow who lived alone. Krajcir would later confess that this was how he chose his victims at random. At the time Krajcir was and awaiting a court appearance in Illinois for having a sexual relationship with a year old girl. He had already served more than a dozen years in prison there for raping and almost killing a woman but was free on bail on the latest charge. What no one knew as he hunted his next victim was that Krajcir was a serial murderer who by had killed three women in Missouri one in Illinois one in Kentucky and police say would tall! y nine victims before his spree ended. The day after he first saw Rupp Krajcir returned to her Berks County home broke in while she was out cut her phone lines and waited. But Rupp came home with someone police said so Krajcir left. A week later he was back again this time posing as a police officer investigating his earlier break in police said. And this time he caught her alone. On Tuesday Krajcir will face charges in Rupp s murder. His preliminary hearing before Berks County Judge Linda K.M. Ludgate will be through closed circuit television from the maximum security prison in Illinois where he has been since . Berks County District Attorney John Adams said he expects Krajcir to plead guilty just as he has in recent months to seven other cold case homicides and sexual assaults and a robbery in Missouri and Illinois. So far Krajcir has been sentenced to life sentences plus years in both states. He ll most likely receive another life sentence in Berks County in the Rupp cas! e Adams said but will likely serve out his sentences in Illinois. Krajcir who grew up in Ironton and briefly lived in Muhlenberg Township when he was in his mid teens admitted to investigators four months ago that he killed Rupp according to arrest papers. She didn t deserve to die he told them. Rupp s sister Verna Hartman of Reading remembers the shock of learning nearly three decades ago that her older sister had been killed. This was completely devastating she said. Rupp had been on leave from Community General Hospital in Reading following foot surgery and was looking forward to returning to her job recalled Hartman. She had worked at the hospital for about years serving as head of the obstetrics and pediatric department. She was dedicated and well respected Hartman said. A quiet person Rupp lived alone on tree lined Fifth Avenue next to the community swimming pool. When her husband died about five years earlier Rupp grew quieter and dedicated her life to her job Hartman said. The couple didn t have children but Rupp was very loving to my ! children Hartman said. Rupp s nephew David of Alsace Township was about and living in Fleetwood when she was killed. David Rupp said he had heard rumors over the years that police were close to an arrest maybe someone his aunt knew. He said he had never heard of Krajcir and doubts his aunt knew him. The murder Rupp was last seen alive on Easter Sunday April . She and her mother attended a holiday service at St. Stephen s United Church of Christ in Reading and Rupp took her mother home before returning to her own house. The next afternoon a newspaper boy noticed her front door open. It was still open Tuesday. A neighbor alarmed went inside and found her nude body on her bed. Her hands and feet were bound. Investigators determined Rupp was probably killed on April between a.m. and p.m. just as she was starting a load of laundry. Police believed her killing was connected to the break in a week earlier. An autopsy revealed Rupp had been tied and strangled with a drapery cord an! d that she had been raped. A key piece of evidence was her white bedspread which was examined at the state police crime lab. 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