Librarian pleads guilty in death of World War I veteran
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Sixty-five years after Edmund Schreiber survived some of the bloodiest fighting of World War I, the Purple Heart Medal recipient was found strangled with his own neckties.
Now, nearly 35 years after Schreiber was slain inside his Buffalo home, a then-teenage neighbour-turned-librarian is facing prison time after admitting to killing the 92-year-old combat veteran during a break-in.
Prosecutors, detectives and Schreiber’s family feel “fantastic” because a culprit is finally being brought to justice, Erie County District Attorney John Flynn said Thursday, a day after Saundra Adams pleaded guilty in a Buffalo courtroom to a reduced charge of manslaughter.
Flynn said Adams was 17 when she and an accomplice broke into Schreiber’s home on the night of June 23, 1983, looking for money. Adams and Schreiber lived on the same street, and she had done errands for him, the prosecutor said.