Mom, Adopted Daughter Found Shot
RITA MENSINGER COMMITTED A MURDER-SUICIDE, SAYS DISTRICT ATTORNEY. THEY WERE FOUND IN A VAN AT A DUPONT PLAZA. WOMAN HAD BEEN SOUGHT SINCE SHOOTING OF HER HUSBAND.
September 23, 2000
The Times Leader
DUPONT - The weeklong search for a Lehigh County woman wanted in the shooting of her husband ended Friday near a truck stop where police found the bodies of the woman and her 11-year-old daughter dead of gunshot wounds to the head inside the family van.
Rita Mensinger, 57, shot her biological granddaughter Chelsea, who she adopted as her daughter, and then herself with a .357-caliber Magnum revolver in a lot at the Petro Stopping Center off state Route 315, said Luzerne County District Attorney David Lupas.
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