Penn State Professor’s Girlfriend and Her Uncle Push Him Off Cliff

Murder Files Unsealed

The episode describe the murder og, a Penn State professor, and the subsequent investigation that led to the arrest and conviction of his girlfriend, Danelle Geier, and her uncle, George Ishler. Bettig's death was initially ruled an accident, but police soon grew suspicious of Geier and Ishler's accounts of his disappearance. Police discovered that Geier had moved into Bettig's home after he befriended her uncle and that Geier's financial struggles motivated her to kill him. Ishler confessed to the murder but claimed that Geier had convinced him to do it. Both Geier and Ishler were found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.