Penn State Professor im girlfriend and im uncle push am for big building for Million Dollar Plan

Wen 55-year-old Penn State University professor Ronald Bettig dem report say him miss on Monday, August 15, 2016, police begin dey look into am as missing persons case.

But wen dem meet Bettig im 34-year-old girlfriend, Danelle Geier, and her 41-year-old uncle, George Ishler, for Bettig im State College, Pennsylvania house, dem immediately begin suspect.

“I think say Danelle, say dat one dey planned from di very beginning,”

Former State College detective Christopher Weaver talk for Snapped, wey dey air Sundays for 6/5c for Oxygen.

“For her to enter dire and form fake relationship and gain im trust. And dem go exploit dat.”

Geier and Ishler tell police say dem dey wit Bettig for beach for Delaware, and dem last see am Friday, August 12, wen di trio come back to Bettig house. Geier talk say she go sleep dat night, and wen she wake up, di professor don disappear.

“Dem talk say e dey depressed bicos him wife wey don die since some years back,” Weaver talk.

“E get some mental health wahala. Dem think say something bad don happen to Ronald Bettig.”

How Pennsylvania mail ballot rules go make plenty provisional ballots dey on Election Day.

Two days later, police find Bettig vehicle wey dem abandon near one abandoned limestone quarry.

Dem search find him body for di bottom of 90-foot drop.

“Na our pathologist talk say e don survive di fall,” na wetin prosecutor Bernie Cantorna talk for Snapped. “E survive for about two days.”

But abi na accident, suicide, or murder?

Make you continue to read to see wetin police find out.

Dr. Ronald Bettig carry Danelle Geier enter him house.

Wen Dr. Ronald Bettig second wife die suddenly for 2011, friends and family talk say e enter depression.

“I sabi how e love am well-well,” na wetin Fred Bettig, Ron broda, talk for Snapped.”

“And e go dey tell me all di time how e dey miss am. E dey lose weight. And e no dey go out. And na dat time e start to get some memory wahala.”

By 2015, Bettig health problem don become too much, e no fit teach again and e take sabbatical.

During dat time, e become friends wit George Ishler, wey e meet for local smoke shop.

Ishler tell Bettig about im troubled niece, Danelle Geier, wey dey struggle to make ends meet wit small pikin and dey homeless.

For 2016, just seven months before e die, Bettig offer am room for im house.

Di relationship quick change from friendly to romantic.

“Di life force don begin come back to am. E get purpose,” Fred Bettig talk.”

“As e dey talk more and more wit Danelle, I think say e dey begin get feelings for her too.”

Geier don lose custody of her first pikin to her ex-husband and dey raise her second pikin alone.

“Danelle tell us say Ron dey take care of her, dey feed her and dey give her shelter,” Brian Wakefield, former Pennsylvania State Police Investigator, talk for Snapped.

“And e dey pay for plenty of di things wey dem need to raise her pikin.”

George Ishler and Danelle Geier dey blame each odir for Dr. Bettigs death.

Soon afta dem find Dr. Bettig body, George Ishler contact police come share him suspicion say him niece dey involved for di professor death him talk say dem get tension while dem dey on vacation.

“He also suggest say Danelle don bring anoda man come Ron house while Ron dey miss dat weekend,” na wetin Geoff Rushton, former reporter for statecollege.com talk for Snapped.

“And e really dey make people suspect say Danelle be responsible for Ron Bettig death.”

But wen police interview Danelle Geier, she point finger at her uncle.

“She talk say she no get anything to do wit am,” Cantorna talk. “She talk say George Ishler don threaten to kill her, say she dey fear. She dey fear for her pikin life.”

Di reason wey Geier talk say Ishler wan make Dr. Bettig dead?

Money. She tell police say di plan na to go beach for Delaware to collect am.

“Danelle dey tell story say George Ishler wan go dire go collect money, bicos e dey owe di professor money,” Cantorna talk.

“E dey vex for George Ishler bicos e don find out say e don dey use im credit card buy things wey e no go fit approve.”

Geier talk say wen Ishler no fit bring di money, e offer di professor marijuana plants wey e dey grow by di quarry.

Geier tell police say di three of dim and her pikin drive go di quarry, and Ishler and Bettig waka go harvest di plants din Ishler come back alone.

“Na dat time she ask George, ‘Wia Ron dey?’ E talk say, “I don kill am. I don kill am and if you talk anything to anybody about am, I go kill you too, and I go kill your pikin,” defense lawyer Deborah Lux talk for Snapped.

George Ishler don confess say e don kill Dr. Bettig but e dey call Danelle Geier di mastermind

Wen police interview George Ishler again, e confess say e don kill, but e talk say Danelle Geier na di person wey plan everything.

“Im next statement na, ‘Danelle talk me make I do am. Danelle convince me make I kill am,’” Wakefield talk. “Im talk say na bicos Danelle wan Bettig’s money bicos of di will.”

“Im explain to us say im don write will, sabi say Ron mental state dey go down, and Ron don sign am.”

Di will provide motive for Danelle Geier to want Ronald Bettig dead.

“Di will talk say Danelle go inherit Ron house and George go be di executor of di rest of im estate,” Rushton talk.

“Danelle Geier think say she get about one million dollars for Disney stock, and she believe say she go be di person wey go collect am,” Cantorna add, although di stock turn out to be worth $50,000.

Ishler talk say afta Dr. Bettig discover say dem don dey charge im credit card, Geier relationship dey in trouble.

“Di whole matter dey come to end and Danelle no go get anywia to go and go dey outside wit her baby,” Weaver talk.

Both Ishler and Geier dey try togeda, and both of dem find guilty of first-degree murder for April 2018 and dem sentence dem to life for prison witout di possibility of parole.

“Why Danelle snap?

You wan know di real reason?

She lose her pikin. She lose custody of her pikin for Florida,” Cantorna talk. “And she need money.

“She wan get dat pikin back badly. I think say she believe say Dr. Bettig na million-dollar price tag.”

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