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Hyde Park man guilty of third-degree murder in wife's 2017 death

Jeffrey Fondrk is escorted into District Judge Cheryl Peck Yakopec’s office in Allegheny Township for a preliminary hearing in 2019. Fondrk was convicted Thursday of third-degree murder for the 2017 death of his wife, Patricia, in their Hyde Park home.

Jeffrey Mark Fondrk told a jury Thursday that as his wife lay unconscious on the floor of their Hyde Park home, he extracted a gate from under her body and stepped over her to pour a glass of Pepsi and did so again to sit on a sofa and watch television.


Source: The Tribune-Review