James Puerale was 27 when he died on August 22, 1980, in Falls Township, Pennsylvania. His death led to a major criminal trial that focused on a violent episode with multiple victims.

George Gregory Orlowski and co-defendant Victor Hassine were tried in connection with the case. A jury found Orlowski guilty of first-degree murder for Puerale’s death and also convicted him of the attempted murders of Albert Skip Kellet Jr., Lois Kellet, and George Sofield, along with numerous counts of criminal conspiracy and criminal solicitation. The trial record ran nine days and produced over eighteen hundred pages of testimony. Orlowski received a life sentence; post-verdict motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment were denied and the conviction and sentence were upheld, with various concurrent prison terms imposed.

Does anyone have additional information about Puerale or the events in Falls Township in August 1980 that could shed more light on this case?