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Murder suspect facing trial

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Alois Kudlach enters a preliminary hearing at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte on Thursday, where a judge ordered him to stand trial.

By Clayton Over
cover@centredaily.com

College Twp. man accused of shooting wife

BELLEFONTE The man accused of murdering his wife in College Township late last month is
headed to trial.
State College police arrested
Alois Kudlach, 49, last week after a
shooting that left Nuria Kudlach,
51, dead. District Judge Allen Sinclair bound over first- and third-degree murder, aggravated assault
and communications charges after
a more than hour-long preliminary
hearing Thursday afternoon.
An additional charge, a misdemeanor count of possession of an
instrument of crime, was added by
prosecutors Thursday and also
bound over for trial.
The circumstances of the shooting were a matter of dispute at the

hearing Thursday. District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller described

the events of Aug. 30 as a vicious
murder, but Kudlach told police
when questioned after the incident
that he shot his wife in self-defense.
Karen Muir, Kudlachs attorney, also asked Sinclair to drop the firstdegree murder charge.
Only one witness was called
Thursday, State College police Detective Ralph Ralston. Much of his
testimony was based on the contents of the criminal complaint filed
last week at Kudlachs arraignment, but also included the findings of an autopsy report conducted after the shooting.
State College police responded

to Kudlachs home at 310 Gregor

Way on Aug. 30 after Kudlach
called 911. The call was played in
court Thursday. Kudlach calmly
told the dispatcher that his wife
came at him with a knife in the familys kitchen and he shot her.
Investigators found that Nuria
Kudlach had been shot three times
with a .45 caliber pistol and was declared dead on the scene.
Detectives interviewed Alois,
who reported that Nuria had taken
the knife out and placed it on the
kitchen table that morning, which
concerned him and he grabbed the
pistol from another room and
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NORTH ATHERTON STREET

A look back at our

Defining moment
Where were you when? Centre County remembers 9/11
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The State College Eatn Park will be closing in October.

After 24 years,
Eatn Park
plans to close
By Shawn Annarelli
sannarelli@centredaily.com

State College will lose its smile.

Or at least its Smiley cookies.
Eatn Park will shut down Oct. 4
after 24 years in business on
North Atherton Street. The reason was staring everyone right in
the face during lunch hour Thursday the parking lot had just
eight cars in it, some undoubtedly
employees, who were told
Wednesday night about the closure.
Theyre sad its ending, but I

think they understand, Eatn

Park spokesman Kevin OConnell said.
OConnell confirmed that the
business that once boomed in the
1990s and 2000s had sales drop
off in recent years despite efforts
to increase more traffic to the eatery.
Weve been there for almost 25
years, so weve been there for a
long time, OConnell said. It just
wasnt sustainable (anymore) ...
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CHILD SEX OFFENSES

Lee faces two

additional counts
By Clayton Over
cover@centredaily.com

CDT file photo

Penn State junior Rachel Livesey watches the news of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, in the HUB-Robeson Center.
From CDT staff reports

Sept. 11 is more than just a date on a calendar. A

series of horrors took that Tuesday morning in
2001 and turned it into a touchstone.
Like the Kennedy assassination or the Challenger disaster, it is a defining moment, a where
were you when experience that lets people connect both to each other and to the feelings they
had that day that hijackers stole four planes and
drove them into the hearts of New York and

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Washington, D.C., and a field in Pennsylvania.

It touched lives everywhere, and in Centre
County, some people are looking back on the day
and its aftermath.

State College Area School District Superintendent Bob ODonnell was the assistant principal at
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Charges against former Harris

Township supervisor and Boal
Mansion CEO Christopher Lee
continue to add up as a Federal
grand jury handed down an additional indictment Wednesday.
Lee, 66, faces two additional
counts of child sex offenses, this
time stemming from incidents
from 2005 through 2006, according to court documents filed by
federal prosecutors. He is suspected
of
persuading
a
14-year-old, referred to in the documents as John Doe #2, to travel
to Centre County to engage in sexual activity.
Lee has been in custody on
child sex abuse and pornography
charges since October, when he

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was first indicted

by a federal grand
jury on charges of
alleged use of facilities in interstate
commerce to coerce and entice a
minor to engage in
Lee
unlawful sexual activity, transportation of a minor
with the intent to engage in sexual
activity and receipt and possession of child pornography.
The original charges stem from
alleged incidents between January and June 2014 that occurred
on the Boal Mansion Museum
premises. The museums activities include a docent program in
which American and international
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