2 weeks Ago By Mike Jones
The fiancé of Jennah Marie Seibert told emergency responders that he came home to their Rostraver Township house Friday and found her dead in their bed with her throat apparently slashed, according to a search warrant filed Tuesday by investigating officers. Bryan J. Murray told the responding Rostraver Township police officers he had “not heard from” Seibert, so he went to their house at 400 Lenity School Road around noon and walked upstairs to find her “murdered” in bed with the sheets covered in blood.
“She’s dead,” Murray told police, according to the affidavit in the search warrant. “Oh my God. You need to get these people who killed her.
They stole her car.” Police officers went upstairs and found Seibert, 24, lying face up with blood around her neck and head area, the warrant states. Murray told police that the power to the house had been cut and he believed whoever had killed Seibert used one of his knives to slash her throat.
It’s not known where Murray, 41, was before Seibert’s death or how long he was away from the house. The black SUV that the couple co-owned was later located in Monongahela. The Westmoreland County District Attorney’s office issued a press release Monday disclosing that Seibert had been shot to death and police were investigating the killing as a homicide.
Melanie Jones, who is the district attorney’s spokeswoman, could not be reached for comment Tuesday afternoon on the discrepancy between the details in the office’s press release and the account in the search warrant. The search warrant detailing Seibert’s killing and Murray’s reaction was filed by Rostraver Township police at District Judge Mark Wilson’s office in Monongahela since that is where the SUV was located. The warrant was returned Tuesday morning with a flash drive of the exterior surveillance video from the CFS Bank at 1220 W.
Main St. in Monongahela showing the black SUV passing through the city’s main business district. According to the warrant, the SUV had been tracked using surveillance videos from other businesses and various license plate readers in the area, although the driver could not be identified while behind the wheel.
Additional search warrants were believed to be filed at District Judge Wayne Vlasic’s office in Monessen, although Vlasic declined to comment when contacted by a reporter Tuesday asking whether they were sealed or are currently at his office. Authorities have released few details about the homicide except for surveillance video of a mustachioed man they’ve labeled a “person of interest” in the case purchasing cigarettes and snacks at an unidentified convenience store in Monongahela shortly after 9 a.m.
Friday. The SUV was found abandoned on a nearby street, investigators previously said. Jones previously said Murray was not considered a person of interest in the homicide, but she declined to reveal why investigators had apparently ruled him out.
Rostraver Township police Chief Scott Sokol did not return multiple calls seeking comment on the case. No charges had been filed in the homicide as of Tuesday afternoon. Seibert recently announced that she had started a position as director of talent acquisition of The Cotter Group, according to a Facebook post on the employment agency’s page.
The company was incorporated in January and listed its headquarters address at 701 Millers Run Road in South Fayette, although the property appeared to be geared toward construction work when a reporter visited there Tuesday, and the front offices were empty with no signage representing Cotter as a tenant. Seibert’s obituary stated she and Murray were set to be married in October. Staff writers Paul Paterra and Jon Andreassi contributed to this report.
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