HE'LL BE THERE QUITE A WHILE: THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, DECEMBER 19, 1975

"You're an evil man, Joseph Kallinger," Judge John C. Dowling told the Philadelphia shoemaker, and then he gave him 80 years. The sentence, handed down in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and carried by the Associated Press to the Salt Lake Tribune of December 19, 1975, came close to the most the law allowed: 20 years on each of four robbery counts, with concurrent terms for burglary and related charges and a chance of parole in 30 years. Kallinger was 39, the dispatch says, and the headline writer in Utah summed it up in six words: "He'll Be There Quite a While."

The crime behind the sentence was a robbery on December 3, 1974, at a home in suburban Harrisburg, where four women were tied up and robbed. His partner was his son Michael, then 12, who had already been judged a delinquent and sent to a state youth facility. Dowling called Kallinger "utterly vile and depraved" and said the crime, with a child drawn into it, "stamps you as violent and dangerous." He cited testimony that Kallinger had warned the women what would happen if they identified him: "the court system being what it is, I'll be out in no time and get you." "You are wrong," the judge told him, and announced the term.

The final paragraph points to what was still to come. Kallinger was charged with murder in New Jersey and was fighting extradition, and the crimes there, the dispatch says, also involved a father-son team and included sexual assaults. The murder was that of Maria Fasching, a 21-year-old nurse who had stopped by a house in Leonia on January 8, 1975, to look in on an elderly woman and was stabbed to death in its basement. A Bergen County jury convicted him in October 1976 and he was sentenced to life, to begin only when this Pennsylvania term ran out. It never did. He died in prison at Cresson in 1996, still serving the 80 years Dowling gave him.

This is an Associated Press wire story about a sentencing, written before any murder trial, and it is not a court record. The "allegedly" in its account of the robbery is the wire's caution; by this point Kallinger had been convicted at a retrial on nine felony counts. The paper gives his age as 39, while his records put his birth on December 11, 1935, which would make him 40 that week; the two have never agreed. Besides the murder of Maria Fasching, Kallinger was later convicted in Pennsylvania of killing his son Joseph Jr. and a ten-year-old boy, José Collazo, deaths this dispatch does not mention. The four women in the Harrisburg house survived; the paper does not name them, and they are not named here.

The story ran on page A7 of the Salt Lake Tribune on December 19, 1975, as Associated Press wire copy with no staff byline, under a photograph credited "Associated Press Wirephoto." The scan comes from Utah Digital Newspapers at the J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, which rates this issue "No Copyright - United States." There is no copyright notice on the story or on the issue's masthead; the only notices in the issue are attached to particular syndicated items on other pages.

The story runs as one narrow column under the photograph, and both are captured: the text in one crop and the Wirephoto with its caption in another. Every word was legible. The transcription follows the print exactly, keeping "80 year sentence" without its hyphen and the two small subheads, "Other Terms" and "Judge's View," where the paper set them. A few words printed letter-spaced to fill out short lines are given as ordinary words.

Transcription

Transcribed word for word from the page scan. Original spelling, punctuation, capitalisation and typographical errors have been kept exactly as printed. Unreadable words are marked [illegible]. Nothing has been modernised or corrected.

He'll Be There Quite a While

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Joseph Kallinger, a Philadelphia shoemaker accused of conducting a three-state string of father-son crime, was sentenced Thursday to 80 years in prison on a robbery conviction.

"You're an evil man, Joseph Kallinger," Judge John C. Dowling said as he imposed sentence.

The 80 year sentence, which includes a provision under which Kallinger could be eligible for parole in 30 years, was near the maximum allowed by law.

Other Terms

Kallinger, 39, got 20 years for each of four counts of robbery. The Dauphin County judge also sentenced him to concurrent terms for burglary and other related charges.

The charges stemmed from a Dec. 3, 1974, robbery in which Kallinger and his son Michael, then 12, allegedly tied up and robbed four women at a suburban Harrisburg home. Michael has been judged a delinquent and sent to a state youth facility.

"Society needs protection," Dowling said. He called Kallinger "utterly vile and depraved" and said the crime and the involvement of Kallinger's son "stamps you as violent and dangerous."

Dowling also referred to testimony in which Kallinger was quoted as telling his victims that if they identified him, "the court system being what it is, I'll be out in no time and get you."

Judge's View

"You are wrong," Dowling said to Kallinger, and then announced the prison term.

Kallinger has also been charged with murder and other crimes in New Jersey and is fighting extradition to that state. The New Jersey crimes also allegedly involved a father-son team and included sexual assaults. Kallinger was also charged with assault in Baltimore, Md.

[Photo caption] —Associated Press Wirephoto Joseph Kallinger, Philadelphia, is sentenced for robbery of Harrisburg, Pa., home.

Notes: "80 year sentence" is printed without a hyphen. Several words are letter-spaced to fill short lines. The story runs as a single narrow column below the photograph, which carries an Associated Press Wirephoto credit. The photograph and its caption are supplied separately as ARTICLE-CROP-PHOTO.jpg. No words were illegible.