Kevin Ewing allegedly kidnapped Tierne on Tuesday and she was found dead after a daylong manhunt. She told tellers she was being held captive and they called police, who arrested Kevin Ewing in a vehicle outside, armed with a rifle, handgun and knife.
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Unfortunately for police, Ewing’s ankle bracelet is of the sort that merely alerts authorities if he leaves his house, not where he’s heading. He went on to say he blamed the judge, for his daughter’s death, because Ewing was allowed to remain free after posting the $100,000 bond. She informed the teller there about what her husband was doing to her, and the teller phoned the police. The office said an autopsy is pending as Ew.
Tierne Ewing escaped when her husband sent her into a credit union to withdraw money and she told tellers she was being held against her will and feared that her husband would kill her, the complaint said. Sapida learned that no one was notified when the ankle bracelet was cut.
Police tell WPXI that they heard gunshots as they approached a barn in West Finley Township late Tuesday. He said that Ewing had beaten her on a number of occassions.
This undated driver’s license photo provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation shows Tierne Ewing of West Finley Township, Pa. Pennsylvania State Police said Ewing was found dead Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016, after she was kidnapped by her husband Kevin Ewing, who was hospitalized with a self-inflicted gunshot wound after police forced their way into a barn several miles from where the woman was abducted.
It was not immediately clear if the couple proceeded on foot or in another vehicle, but police warned that Ewing should be considered armed and risky. The barn was located in West Finley Township, close to the West Virginia state line. Kevin Ewing had been out on bond and under home confinement on charges he beat his wife and abducted her from June 26 to July 8, 2016.
The estranged husband of Tierne Ewing, the woman found dead in a Pennsylvania barn Tuesday night, has been declared brain dead.
Tierne Ewing, 48, had told authorities he beat and pistol-whipped her, spat on her, kept her hands tied with wire and branded her legs with a piece of hot metal, according to a criminal complaint charging him with kidnapping, aggravated assault, terroristic threats, false imprisonment and other crimes. He is scheduled to be arraigned in the Washington County Courthouse on October 12. Earlier this summer, he had held her captive for nearly two weeks.
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Tierne’s father, Richard Kopko, told reporters his daughter was “scared to death” of her husband.
