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Click on any underlined text to learn Kirsten's story.

You will find that "Transcript of Sentencing"

and "Appeal Denied" give comprehensive summaries.

Documents and photographs will be added from time to time, so check back. The events/documents below are posted chronologically.

  • Kirsten's death: January 23, 2008

Obituary - Kirsten Julia Maurer.docx (DOCX — 19 KB)

  • Preliminary hearing: April 3, 2008
Husband bound over for trial

"Murder charges in shock death"

York Daily Record, York, Pa.

  • Kirsten would have been 28: July 27, 2008

  • Trial: March 9-12, 2009
  • Guilty verdict: March 12, 2009
  • Letter to editor: May 8, 2009

"Murder victim's family grateful to police, prosecutors"

York Daily Record, York, Pa.

(Also published in York Dispatch, York, Pa.)

Letter to editor - York - Murder victim's family grateful - 5-8-09.docx (DOCX — 13 KB)

  • Sentencing: May 22, 2009

Family presents impact statements

Judge explains impact of trial on himself

and discusses domestic violence

Court imposes maximum sentence

Click on "Transcript of Sentencing" link below

for a summary of the entire case. Judge

explains why some testimony about husband

could not be introduced at trial (pp 16-17),

refers to Kirsten's death as a "specific act of torture" (p.18), and calls husband a "serial

domestic violence offender" and "sincere

and utter danger to the public" (p. 24).

  • Editorial: May 29, 2009

"Domestic violence can be deadly"

York Daily Record/Sunday News, York, Pa.

  • Celebration of Life, Friendship, and Justice: July 25, 2009

A summer celebration in memory of Kirsten

and in honor of all who have kept her voice alive.

More than 250 guests attended, including honorees Stan

Rebert, York County District Attorney;

Lower Windsor Township Police Sergeant

Tim Caldwell and Officer Kevin Leach;

York County detectives Stu Kozak and Julio Mendez; victim/witness advocates J.R. Waltemyer, Faith Uhler-Myers, and Donna Mayes; Susquehanna Township Police

Chief Rob Martin; and many other friends and family.

Catering by What If Cafe, Harrisburg, Pa.

  • Kirsten would have been 29: July 27, 2009

  • Article: September 3, 2009

Running in honor of electrocution victim"

York Dispatch, York, Pa.

Running in honor of electrocution murder victim - Evans - 9-3-2009.docx (DOCX — 73 KB)

Lauren Davison's First Giving Page-rev2010.docx (DOCX — 89 KB)

  • Radio show: September 23, 2009

"Domestic Violence Kills"

Radio Smart Talk, WITF 89.5 and 93.3 public radio, Harrisburg, Pa.

Peg Dierkers and Ellen Kramer (Pa. Coalition Against

Domestic Violence); Stephanie Maurer
http://www.witf.org/news/smart-talk/1985-domestic-violence-kills-radio-smart-talk-wednesday-september-23

  • Editorial: October 11, 2009

Violence against women leaves too many sad stories"

The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa.

  • Speaking engagement: December 2, 2009

"A Mother's Story"

Stephanie Maurer and Ellen Kramer

Jewish Community Center, Harrisburg, Pa.

  • Speaking engagement: April 29, 2010

"Kirsten's Story" and "Help for Crime Victims"

Stephanie Maurer and Ellen Kramer

In-house training

Pa Commission on Crime and Delinquency, Harrisburg, Pa.

  • Appeal denied: July 13, 2010

Superior Court of Pennsylvania denies husband's appeal.

Click on "Appeal Denied" below for

another good summary of entire case. The

judges call Kirsten's death "a brutal episode

of domestic violence" (p.1), refer to other

violent abuses including shocking another victim

20 years ago (pp 4-5), and cite the

"brutal circumstances of this case" (p.17) in

deciding to uphold the maximum sentence. 

Appeal Denied.pdf (PDF — 61 KB)

  • Kirsten would have been 30!! July 27, 2010

  • Named to PCADV board of directors: September 28, 2010

Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence

PCADV - board of directors - 9-28-10.docx (DOCX — 75 KB)

  • Speaking engagement: October 8, 2010

Stephanie Maurer

Domestic Violence First Responders Breakfast

YWCA of Greater Harrisburg, Harrisburg, Pa.

  • Interview: October 12, 2010

Stephanie Maurer

For video being made about YWCA of York/Access Program

WHP-TV studio, Harrisburg, Pa.

  • Speaking engagement: October 15, 2010

Stephanie Maurer

Sunflower Ball in memory of Toni Clouse Myers

(to benefit Domestic Violence Services of Cumberland/Perry Counties)

Radisson/Penn Harris, Camp Hill, Pa.

  • Financial help to abused women: February 2011

Donations made to Trinity Lutheran Church in memory

of Kirsten were forwarded to a Harrrisburg shelter for abused women.

  • Annual Victims' Rights March and Vigil: April 12, 2011

Stephanie Maurer, speaker

Also attending the march and lighting candles

in memory of Kirsten were Kirsten's father, Tom Maurer;

Kirsten's brothers, Thomas and Seth, as well as Seth's fiancee, Chirstina Fortin, and Thomas' girlfriend, Lauren Mills.

  • Article: April 2011

"One Mother, No Daughter" by Stephanie Garman Maurer

Newsletter, Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence

  • Kirsten would be 31: July 27, 2011


Happy Birthday, sweetheart. We miss you.

  • 32 today. July 27, 2012. Overwhelmingly sad without you. xoxo


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