

I don’t know, she was just that type of child, a good kid,” Polo said. If you were new at her school or whatever, she was your friend she was the first one you would meet. Her laugh, her smile, she was very outgoing. If you met her once, you could never forget her. Polo described her daughter as a friendly young woman whose death she still grieves. “We’ve just been waiting for this all these years, and it brings us peace to know that it is finally happening,” said Lang’s niece, Alexis Malletz. 9.įor Lang’s family, Ream’s arrest was a long time coming.

He is being held in Westmoreland County Prison without bond as he awaits a preliminary hearing scheduled for Aug. Ream, 53, was charged with criminal homicide, burglary, robbery and theft. Police said Samantha Lang was beaten and stabbed to death in her Derry Township home by Charles Earl Ream as part of a dispute over money and drugs. “I didn’t think I would see this,” Polo said Thursday at a news conference held the day after police arrested and charged a Derry Township man in the 2007 murder of her 22-year-old daughter. Carol Polo waited years to hear the news she received this week.
