Letters: Marie Noe: An unspeakable crime, unpunished

I WAS the prosecutor who referred to Marie Noe as a serial killer on the order of Ted Bundy. At the time, I was making a legal argument and was't sure my description was apt.

Ten years later, after reading Barbara Laker's article, I'm convinced I was more right than I knew. The reason Mrs. Noe "waits to die" is she knows the enormity of the crimes she's committed and, having escaped punishment, can't live with herself. She knows what the reporter doesn't: that living life alone in one's own home is not a life sentence. It's not a sentence at all.

And like Raskolnikov in Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment," her soul can't rest until she's answered for her crime and purged herself of the guilt. I imagine the article is equally jarring to every person who read it. A failure of justice on this scale gives everyone a sense that evil has not been restrained and is free to walk among us.

Jay Feinschil, Philadelphia