Did This Anti-vaxxer Kill Because of the COVID Vaccine?
Authorities connected three murders in two Maryland counties. An elderly woman was killed in Allegany County. More than 100 miles away, a husband and wife were shot in Howard County. The manhunt lasted 18 hours.
The suspect was Cumberland resident Jeffrey Allen Burnham. After his capture, court documents alleged that Burnham murdered his pharmacist brother (and two others) because of false beliefs about the COVID-19 vaccine.
The Murders
On the evening of September 29, Ron Kifer, a Cumberland, Maryland, resident checked on his 83-year-old friend and neighbor, Rebecca (Becky) Jewell Reynolds, worried because he hadn’t seen her recently. When he found her on her couch, he thought she’d died of a heart attack, so he called 911. It became clear that she was a murder victim. The police were called in next.
Who would want to murder 83-year-old Rebecca? According to her obituary, she was a retired teacher who taught for 35 years. Investigators found signs of a struggle. Neighbors said she was a feisty woman who would have put up a fight. Who struggles with an 83-year-old woman, shattering a vase and knocking over a…
