Former CEO of Alpo Pet Foods Murders Wife
Reports by neighbors say the couple lived there about a year and sound those violins please they "were a lovely couple". I am sure in the days ahead it will be said that Sestak just snapped and that will be the end of the explaination. But, the media needs to place more emphasis on the victims here in each case. So that others from the general public see these stories, understand that a man has committed the act of murder, he was not a wonderful person, he did not just wake up and decide to do this, this was a planned ,calculated event, a real tragedy is when the headlines sound as though one is selling cookies. Please start headlining these cases as homicides/murders and provide information on the victim and also what people can do when they are married to individuals who are violent, abusive or stalking.
Detectives are investigating a murder-suicide. The ex-Chairman and CEO of the former ALPO Petfoods is dead. His wife is, too. The coroner says he killed her and then himself. The two are identified as 75- year-old Joseph Sestak and his 71- year-old wife Carol. Their bodies were found this morning just before christmas in their home in the 400 block of Heritage Lane.
NAZARETH, Pa. - The former CEO of Alpo Petfoods Inc. and his wife were found dead of gunshot wounds inside their home, the result of a murder-suicide, county officials said.
Joseph Sestak, 75, killed his wife, Carol, 71, and then himself inside their Lower Nazareth Township home, Northampton County Coroner Zachary Lysek said.
Mark Sestak found his parents' bodies Friday morning, next door neighbor Richard Tredinnick told The Morning Call of Allentown.
"My dad's dead. He shot himself," Tredinnick said Mark Sestak yelled. "He was distraught. I mean, really upset."
Lysek has ruled Joseph Sestak's death a suicide as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He ruled Carol Sestak's death a homicide as a result of a gunshot wound. Lysek said Saturday that he was able to rule that the deaths were a suicide and a homicide before the autopsy, but would not comment on what specific evidence he used to reach those determinations.
"Based on the evidence, that's the decision I made," Lysek told The Associated Press on Saturday afternoon.
In a statement Friday night, the Colonial Regional police said they were not pursuing any leads for suspects in the death.
The Sestaks retired to Florida about seven years ago before returning to the area in August 2006.
Joseph Sestak was named president of Allen Products Co. Inc. in Allentown, the maker of Alpo pet foods, in March 1981 and became chairman and chief executive officer in 1987.
He graduated from the old Churchman Business College in Easton in 1956, attended Muhlenberg College in Allentown and served four years in the Air Force during the Korean War, The Morning Call reported.
