The History of Marjorie Deal Armstrong

Marjorie Deal Armstrong asked Bill Rothstein to dispose of her boyfriend James Rodin's body after he had been shot in the back with a 12-gauge shotgun. She wanted him to use a chainsaw to cut up the frozen body and feed it into an ice chipper so that she could scatter pieces throughout Erie County at a later time. He refused, which led authorities to ask why he agreed to help Marjorie dispose of his lover's body for over five weeks. In 1984, when she was 35 years old, Marjorie was charged with the murder of her then-boyfriend Robert Thomas.