Convicted murderer appeals child starvation conviction

Published September 14, 2008 05:21 am -
A man serving a life term in the 2003 starvation death of his daughter is appealing his conviction, alleging that some child welfare caseworkers’ documents were altered and others were destroyed.

Convicted murderer appeals child starvation conviction

KITTANNING (AP) — A man serving a life term in the 2003 starvation death of his daughter is appealing his conviction, alleging that some child welfare caseworkers’ documents were altered and others were destroyed.
James Tatar, 46, was convicted of first-degree murder in the death of 4-year-old Kristen Tatar, whose 11½-pound body was found stuffed into a picnic cooler put out for garbage collectors near her Armstrong County home in August 2003.
Tatar’s attorney, Jeffrey Miller, contends that a forensic document examiner determined that four documents from the Westmoreland County Children’s Bureau, which had been working with Tatar’s parents, had been altered.

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