AMVETS commander speaks out on murder

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AMVETS commander speaks out on murder
By STEPHEN ORAVECZ Tribune Chronicle
The AMVETS national commander turned up the heat Thursday to get Brazil to return a murder suspect for trial in Trumbull County.

John P. ‘‘JP’’ Brown asked members of the U.S. Senate and House Veterans Affairs committees to support efforts to extradite Claudia Hoerig, who is accused of murdering her husband, Air Force Maj. Karl Hoerig, who was a decorated Iraq war veteran.

‘‘The case has been stalled in light of Mrs. Hoerig returning to Brazil, her native country,’’ Brown, AMVETS national commander, told a joint meeting of the veterans affairs committees.

‘‘I request that each of you support the Department of of Justice in extraditing Mrs. Hoerig so she can stand trial for the crime of which she is accused, and allow the family of an American hero to have some closure in this tragic event.’’

Brown’s statement was the first from a national veterans group.
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Karl Hoerig was a real American hero. The decorated Army reservist piloted nearly 200 combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan during his military career.

It Starts Online And Ends In Murder

Claudia Hoerig met her husband -- and alleged victim -- on an online dating site.


View LargerOhio cops are searching for Claudia Hoerig, a woman they say killed her husband Karl on March 12, 2007 in Newton Falls.

Hoerig met her husband online through a dating service. After just a six-week courtship, they were married at a chapel in Las Vegas in June 2005.

Even though the marriage was short, prosecutors say it was plenty rocky. The couple's marital problems were so bad that investigators say Karl spoke to friends and colleagues about how unhappy he was with Claudia, and that he feared what she would do. He even allegedly told a fellow Southwest Airlines pilot that he planned to move out of the house on Monday March 12, and that the marriage had always been bad.

Trumbull County Sheriff's deputies say the union reached its worst point on March 12, when Claudia Hoerig shot her husband three times, killing him. Then, they say that using her privileges as a wife of a pilot, Hoerig flew first to New York on a free airline ticket the very same day and then on to her native Brazil.


Marshals say Hoerig plotted the murder of her husband, who was a decorated hero with the U.S. Armed Forces.

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