radioNOVO News for Altoona: May 7, 2026

RNN ALTOONA 05/07/26          GRUESOME TESTIMONY BEGAN YESTERDAY IN THE ATTEMPTED HOMICIDE TRIAL FOR RAYMOND OECHSLE JUNIOR.......... THE MAN ACCUSED OF A BRUTAL 2023 STABBING INSIDE THE BLAIR COUNTY PRISON. JURORS WERE SHOWN BLOODIED MAKESHIFT WEAPONS ALLEGEDLY USED TO ATTACK TWO INMATES. ONE CORRECTIONS OFFICER TESTIFIED THE SCENE WAS SO TRAUMATIC HE QUIT HIS JOB THAT DAY. EVIDENCE ALSO INCLUDED A LETTER WHERE OECHSLE REPORTEDLY SCOUTED THE ATTACK DAYS IN ADVANCE. OECHSLE, WHO IS ALSO AWAITING TRIAL FOR A SEPARATE MURDER, WAS NOTABLY ABSENT FROM THE COURTROOM, THOUGH HE MAY APPEAR TODAY TO DECIDE WHETHER HE WANTS TO TESTIFY.          MEANTIME, JURORS IN THE TRIAL OF AUSTIN KLINE, THE MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING AND DISMEMBERING AN ALTOONA CONTRACTOR IN 2023 HEARD GRAPHIC TESTIMONY FROM STATE POLICE AND THE CAMBRIA COUNTY CORONER, WHO DESCRIBED FINDING THE REMAINS OF 55-YEAR-OLD RICHARD MORGAN HIDDEN UNDER BLANKETS IN A GARAGE ON KLINE’S PROPERTY. INVESTIGATORS SAY MORGAN HAD BEEN SHOT AND BLUDGEONED BEFORE HIS BODY WAS DISMEMBERED WITH A SAW. THE PROSECUTION ALSO DETAILED KLINE’S "OVER-PREPARED" DEMEANOR DURING INITIAL QUESTIONING, WHICH LED TO GRISLY DISCOVERY. THE TRIAL RESUMES TODAY IN CAMBRIA COUNTY COURT.