TIMELINE OF EVENTS IN BERKS INVESTIGATION
Sept. 23, 4:37 p.m.
State police receive a call from Berks County 911 for a report of two victims, siblings age 8 and 4,
found hanging and unresponsive in the basement of a home at 2442 Route 143 in Albany Township. The children were found by their mother, Lisa R. Snyder, 36, police report.
4:41 p.m.
Two Kempton Fire department EMTs arrive on scene and find the children hanging 3 feet apart from a “single wired cable with plastic coating and ends containing swivel eye snap hooks,” according to a search warrant return filed in the death investigation. The wire was wrapped around the main support beam of the basement and each end of wire wrapped around the necks of 8-year-old Conner Snyder and his 4-year-old sister, Brinley. Alongside the victims were two wooden dining room chairs knocked over.
Snyder tells a 911 dispatcher that Conner was bullied and had “
made threats of doing this, but didn’t want to go alone,” according to a recording of the incident.
Authorities
do not release details about how the children died, but say their deaths are under investigation and there is no danger to the public.
Sept. 24 through Sept. 30
Authorities take several things from the home including electronic devices and cellphones, computers, an iPad and Conner’s X-box gaming system.
Police say they are also seeking “a medium, black pit bull mixed dog, the dog’s weight on a scale and any photos of the dog.” Investigators say Snyder told them she owned the dog, that weighed about 50 pounds, and the dog was kept outside on the wire cable lead found wrapped around her children’s necks. Police say Snyder told them the dog had been given away.
Oct. 2
Police return to Snyder’s
home to seize several more cellphones that they say they learned about in an interview with Snyder’s oldest son.
Oct. 12
Family and friends gather
outside the Kempton Community Center for a balloon launch on what would have been Conner Snyder’s ninth birthday. In the crowd was 17-year-old Owen Snyder, Conner and Brinley’s older brother. Lisa Snyder did not attend.
Nov. 10
Lisa Snyder created her own Facebook group called “Remembering Conner & Brinley.” Snyder posted dozens of photos of her children.
Nov. 21
Snyder posts on her Facebook group that she’s turning off comments on her page after the media reported on the page.
Dec. 2
Lisa Snyder is
charged with first-degree murder, third-degree murder, tampering with evidence, endangering the welfare of children, animal cruelty and sexual intercourse with a dog in connection with the deaths of her children. According to court records, Snyder is being held in Berks County jail without bail.
Timeline of events in investigation of Berks children found hanged in basement
