She retired as a judge after reaching statutory retirement age in 2006, her husband recalled. In retirement, Tschiember sometimes lectured on the Shulman case to others in the Florida community, complete with graphic crime scene images, said John Tschiember.Īfter quitting her post as Suffolk District Attorney, Tschiember filled a vacancy as a judge in Suffolk County District Court in 2002 and won the election that same year.
Read the stories and memories of our loved ones, friends, and family who have passed away.īy clicking on Register, you agree to our privacy policy. Sign up for Newsday’s In Memoriam newsletter. “It was shocking to see these bodies,” said Tschiember Newsday outside a Suffolk courtroom after Shulman was convicted in 1999, and said the brutality of the murders had shaken her to the core. The horror of the murders struck Tschiember, the lead prosecutor, deeply and haunted her all her life. He died in state prison in 2006 at the age of 52. Shulman’s sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment after New York State’s death penalty law was repealed as unconstitutional.
SERIAL KILLER GEORGIA SERIAL
One of the most memorable cases of Tschiember was that of serial killer Robert Shulman of Hicksville, Long Island, convicted in 1999 of the murder of three women for whom he received the death penalty. Her 47-year-old husband, retired Suffolk detective John Tschiember, said he and his wife also had a home in Florida, where they spent the winter months as “snowbirds”. Georgia Tschiember, a former Suffolk judge who worked as a prosecutor on the Robert Shulman serial murder case, died Friday after a brief illness at her home in Fort Salonga, her family said.
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