The court schedule this week includes a status conference for 21-year-old Robert Jack, who is scheduled to appear before Westmoreland County Judge Meghan Bilik-DeFazio on Tuesday.
Jack has already admitted he was the gunman who shot and killed 71-year-old Alice Robson at her home along Furnace Lane, outside of New Florence in Saint Clair Township, in December of 2023. Co-defendants Melissa Fox-Beacom and Matthew Bates have already been convicted of the murder and sentenced to life in prison. Both have appealed in State Superior Court, claiming that Jack was an out-of-control killer and they could do nothing to stop him, but prosecutors say Fox-Beacom planned the killing and convinced Jack and Bates to shoot her mother, and bury the body underneath her back porch.
Jack told police that he kept the gun in a plastic bag in his vehicle for several days after the shooting and then tossed it into Donegal Lake, southwest of Ligonier.
