5 years ago by Scott Hardy
Marilyn Kramer and William Brewer will now go on trial June 17
Two Quincy residents, indicted in the deaths last fall of two children in a Quincy house fire, have had their trials delayed a month, after a hearing Wednesday.
Marilyn Kramer and William Brewer were both in Adams County Circuit Court for status hearings. They were both set to go on trial Mary 13th, but that's been pushed back to June 17th. Both their public defenders said they weren't ready for trial then. The trial's being held the week of the 17th, because that's the only time a prosecution expert, an electrical engineer, will be available before he's deployed to Afghanistan in July for a year. Kramer and Brewer were indicted in mid-January by an Adams County Grand Jury on two counts of Involuntary Manslaughter and two counts of Child Endangerment. The charges are in connection with an October 12th, 2018 fire that resulted in the deaths of 8 year old Toby Brewer and 5 year old Emma Kramer. The Rooney Elementary School students died of smoke inhalation as a result of the fire at a home in the 600 block of North 8th Street. Prosecutors allege the elder Kramer and Brewer stole electricity from a neighboring home via damaged extension cords, which were run under a mattress. The cord malfunctioned, which allegedly caused the fatal fire.
Kramer and Brewer are both in the Adams County Jail on $25,000 bond. If convicted on all charges, both face from 8 to 20 years in prison.
