Unsolved 1968 Murder of Binghamton North High French Teacher Irene Izak Heading to Canada Pulled Over in Thousand Islands by a Cop, It Was The 60's

Unsolved 1968 Murder of Binghamton North High French Teacher Irene Izak Heading to Canada Pulled Over in Thousand Islands by a Cop, It Was The 60's. Irene Izak was brutally murdered while on her way to Montreal, Quebec on June 10th, 1968. The last time she was seen alive was at 2:09 a.m. by a toll collector at Thousand Island Bridge who claimed Irene was visibly afraid. Irene Izak was only 25 years old when she was murdered, she was 5′ 0″ tall and 110 lbs, she had at least 3 skull fractures and her face was pushed 2 to 3 inches into to the mud. I have information from a former Binghamton North High student with direct links to very specific Police intel concerning the murder of North High French teacher Irene J. Izak by supposedly a New York State Trooper. “Dear Bill, I read your post on FB about the murder of Ms. Izak with great interest. I went to Binghamton North in 1966 to 1968. My brother went there from 1964 to 1967. We both had Ms. Izak for a French teacher. Ms. Izak came to our home and tutored my brother in French. We lived very near the high school. So, we knew her better than one would usually know a teacher. After she died, the police came to our house and questioned us about our connection to Ms. Izak. They concluded we had nothing to do with it, which, of course, we didn’t. My uncle was a Binghamton police officer, a detective on the Binghamton police force at the time. Here’s the interesting part. I never knew until now that this was an “unsolved” case! My uncle told us the trooper “went nuts” and killed her and he was “being treated”. They KNEW the trooper did it! It was covered up. Of course, my uncle isn’t the one who covered it up, but he knew about it and told us very matter of fact that the trooper did it. So, I never realized that it was considered unsolved. My uncle passed away twenty years ago. I remember that even when the newspaper account first came out, it sounded like the trooper did it, but then they “clarified” that he had pulled her over and later “found” her. They did say it was rocks, but, of course, it was the cop's heavy duty flashlight.” 

WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES, UPDATE 12/17/2010…”The body of Irene J. Izak, a 25-year-old French teacher originally from Scranton, Pa (Binghamton NY teacher), was found in a ditch near the grounds of DeWolf Point State Park on Wellesley Island early on June 10, 1968. She had been savagely bludgeoned about the head, although a revived investigation 12 years ago revealed a blow to the back of her neck was likely what killed her. The murder was reported by a state trooper, David N. Hennigan, who had stopped her car about an hour and 20 minutes earlier on Interstate 81 near Watertown. No arrest was ever made. Late in 1998, the victim’s remains were exhumed at a cemetery outside Scranton for examination by Dr. Michael Baden, chief forensic pathologist for the state police. He made the determination about a blow to her neck from a round cylinder item, like a cop's heavy duty flashlight.

1968 Cold Case Murder of Binghamton North High French Teacher Irene Izak leads to ex-state Trooper turned Priest David Hennigan. The case remains open assigned to Cold Case Unit said Trooper Jack Keller of NY State Police, Irene Izak was just 25 years old. Less than two hours later after being pulled over by state trooper David N. Hennigan, Irene was found bludgeoned to death in a ravine bordering DeWolf Point State Park. There were no signs of robbery or sexual assault. For reasons unknown, Irene had been compelled to pull off the interstate and abandon her car, only to be brutally murdered. There is no Statute of Limitations on a murder case, having no statute of limitations on murder allows law enforcement to occasionally solve cold cases like this one. The Media needs to get involved and put a burning spotlight on why the murder of Irene Izak never moved forward when there were several incriminating pieces of evidence that implicated the NYS Trooper in her murder. FBI needs to take over the investigation of Irene Izak's murder, the family of Irene Izak needs closure, she still has siblings in the Binghamton NY area, this is not 'CASE CLOSED', yet.

UPDATE JUNE 2023: 55 years ago a young, single woman was found brutally murdered in the middle of the night while on a road trip toward a new chapter in her life. The lead suspect? The state trooper who found her body less than two hours after pulling her over for speeding on Interstate 81, according to a longtime journalist who later wrote a book on the case. Now, another author is asking why, Thomas K. Reilly, a Connecticut-based writer, sued the State Police earlier this month after the agency denied his Freedom of Information requests for records connected to the investigation of Irene Izak’s death June 10, 1968. Izak, 25, was a Binghamton high school French teacher whose body was found in a wooded area off a highway near a state park on Wellesley Island, between the U.S. mainland and Canada. The Ukrainian refugee was on her way to Laval University in Quebec for a job interview. Reilly wants to look at the State Police files on the investigation that have remained hidden for more than 50 years. Shampine, a longtime Watertown Daily Times reporter who died in 2017, wrote the book “The North Country Murder of Irene Izak — Stained By Her Blood,” which explored the woman's death and laid out the circumstantial evidence against David Hennigan.

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