Three Charged for After Mysterious Disappearance and Death in Kennedy Township

The blue lights of a police car, set upon a blue sky background.
The blue lights of a police car, set upon a blue sky background.

KENNEDY TOWNSHIP, PA – The Allegheny County Police Department has charged three men in connection with the disappearance and death of George Dayieb, a 57-year-old from Murrysville.

On December 27, Kennedy Township Police found an unoccupied black Ford F-350 belonging to Dayieb, who had been reported missing. Allegheny County Police Department’s Homicide and General Investigation Units took over the investigation.

Investigations revealed Dayieb left his home on the morning of December 27 to collect a debt from Jeremy Fisher, 41, of Coraopolis. Security footage showed Dayieb entering Fisher’s vehicle near a Coraopolis gas station.

Further evidence from interviews, cell phone data, and surveillance videos indicated Fisher, along with William Fortuna, 58, of Conway, PA, and Braden Elliott, 20, of Chicora, PA, planned to murder Dayieb. Dayieb was reportedly shot in Fisher’s vehicle and taken to a property in Clarion County.

On December 29, authorities discovered Dayieb’s body in a trailer on the Clarion County property, with a gunshot wound to the head.

Fisher, Fortuna, and Elliott face charges including criminal homicide, criminal conspiracy, and abuse of a corpse.