COOPERSTOWN – A former Unadilla man, and current state prisoner, was arrested on a sealed indictment Monday morning, June 27, at Attica Correctional Facility. He was charged with second-degree murder in the death of his wife, Elizabeth Welsh Callahan.
According to the Otsego County District Attorney's Office, it is alleged that Casey James Callahan, now 50, intentionally ran over his wife, Elizabeth Welsh Callahan, with a tractor trailer in a Dandy Mini Mart parking lot in Sayre, Pa., just off New York State Highway 17, at Exit 59A (Wilawana), on Jan. 19, 2000. Elizabeth Callahan, formally of Norwich, was 34 at the time of her death.