Caleb Fairley

Caleb Fairley
Born	Pennsylvania
Charge(s)	two counts of murder, robbery, two counts of aggravated assault, abuse of a corpse
Penalty	two life terms
Status	in prison
Spouse	none
Children	none

Caleb Fairley (born October 21, 1973) is an American murderer from Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania.

Crime

On September 10, 1995, Fairley was working alone at Your Kidz & Mine, a children's clothing store owned by his parents in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Just before closing time Lisa Manderach (born September 30, 1965) and her 19-month-old daughter Devon (born February 4, 1994) entered the store. Fairley locked the doors to the store when he realized that they were the only customers present. He then attempted to sexually assault Manderach. When she attempted to resist him, he became enraged and strangled her to death. He also strangled Manderach's infant daughter. After the murder he sexually assaulted Manderach's corpse, before going to an Electric Hellfire Club concert that he had been planning to attend that night.

Arrest and trial

Unbeknownst to Fairley, Lisa Manderach had told her husband exactly where she was going. When she did not return he contacted local police, who found her car parked outside. A search of Your Kidz & Mine revealed stacks of pornography stained with what appeared to be blood and long black hairs consistent with Manderach's. Similar hairs were found in the store's vacuum cleaner. Also present was a large damp spot on the carpet that was later determined to be saliva. The police also noted that peepholes had been drilled into the dressing rooms.

A search of Fairley's room in his mother's house revealed an extensive collection of pornography and a black sweatshirt that depicted an image of a vampire attacking a young woman that bore a striking resemblance to Lisa Manderach. Based on this, detectives began to suspect that upon seeing Manderach in the store, Fairley, an avid fan of vampire culture, thought of his sweatshirt and took Manderach's appearance as a sort of supernatural message. He then proceeded to act out his fantasies upon Manderach and her daughter.

When police questioned Fairley, he was wearing a thick coat of makeup on his face. When detectives told him to wipe it off, his face was covered with obvious scratch marks. When this was pointed out to Fairley by authorities, he said that he had received them in a mosh pit while attending an Electric Hellfire Club concert, at a local club called the Asylum. When hikers discovered Devon Manderach's strangled body dumped on a hill at Valley Forge National Park, Fairley was charged with murder. Fairley entered a plea bargain in which prosecutors would not seek the death penalty if he would show them the location of Lisa Manderach's body.

Fairley was tried in April 1996 and convicted on two counts of first-degree murder, for which he received two life sentences. He is currently incarcerated at a state correctional facility in LaBelle, Pennsylvania.