Man Avoids Charges of Attempted Murder

A man won’t be tried on charges he handed his 4-year-old daughter a 220-volt cable and turned on the power in another attempt to kill a relative for insurance money, prosecutors said in Williamsport, Pa. The man, David Crist, is already in prison, convicted of trying to push his deaf 9-year-old daughter in front of an oncoming truck, and he faces trial in Maryland on charges that he had his brother killed in 1982. Prosecutor Thomas A. Marino said he would drop charges against Crist for the 1990 attempted killing of his daughter Miranda, who suffered only burned hands, because a trial would be traumatic for Miranda, as well as a waste of time and money.