Prosector Joseph E. McGettigan III of Media Borough, who obtained convictions against chemical company heir John du Pont and Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, died Dec. 31, reports CBS News Philadelphia.
He was 76.
McGettigan served as lead prosecutor at Sandusky’s 2012 trial as senior deputy attorney general. Sandusky was convicted on 45 of 48 counts of child molestation.
He was an assistant district attorney in Delaware County in 1996 when he prosecuted du Pont, who was found guilty of third-degree murder but was mentally ill.
Du Pont had been charged in the death of David Schultz, an Olympic gold medalist freestyle wrestler. Schultz was living and training at a state-of-the-art training center that du Pont had built at his Foxcatcher Farm property in Newtown Square.
Du Pont died in a Pennsylvania prison in 2010 at the age of 72. Sandusky, 81, is serving a 30- to 60-year sentence in state prison.
McGettigan also worked as a prosecutor in Philadelphia, working on cases that often involved murder and child molestation.
He most recently served as a lawyer in a private practice, including work on behalf of crime victims.
Read more about the life of Joseph E. McGettigan at CBS News.
