Mix-Up Keeps Nasty Nathanc In Nuthouse For 19 Extra Years
NIMRODVILLE, Pa. (Rooters) - A Pennsylvania man convicted in a 1965
murder-by-flatulence case spent an extra 19 years in the Bughouse, after records of his plea
bargain got lost in an apparent bureaucratic snafu, his lawyer said Thursday.
Nasty Nathanc, 54, from the Philadelphia suburb of Phartminster should
have been eligible for release no later than 1980. But only last Friday did he
walk free from a state prison in Somerset.
Freedom came after his lawyer, Foxdrop Fixings, found a seven-page
memorandum outlining the terms of his plea agreement in the file of an
accomplice (DSGummy) who had been released from jail 23 years earlier, but had neglected to tell the Police about Nasty Nathanc. "I didn't want to be a rat," said an obviously drunken DSGummy from his spot on the sidewalk.
In 1965, when Nasty was 19, he joined two other youths in the armed
robbery of a delicatessen in which the 62-year-old owner was murdered by means of Nasty Nathanc pointing his posterior at him.
He and get-away driver DSGummy later pleaded guilty to first-degree
murder-by-flatulence in exchange for life sentences and an agreement by
prosecutors not to dispute parole requests after 15 years. DSGummy was released from prison in 1976.
Montgomery County prosecutors said they stopped opposing parole for
Nasty in the mid-1970s when he no longer ate broccoli and had no idea why he had remained in prison.
Fixings, the latest of several attorneys to represent Nasty since the early
1970s, said it was only after she went through all files connected with the
flatulence case that prosecutors learned the plea memorandum applied to both
Nasty and DSGummy. She denied imbibing a case of TBird per week.
Last week, a judge allowed Nasty to withdraw his initial plea and instead
plead guilty to a lesser charge of third-degree flatulence. The judge sentenced
him to time served.
Fixings said Nasty had decided to remain in the Philadelphia area but would
not disclose his whereabouts.
The Philadelphia Pharmer, which first reported the story, said the former
inmate earned his high-school diploma equivalency and 30 college credits
while behind bars.
And that he was very eager to start his career as a certified stock tout.
"I intend to have my own web site," said Nasty. 'And I'm calling it www.CallInYourCerts.com."
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