Moments after being released, ICE took him.
The 64-year-old had spent nearly his entire adult life behind bars for a murder he did not commit.
Acting on a decades-old deportation order, they detained him and transferred him to the Moshannon Valley Processing Center, an ICE detention facility in central Pennsylvania.
Our family continues to wait — and long for the day we can finally be together with him again.”.
Vedam’s legal odyssey began in 1982, when he was arrested for the 1980 murder of his friend, 19-year-old Thomas Kinser, in Centre County.
He was initially arrested in 1982 and convicted the following year, being finally sentenced to life without parole.
In a statement sent to the Herald, ICE said Philadelphia officers took Vedam into custody immediately after his release because his criminal past. »