3 Clarkstown Police Officers Win Award for Peggy Nadell Murder Case

Detective Lt. Glenn Dietrich, Sgt. Earl Lorence and Sgt. Stephen Cole-Hatchard received the Rockland County American Legion Law and Order Award for their work in solving the Peggy Nadell murder case.

Diana Nadell pleaded guilty March 6 to the brutal slaying of her mother-in-law in a murder plot that spanned the country, as Diana Nadell lives in Florida and three co-conspirators were residents of Washington, D.C. and California.

Nadell came up from Florida and stabbed and bludgeoned, stabbed and strangled Peggy Nadell Jan. 25, 2014. After a multi-state, multi-agency investigation, she and her accomplices were arrested in May 2014.

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PHOTO: Clarkstown Police Chief Michael Sullivan, County Executive Ed Day, Detective Lt. Glenn Dietrich, Sergeant Earl Lorence, Sergeant Stephen Cole-Hatchard, and Supervisor Alex Gromack/contributed