{"id":215777,"date":"2026-06-10T18:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215777\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T18:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:38:10","slug":"bethlehem-township-man-admits-to-murdering-wife-faces-life-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215777\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem Township man admits to murdering wife, faces life sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bethlehem Township man admitted Wednesday to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2025\/03\/11\/bethlehem-township-homicide\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">killing his wife last year in their home.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>James Frank, 58, pleaded guilty to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2025\/03\/12\/my-wife-is-dead-in-the-bathtub-bethlehem-township-man-charged-in-killing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first-degree murder in the March 11, 2025, killing of his wife, Deborah Glaser, 55,<\/a> according to Northampton County District Attorney Stephen Baratta.<\/p>\n<p>Frank cut her throat with a steak knife, then used a knife and hammer to puncture her throat, township police have said.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to their home in the 2100 block of Third Street after a family member reported they were concerned about the well-being of those in the house.<\/p>\n<p>After police arrived and no one answered the door, they used a ladder and tried to get into the home through a second-story window. Frank met officers at the window, and they told him to meet them at the front door, police said.<\/p>\n<p>When police spoke to him at the door, he said, \u201cMy wife is dead in the bathtub,\u201d according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p>Glaser was found in the tub with multiple wounds to her chest.<\/p>\n<p>Frank admitted he killed her, and authorities found knives, razor blades, box cutters, a hammer and mallet in the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>Frank faces a sentence of life in prison. He is scheduled to be sentenced June 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bethlehem Township man admitted Wednesday to killing his wife last year in their home. James Frank, 58,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,1391,46,182,139,434,28,432],"class_list":["post-215777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-area","tag-courts","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}