The recording is of Earnet Wholaver talking to a DEA agent that he believes is a hitman. Dauphin County District Attorney Fran Chardo, who helped oversee the sting, made sure the agent who posed as a hitman on the phone had a West Virginia accent since the jailhouse informant who told officials of Wholaver's murder-for-hire plot hailed from the state. It made sense his hitman contact would, too.

Chardo told PennLive the recordings played at trial, still haunt him because they reveal just how cold-blooded a killer Wholaver was. It’s all there, Chardo said, in the sound of Wholaver’s relieved sigh after arranging the hit. It’s the sound a normal person makes after receiving the best of news.  Wholaver released it after setting up yet another murder -- that of his older daughter's ex-boyfriend and father of her baby daughter. Wholaver sought to set him up as the killer, complete with a staged suicide and note confessing to the murders.

Earnet Wholaver talks to a DEA agent

Ellen Greenberg Case - The 911 Call

A wiretap conversation betweem Mark Warfel and Tracey Kroh’s sister in which he talks about what he says happened to Tracey Kroh.

Warfel wiretap conversation

An excerpt from dispatch calls made during an incident June 9, 2024, where a 22-year-old man was killed by police while they say he fired at officers in downtown Harrisburg.

Dispatch calls from fatal Harrisburg police shooting

Gov. Josh Shapiro has used his voice in TV ads to campaign for three sitting Democrats on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court who are up for retention on Tuesday.

Now, on Election Day eve, Democrats in key counties, including Dauphin, York and Lancaster, are hearing Shapiro’s voice on their phones.

Gov. Josh Shapiro Robocall

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