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[November 04, 2008]

Leah Walsh worked as Howard Stern radio intern in 1999

Nov 04, 2008 (Newsday - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --
In a radio interview with Howard Stern nearly a decade ago, a 20-year-old intern named Leah Hirschel spoke candidly about her hard luck with men.

Those haunting words echoed over the airwaves again yesterday when the star disc jockey replayed an excerpt from his conversation with the woman now known as Leah Walsh, the slain schoolteacher whose husband is charged with murder in her death.

William Walsh Jr., 29, of Bethpage, remained in Nassau County jail under psychiatric evaluation yesterday as a Nassau judge adjourned a hearing in the case to determine whether Walsh qualifies for a publicly funded lawyer.

Walsh was arrested and charged with second-degree murder after Leah's body was discovered Wednesday in a wooded area in North Hills. Nassau police said Walsh strangled his 29-year-old wife Oct. 26 after the couple argued about his infidelity.

Authorities said he dumped her body down an embankment off a service road of the Long Island Expressway, then faked her disappearance and made emotional pleas for her return.

On his satellite radio program, Stern said he'd interviewed Leah in 1999 when she was a contestant in an intern beauty pageant. "It's really weird. ... She said, 'I never have luck with men.'"

In the recording, apparently made before she met her husband, Leah told Stern that men had lied to her, saying, "They all gave me the lines." Stern responded: "It doesn't get any better."

Walsh, who is being held without bail, faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted.
After the hearing yesterday, defense attorney Karl C. Seman of Garden City said police have no evidence that his client committed murder. "Not a single strand of evidence has been produced that he's guilty," Seman said.

Police have said Walsh confessed. Seman has said Walsh's confession was coerced -- an assertion police have denied.

Seman also said his client, a stockbroker trainee, has no assets. Walsh will be screened to see if he can afford private counsel, and a hearing will take place tomorrow.

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