Imprisonment of Subramanyam Vedam

in Harris Township, Pennsylvania where Kinser's body was found|left Subramanyam Vedam was born in 1961 in India when his family was visiting to take care of his dying great-grandfather. Vedam grew up in State College, Pennsylvania and attended the Delta Program alongside Thomas Kinser, whom he befriended, and later moved in with, at the Lion's Gate apartment complex. In September 1981, two teenagers discovered the decomposed body of Thomas Kinser in a sinkhole around the Bear Meadows in the Rothrock State Forest. Kinser had been reported missing on December 18, 1980. Vedam told police that he had last seen Kinser on December 14, when they traveled to Lewistown. Almost five months later, Daniel O’Connell told police that he sold Vedam a firearm, and that Vedam had tested the weapon in State College. Police sent the information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Vedam was charged with first-degree murder on June 28, 1982. In 1984, as part of a plea agreement, Vedam was sentenced to two-and-a-half to five years for a drug offense. ==Imprisonment==

In 2023, a report from the FBI which would surface suggesting that the bullet wound was too small to have been fired from a .25-caliber gun. In August 2025, Judge Jonathan Grine ruled that Vedam's constitutional right of due process was violated. District Attorney Bernie Cantorna went on to dismiss the murder charge. ==ICE detention==

Immediately after being released from prison, Vedam was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Despite being a legal permanent resident the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement is seeking to deport him over his drug dealing conviction. Vedam was held at an ICE short-term holding center in Alexandria, Louisiana, ==See also==