PULASKI TWP. MURDERS Ex-death row resident Kimbell hospitalized with head injury

Police say the beating was over money or property.
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- Former death row inmate Thomas Kimbell was seriously injured after being beaten in his south side home.
Police said a neighbor found Kimbell bleeding from the head and going in an out of consciousness around 3 a.m. Saturday. When police arrived, Kimbell was incoherent.
Kimbell, 42, was flown by medical helicopter to St. Elizabeth Health Center. He was discharged Monday.
Police Chief Tom Sansone said the beating likely had nothing to do with Kimbell's time on death row.
"We believe he had an argument with someone over property. It may be someone felt he owed them money," Sansone said.
Police said they had an earlier report that Kimbell had been mowing his grass around 8 p.m. Friday and someone took the lawnmower from him.
Authorities say there appeared to be a struggle inside his house and a large amount of blood was found on a stereo that may have been used to hit him on the head.
Who was slain
Kimbell was freed in 2002 from death row after being acquitted on murder charges during a second trial in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court.
He had been accused in the stabbing deaths of Bonnie Lou Dryfuse, 34, her daughters, Jacqueline, 7, and Heather, 4, and a niece, Stephanie Herko, 5, in Pulaski Township.
He spent four years on death row before being granted a new trial by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
No one else has been charged, and the case remains unsolved.
Last week, Kimbell's attorneys filed notice in common pleas court that he intends to sue the Pennsylvania State Police and the state attorney general's office over the murder charges.