Richard Delage

Richard Tobias Delage (born August 13, 1944) is an American murderer and suspected serial killer. Convicted of the murders of two university students committed in 1960 and 1969, respectively, he remains a suspect in a similar double murder in Pennsylvania for which he has never been charged. He is currently incarcerated in a prison in New York for the murder charge in that state.

Early life Richard Tobias Delage was born on August 13, 1944, in the Cos Cob neighborhood of Greenwich, Connecticut, the eighth of nine children (6 boys, 3 girls) born to radio-television store owner Georges Delage and his wife, Mabel founded in 1921. At six months of age, Delage was struck by scarlet fever, but survived without any visible abnormalities.

Described as a bright and studious child who was greatly interested in astronomy and oceanography, Delage was even promoted to vice president of the Greenwich High School's Thespian Society due to his academic achievements. There were no reports of any sort of neglect or abuse in the Delage family household, nor any publicly known behavioral issues in Richard prior to his first arrest. By the time they arrived and searched the area, however, the man had disappeared. Sgritta's body was found not long afterwards, having been shot four times in the head with a .32 S&W pocket revolver inside her own car. Strangely, nothing had been stolen from her, indicating that robbery was not a motive for the killing. Initially brushing it off as the possibility that she had gone to visit friends over the weekend, Gorenstein became concerned when a radio report on Sunday claimed that the body of an unidentified young woman had been discovered in Bolton. They also believed that she might have met her killer on the campus' restaurant, and due to this, they requested for assistance from the public in identifying anybody who was seen with Weatherley on that date.

While the police were gathering clues and witness testimony, Dr. James Brussel, a renowned psychiatrist involved with profiling offenders such as George Metesky and Albert DeSalvo, devised a psychiatric profile of the killer. In his profile, Brussel suggested that the offender was a white male under 30 years of age; of average build and height; of normal intelligence and good education; likely shy around women and easily panicked; possibly acquainted with the victim and suffers from some kind of perversion that enables him to kill. However, aside from the claim that shots apparently been fired in nearby Mansfield on the same afternoon as Weatherley's death, no usable new information surfaced in her killing.

Arrest, trial and imprisonment On October 3, 1975, Delage was arrested for the kidnapping of a hitchhiker in Mansfield and thereafter quickly interned at the Norwich State Hospital. While receiving treatment, he contacted Dr. Hans Langhammer, a psychiatrist who worked in the hospital, claiming that he had "done something wrong". He was soon charged with her murder and extradited to face murder charges in New York. Initially, Delage's attorney attempted to convince the court to try his client as a juvenile – as he was 15 years old when he had killed Sgritta – but this motion was rejected, meaning that Delage could potentially face with the death penalty. Shortly afterwards, he agreed to plead guilty in exchange for a 20-years-to-life term. To avoid standing trial in Connecticut, Delage pleaded to the lesser charge of manslaughter and was sentenced to 14-to-20 years imprisonment for killing Weatherley.

As of April 2025, Delage is incarcerated at the Franklin Correctional Facility in Malone, New York, where he continues to serve his life term for Sgritta's murder. He has never been charged with the murders of Eberlin and Lenihan, both of which remain unsolved.