Gabe Truitt

To Save Victim’s Family From Ordeal Of A Trial, Truitt Offered Plea Deal Even So, Arson Suspect Faces 25 To Life COOPERSTOWN – In county court today, District Attorney John L. Muehl offered Gabriel Truitt, 33, a chance to plead guilty to one of two counts – second-degree murder – in the Dec. 29 arson death in Oneonta of former city firefighter John Heller. “I offered that on the record,” said Muehl, “to try to save the (Heller) family from…