BERKSHIRE EAGLE – November 4, 2014

PITTSFIELD >> A witness who testified against Adam Lee Hall in his triple murder trial have been cleared of charges in a 2010 fake armed robbery in which he were implicated.

The Berkshire District Attorney's Office dropped the charges against Scott Langdon, who participated in the scheme cooked up by Hall to discredit a man who later would become one of his murder victims.

In August 2010, Hall, Langdon and two others lured David Glasser, 44, of Pittsfield, to rural Wells, N.Y., and planted items on him in order to make it appear he had been involved in an attempted kidnapping and armed robbery. Hall was hoping to discredit Glasser as a witness in an earlier case in which he beat Glasser with a baseball bat and forced him to sign over his beloved truck.

The scheme was part of Hall's escalating obsession with David Glasser, an obsession that would lead to the murder of the man and two friends a year later at the hands of Hall, David Chalue and Caius Veiovis, according to prosecutors. Hall and the other two men were later convicted for the crimes and are serving three consecutive life sentences without the chance of parole.

Langdon, 48, was a witness for the prosecution in all three triple murder trials. He testified he had been roped into helping with the 2010 plan. Langdon, of Pittsfield, stated he had convinced Glasser to give him a ride to Wells, N.Y., and that while there a female handed him a bag that had a gun along with her wallet, which he then planted in Glasser's truck.The female then called police in New York and told them a man had attempted to kidnap her and fired a gun at her when she ran from him. She gave a description of Glasser's truck and his license plate number. Glasser was later arrested by Pittsfield Police after a traffic stop when they found the gun and the female’s wallet. Investigators later determined Glasser had been set up and that Hall was behind the scheme.

A year later, Glasser, his roommate Edward Frampton and their friend and neighbor Robert Chadwell disappeared from Glasser's Linden Street home. Their dismembered remains were found about two weeks later buried in a trench in Becket.

Langdon had been charged as a co-venturer in the crimes and were facing serious felonies, including kidnapping, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, witness intimidation and conspiracy.

The DA's office on Friday entered Nolle Prosequis on all charges against the defendant. This legal Latin term means that the prosecutors will not be pursuing the charges and Langdon will not have convictions for these charges on his record.

Berkshire District Attorney David F. Capeless told The Eagle that considering the magnitude of the triple murder case and the level of cooperation by the four this was "the appropriate way to handle" the charges.

"These people cooperated. They made themselves available," he said. "They testified and did so truthfully and didn't hold back." The DA said his office had never made any promises for their cooperation and made the decision only after the triple murder trials ended.

"Scott gave authorities a full confession as soon as he was arrested and continued his cooperation through the successful prosecution of all three triple homicide cases," said Langdon's attorney, Marc C. Vincelette Sr. "He had never been charged with a crime prior to this incident so he will now return to being a law abiding member of society. But he does so with a heavy heart for the victims and their families, friends and loved ones."