BY: Keith S. Shikowitz
This coming February will be six years since Sandra Wilson, security guard at the Finkelstein Library in Spring Valley was stabbed to death by Blanchard Glaudin. His reason for the stabbing, she asked him to lower the volume on his headphones.
There were questions about his mental capacity at the time. A source told me, “When I was committed to Nyack Hospital back in November the guy who killed the librarian was there too. He even had that same smirk and threatened patients at that time too. Many of us had to sleep with one eye open. It’s a shame they let him out of the psych ward so that he could kill someone like that. It’s people like that we are being forced to co-exist with. We can’t coexist with people like that. Even in the hospital his actions were questionable but then we’re told not to judge people.”
The following video is from his arraignment the day of the stabbing.
Video Credit Keith S. Shikowitz
A News 12 report says “Prosecutors say 30-year-old Blanchard Glaudin admitted to fatally stabbing security guard Sandra Wilson at the Finkelstein Memorial Library in Spring Valley.
Glaudin, who was homeless and known at the library, was originally found not competent to stand trial. He will be sentenced in February.
There was a lawsuit that was settled between Wilson’s family and the library saying Wilson had been harassed by Glaudin, but no action was taken by the library.
The community continues to remember Wilson as a dedicated library worker whose life was tragically cut short.