Trexler leaving BJ for Channel 3

Beacon Journal reporter Phil Trexler will join WKYC TV-3 as investigative producer beginning May 4 after working in Ol' Blue Walls since 1998.

Phil Trexler

Writes Phil:

“I'll miss my Beacon family for sure. Change is good.”

Trexler has been at the BJ for two decades and has won Press Club awards for his work.

Trexler is no stranger to television. He discussed the Painesville murder case on CNN’s “Nancy Grace Show.” Kevin Knoefel, 43, was convicted of guilty having sex with his foster daughter, Sabina Zunich, and convincing her to kill his wife, Lisa Knoefel, for nearly $785,000 in insurance money while Knoefel was elsewhere.

Phil also keeps busy writing books about baseball, such as “Ballparks, Yesterday & Today” and “Cleveland Indians, Yesterday and Today.” I think there’s a pattern to the titles of Phil’s tomes.

In February the Ohio Supreme Court voted 4-3 to require Trexler to explain why he shouldn't be forced to testify in an Akron Bar Association disciplinary hearing against Akron attorney Larry Shenise.