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William Parente of Garden City, Long Island killed his wife, Betty and two daughters, Stephanie, 19, and Catherine, 11, and then committed suicide at a hotel in Towson, Md., police said. According to the police, no motive has been established in the incident. The four were found dead inside a 10th-floor room at a Sheraton Hotel on Monday and none were shot or stabbed. Baltimore County Police have confirmed they received "the cause and manner of death" rulings from the office of the chief medical examiner in the investigation.
William Parente of Garden City, Long Island killed his wife, Betty and two daughters, Stephanie, 19, and Catherine, 11, and then committed suicide at a hotel in Towson, Md., police said. According to the police, no motive has been established in the incident. The four were found dead inside a 10th-floor room at a Sheraton Hotel on Monday and none were shot or stabbed. Baltimore County Police have confirmed they received "the cause and manner of death" rulings from the office of the chief medical examiner in the investigation.
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Cops: Husband Killed Wife, 2 Daughters in Baltimore Hotel
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (WPIX) -- Authorities are trying to figure out what caused a Long Island man to snap after he brutally killed his wife and two daughters, before committing suicide at a Baltimore hotel Sunday. William Parente, 59, a real estate attorney...Tags: Garden City (Nassau, New York), Colleges and Universities, WPIX, Lawyers, FBI
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Long Island Family Found Dead in Baltimore Hotel Room
The Garden City family of four found dead in a Maryland hotel room in what police call a murder-suicide was described by stunned friends Tuesday as "wonderful, beautiful" people. William Parente, 59, his wife, Betty Parente, 58, and their daughters,...Tags: Towson, Maryland, Colleges and Universities, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Suicide
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LI Man in Murder-Suicide May Have Run $20 Mil Ponzi Scheme
GARDEN CITY, N.Y (WPIX) -- A real estate attorney from Garden City who brutally killed his wife and two daughters, before committing suicide at a Baltimore hotel on Sunday, may have been running a $20 million Ponzi scheme, according to authorities....Tags: Garden City (Nassau, New York), Corporate Crime, WPIX, Suicide, Lawyers
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Tax Attorney Slaughters Family in Upscale Hotel
TOWSON, Md. - A tax attorney's investment dealings are being investigated by the FBI after he beat and asphyxiated his wife and daughters in a Maryland hotel room before killing himself, authorities said Wednesday. The bodies were discovered Monday in...Tags: Garden City (Nassau, New York), Maryland, Asphyxiation, New York, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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Murder-suicide inquiry turns to father's financial dealings
Baltimore Sun reportersOne hint that something might have been amiss in William Parente's professional life came from a nondescript law office in a shopping center in Queens. Attorney Bruce Montague, uneasy about an investment he had made through Parente, asked for his money...Tags: Towson, New York, Suicide, Lawyers, Judges
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Police describe methodical killings in hotel
The phone in the Parentes' 10th-floor hotel room rang just before midnight. By then, a mother and two daughters staying there had been beaten and asphyxiated by the man who answered the phone. Not long after taking that call - from a college roommate of...Tags: Towson, Garden City (Nassau, New York), Colleges and Universities, Asphyxiation, New York
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Parente bought knife at Towson mall
Some time after checking into the Sheraton hotel in Towson last week, William M. Parente went across the street to the Towson Town Center and bought the knife he used to kill himself. Baltimore County detectives found a receipt from a mall store for...Tags: Towson, New York, Lawyers, FBI, Hotels and Accommodations
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Long Island neighbors bewildered at death of family
A wreath of bright flowers decorates the front door of the tidy white-brick house on First Street, across from the fairways of the Cherry Valley Club. Occasionally, someone comes by to drop off a bouquet, a note of condolence attached. The inhabitants...Tags: Santa Claus (fictional character), Garden City (Nassau, New York), Christmas, Newspapers, Mother's Day
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N.Y. family died on visit to Loyola student
Baltimore Sun reportersStephanie Parente wasn't the kind of student who would blow off a college chemistry exam. The 19-year-old Loyola sophomore and speech pathology major was far too studious for that, her friends said. After she didn't show up for class Monday, college...Tags: Maryland, Colleges and Universities, Cell Phones, New York, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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Fellow Loyola students mourn friend's death
In the prayer garden next to the Loyola College Chapel, a dozen students who were friends with Stephanie Parente gathered Tuesday to cry, hug and lean on each other as they remembered their classmate who was found dead with her family in a Towson hotel...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Long Island, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Betty Parente
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