PA. COP KILLER RICHARD POPLAWSKI GETS DEATH

AMERICA will take vengeance against a Pittsburgh killer who murdered three cops in 2009. Richard Poplawski, 24, was sentenced to die Tuesday for the murders of officers Paul Sciullo II, 36, Stephen Mayhle, 29, and Eric Kelly, 41, on April 4, 2009.
The tragic murders were triggered when Poplawski and his mother started arguing about his puppies peeing on the floor. Things got so intense, she called 911. It took the jury just 90 minutes to render it's verdict.  During the penalty phrase, the killer's attorney trotted out the usual chestnuts: dysfunctional, unloving home life, yada, yada, yada.
Granddad was a racist who hate the government.. No male role model. But lawyer William Brennan made some solid points.

Poplawski's great aunt Joanne Duffy testified: "I've never seen her kiss him or put her arms around and show any kind of affection for him."
The prosecution wasn't biting. Most of his grandfather's vile deeds occurred before the killer was even born. DA Mark Tranquilli posed some fairly pointed questions himself.
He said: "I know another guy who didn't know a father in his life -- (murdered cop) Eric Kelly. How did he turn out?" He added that the doting father of three also helped raise a sister 22 years younger than himself as well as his oldest daughter's child, who he often watched during the day after working an overnight shift. MORE ON THE CASE

EVIL ANGELA MARINUCCI GUILTY IN TORTURE MURDER

EVIL TEEN killer Angela Marinucci has been found guilty of murdering a love rival with special needs. It took the suburban Pittsburgh jury just four hours to convict the villainous vixen.
Just 18-years-old, court heard that Marinucci was one of the ringleaders in the torture slaying of Jennifer Daugherty in January 2010. The teen terror went down for first degree murder, second degree murder, third degree murder, two counts of conspiracy and one count of kidnapping. The convictions carry with them an automatic life sentenced.
Daugherty's family remain devastated since the horrific murder.


 Her sister Jo Burkholder said outside court.: "We will love and celebrate Jennifer’s memory for the rest of our lives, her body is gone but we carry her love with us wherever we go."
Those last hours of the mentally challenged 30-year-old were a nightmare.  She had been beaten for two days, stabbed in the chest and then dumped in a trash can.
 DA John Peck said: "Jennifer will always stick with me, the picture of her and how she was found and what was done to her, impossible to forget."
 Marinucci's attorney said he will appeal, Five other suspects have yet to go to trial.
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ANGELA MARINUCCI ON TRIAL IN PA. TORTURE MURDER

DEBATING TEAM

A JEALOUS TEEN and her boyfriend confessed to a friend they committed the grisly torture slaying of a disabled woman. Insecure Angela Marinucci, 18, (pictured bottom right) and Ricky 'I'm no Prize' Smyrnes (pictured top right) met Laurie Piper at a suburban Pittsburgh bus station on February 11, 2010--the same day Jennifer Daugherty's lifeless corpse was discovered. The gruesome twosome told Piper that Marinucci: "wanted to kill Jennifer because she did not want to share Ricky." Daugherty, 30, was found bound and stabbed in the throat and chest in a parking lot. Her body had been dumped trash bin.  Piper told court--Marinucci is on trial for first-degree murder in the sickening slaying--that the accused was the ringleader and she
viewed the dead woman as competition in the love department.
DA John Peck told court in his opening statement that Marinucci had convinced her roommates to attack Daughtery. They had all been friends of the dead woman. The other suspects will be tried separately.


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