Showing posts with label Ronald Vinci. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ronald Vinci. Show all posts

Thursday, July 7, 2011

CATHERINE PILEGGI, STABBED, SHOT & BEAT MILLIONAIRE

CRAZY CATHERINE
TALK about a woman scorned.
Cops say millionaire Ronald Vinci, who battered body was found stabbed, shot and battered in his Fort Lauderdale, FL mansion was killed by his jilted lover Catherine Marie Pileggi.
Furious that he had tried to end their relationship she shot him in the head, slashed his throat and the beat him and then planned to drop his body in the ocean.
Detective Travis Mandell said: “This is a brutal, brutal murder. I can’t imagine someone else doing this to another human being."
According to the arrest affidavit, Pileggi told one of Vinci’s friends: “I messed him up bad.’’
Her family said the pair met through their shared love of flying but after 20 years together, Vinci, 70, who made his millions with a number of Florida car dealerships decided to move on.
So the 54-year-old went round to their recently purchased $2.9 million mansion and killed him with two of his own guns.  
Nearby neighbors said they heard a pop on June 27 and police found the body the next day.

Saturday, July 2, 2011

MILLIONAIRE RONALD VINCI'S BODY DEAD IN DUCT TAPE

MANSION
A MULTI-millionaire's dead body has been found wrapped in duct tape in the mansion he bought, just two weeks ago.
Cops are baffled by the bizarre discovery of Ronald Vinci's body at the 7000, square foot Fort Lauderdale house which was vacant for years until he paid almost $3million for just a couple of weeks ago.
Detective Kathy Collins said "At this time we don't really know what transpired. It is a suspicious death."
Neighbors told WFOR the mansion sat vacant for years, until two weeks ago when Vinci who made a fortune in Honda car dealerships and real estate in Southern California paid $2.9 million for the property.
His long-time lawyer Michael Vivoli told the station Vinci was a self-made man who moved to San Diego in the late 1960s with $1,500.
From that, he owned one of the first Honda dealerships in California.
He said: "He was a man of his word. He was a man of integrity. He was a guy that if he told you he was going to do something, he would do it."