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Slain millionaire Ronald Vinci wanted to end relationship with accused killer, police say
South Florida Sun-Sentinel ^ | July 6, 2011 | By Peter Franceschina, Juan Ortega and Danielle A. Alvarez

Posted on 07/06/2011 10:46:10 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

FORT LAUDERDALE— Police say wealthy retired businessman Ronald Vinci wanted to finally end his long-term relationship with his girlfriend.

During a "heated altercation" in the early morning hours of June 28 at Vinci's new multimillion-dollar home, police allege the girlfriend, Catherine Pileggi, unleashed a tremendous fury, fracturing his skull, stabbing him in the chest, slicing his throat and shooting him in the head.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: domesticviolence; pileggi; vinci
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To: ConservativeStatement
"I'm gonna drown you, shoot you, hang you, burn you, choke you, stab you, drag you fifty miles behind a horse through desert cactus and then I am REALLY gonna get mad!"

Love can really bring a depth to your life.

"Honey, all I said was the stew could use a little more spice."

21 posted on 07/07/2011 1:37:29 AM PDT by NoControllingLegalAuthority (What this country needs is an enema.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Perhaps a celebrity attorney from Morgan and Morgan - foe the people....

22 posted on 07/07/2011 1:46:33 AM PDT by Waverunner (I'd like to welcome our new overlords, say hello to my little friend)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Easy to say in retrospect but this rich old dead dude should have hired a security guard while he was breaking up w miss psycho-beetch here. He should have known she was capable of such violence. I mean she killed him in three different ways


23 posted on 07/07/2011 1:54:23 AM PDT by dennisw (NZT - "works better if you're already smart")
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To: ConservativeStatement

Next time I dream about how much fun it would be to date a wild, edgy girl, I will think of this.


24 posted on 07/07/2011 2:41:18 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: ConservativeStatement

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.


25 posted on 07/07/2011 2:53:30 AM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Right Brother
How do we know it wasn't just a coverup for an accidental drowning?

Looks more like suicide to me.

26 posted on 07/07/2011 3:17:24 AM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (I retain the right to be inconsistent, contradictory and even flat-out wrong!)
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To: dayglored
"Somebody please tell this woman that that 60's hippie "hairstyle" doesn't work on a 54 year old woman"

Oh yeah, right! After what she did to the guy?

I'm going to tell her that she looks "marvelous darling!!"

27 posted on 07/07/2011 3:19:34 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Obviously he had offered too little of a payoff for her liking.


28 posted on 07/07/2011 3:21:49 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: dayglored

Man, like she lived vicariously through her wealthy husband (and millionaire isn’t such a big deal as it used to be, because of inflation). She would have been smarter to swallow her rage for the moment, walk away, and sue for that old fashioned thing, alimony.


29 posted on 07/07/2011 3:24:32 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I’m sure she wants her trial done in Orlando...


30 posted on 07/07/2011 3:29:33 AM PDT by GOPJ (Black flash mobs: street level reflections of elite liberal hatred for middle class America..)
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To: Mind-numbed Robot

With all the publicity, they’ll have to go to Clearwater again for a jury. That way, the defense will be sure to get the “not guilty” verdict because there’s no video of this murder, and only “junk science”.

The defense will pin it on the handyman. They will villify and smear his character. They will make sure that they lower her seat during the trial so she appears very tiny, fragile, and not capable of such force. The Clearwater jury will be too overwhelmed by actual evidence, and too lazy to take notes. Then the defense can scream during closing that all the state had were “lies, lies, lies”, and point to the real killer, that handyman over there!


31 posted on 07/07/2011 4:17:19 AM PDT by Bluebird Singing
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To: BerryDingle

Note to self:

Avoid emotional clingy women, with adams apples.


32 posted on 07/07/2011 4:24:54 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (SOAK THE GLOBALISTS. Globalists destroy US jobs.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

“slicing” his throat — don’t they mean “slashing” his throat. Did she literally take the throat and slice it into the little pieces?


33 posted on 07/07/2011 4:42:02 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: truthkeeper

wowser........a woman killed like this? what is it with FL women?


34 posted on 07/07/2011 4:49:48 AM PDT by tioga
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To: WashingtonSource

LMAO.... good one.


35 posted on 07/07/2011 4:53:35 AM PDT by tioga
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To: ConservativeStatement

“Police say wealthy retired businessman Ronald Vinci wanted to finally end his long-term relationship with his girlfriend.”

...and then the fight started.


36 posted on 07/07/2011 5:09:52 AM PDT by Big_Harry (Ecc10:2 "A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left")
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To: tioga
"..unleashed a tremendous fury..." ?????WTF???and they have THREE writers credited on this story...no wonder newspapers are dying..and where were the editors..at a bar?
37 posted on 07/07/2011 5:11:22 AM PDT by ken5050 (Save the Earth..It's the only planet with chocolate!!!)
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To: ken5050

the dumbing down of America is off to a great start.....the MSM doesn’t want real reporters don’t forget....they are liberals to the core.


38 posted on 07/07/2011 5:15:21 AM PDT by tioga
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To: Bluebird Singing

By jove, I think you have solved it. Maybe they could bring in references to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping which, years later, lead to a handy man/painter.

That old saw about, “There is no fury like a woman scorned.” is just that, and old saw. No truth to it at all, as long as we ignore the many ex-wives we have had and known.


39 posted on 07/07/2011 5:22:53 AM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (I retain the right to be inconsistent, contradictory and even flat-out wrong!)
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To: WashingtonSource
“slicing” his throat — don’t they mean “slashing” his throat. Did she literally take the throat and slice it into the little pieces?

They found a bloody Vegematic at the scene.

40 posted on 07/07/2011 6:35:37 AM PDT by Tex-Con-Man
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