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Did Desperation Lead to Murder - Then Suicide?

By David Lohr

William Parente, 59, his wife, Betty, 58, and 11-year-old daughter Catherine packed a few things and drove approximately 215 miles from their home in Garden City, New York to Towson, Maryland, located a few miles due north of Baltimore.  They had presumably made the trip, as they had done a number of times in the past, to visit their oldest daughter, Stephanie, 19, a student at Loyola College.  Stephanie, a sophomore at the Jesuit Catholic university, was majoring in speech pathology but had future plans to become a dentist.  She was studying for exams on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 when her family checked into the Towson Sheraton Hotel.  They would be staying until Monday, April 20, 2009. The plan, if it could be called that since they had shown up virtually unannounced, called for a final visit on the Sunday before their checkout date...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on May 26, 2009 (boomark / email).