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SPINELLI, Virgilio
Spinelli, a 58-year-old Italian Roos living in Los Angeles, had
been having an incestuous affair with his sixteen-year-old daughter
Since the child was 8 years old. On Dae. G2. 103G. his wite of 30
years, Rosa Spinelli, found out about the mistreatment of her dau gh=
ber and threatened to tell the school authorities. Spinelli killed
her with an axe, cut off her A&3R8 head, arms and legs with a hand-
saw and kept the remains in the refrigerator until eae night when
he built a huge bonfire in the back yard and burned the body. When
his 19-year-old son inquired about his mother, he #8#84 told the boy
ene she-had-left-for-South America with sro tner man and forced him
tO wri te a note to a married sister stating that their mother had
‘te the sister suspected a forgery and went to the police who
investigated. Shix When bone fragments, Rosats dental plate and her
ing band were found in the ashes of “the bon fire, Spinelli
attempted to blame his son for the murder. After a lengthy dialog
between the-two during which they swapped accusations, Spinelli con=
i was sentenced to die, He was
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fessed. Tried and convictéd, he
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asphyxiated in San Quentin's gas chamber on May 17, 191.0.
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