A Peabody man was discovered responsible of taking pictures his spouse to demise with a shotgun a month after she had filed for divorce in 2018.
Ersilia Cataldo Matarazzo, 50, had filed for divorce from her husband Emilio Matarazzo on Nov. 15, 2018, and moved out of the couple’s Peabody residence to dwell along with her dad and mom on Central Avenue in Everett.
On Dec. 19, 2018, Emilio Matarazzo — angered by the divorce and fearful that she was having an affair, in keeping with prosecutors — shot her to demise as she sat in her automobile, prepared to go away for work as a secretary at St. Anthony’s Parish in Everett.
On Tuesday, a Middlesex Superior Court jury discovered Emilio Matarazzo responsible of first-degree homicide. The sentencing is scheduled for Thursday.
“Intimate partner violence continues to be a significant public safety and public health issue. Ms. Cataldo Matarazzo had been subjected to a long history of abuse that escalated when she tried to leave the defendant,” Middlesex DA Marian Ryan stated in an announcement following the decision.
“We know that when a victim decides to leave a relationship that time can be incredibly dangerous and in this case Ersilia Cataldo Matarazzo was senselessly murdered when she left the defendant and filed for divorce.”
Prosecutors stated that Ersilia Matarazzo quickly started opening as much as household and buddies in regards to the strangling, hitting, scratching and different abuse she had suffered by the hands of her husband over their 30-year marriage — and that Emilio Matarazzo “just snapped” when he received phrase of the accusations.
On Dec. 18, 2018, Ersilia Matarazzo and her father had placed on a Christmas gathering at St. Anthony’s, the Oakes Street church the place she labored since 2005 and was a “smiling fixture,” in keeping with a up to date assertion from the Rev. Jairo Alfonso.
It was not time, nevertheless, as Emilio Matarazzo confirmed up and demanded to see his spouse, in keeping with prosecutors. Prosecutor Carrie Spiros stated that “She expressed a significant amount of fear. … She hid herself in the church.”
Church leaders requested him to go away.
The subsequent morning, Emilio Matarazzo traveled to Everett with a 12-gauge shotgun and arrived at his estranged spouse’s dad and mom’ residence earlier than she had left for work. Witnesses instructed police that someday between 8:30 a.m. and eight:40 a.m. — when police responded to the pictures fired name — they might hear Ersilia Matarazzo’s piercing screams.
Her mom would rush out to attempt to give any assist she might to her daughter, however nothing might be completed. Police would discover Ersilia Matarazzo sitting in her automobile, apparent gunshot wounds to her torso and face. Six shell casings have been scattered across the automobile.
The defendant turned himself in, telling police he was “not good,” prosecutors stated. But he nonetheless pleaded not responsible to the cost at his arraignment on Dec. 20.
Ersilia Matarazzo had two sons along with her killer, Carmine and Giuseppe. She was additionally a volunteer member on the Everett Board of Assessors, former faculty committee member and board of registrars and second cousin to the town’s then-mayor, Carlo DeMaria, in keeping with earlier Herald reporting.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”