Murdered Couple's Strange Wills

The investigation into the double murders of Mark Schwartz and his wife Christina Petrowski-Schwartz is continuing, but some nonbinding wills were made public and were proclaimed "oddball...bizarre" by the Daily News and "weird...bitter" by the Post. Schwartz made it clear he didn't want to give anything to his estranged brother--"Robert, you have a choice, you can come to my grave site to say hello out of love or piss on me for not giving you money"--and requested "my body be donned in my scuba diving gear and that my body be cast over the side of a vessel into the ocean where I may rest undisturbed." He also wanted to "curse" friends if they didn't follow his wishes, including saying, about business partner Robert Delvicario (who is being investigated), "to Bobby, never will your gun shoot when you need it.

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(index finger pointed at side of my head and making circles around my ear, while I whistle the Barnum and Baily circus theme)

Although they might be criminals, they seem colorful and earnest in their will.

They're creepy and they're kooky,
Mysterious and spooky,
They're altogether ooky,
The Mark Schwartz Family.

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