Separate Funeral Services For L.I. Lawyer, Family

A Long Island lawyer who killed his wife and two daughter before taking his own life will be cremated and not be a part of the family's funeral mass and viewings. Newsday reports there's a special service tomorrow for Betty Parente, 58, and daughter Catherine, 11, and Stephanie, 19; their wakes will be on Monday, followed by a funeral and burials on Tuesday. The funeral service for William Parente, 59, who bludgeoned then asphyxiated his family one by one at a Maryland hotel on Sunday and later cut himself so he bled to death, will be private. Parente apparently had a side business giving high-interest loans for real estate—but it's unclear what his financial dealings were, since checks to investors started to bounce this week. Stephanie Parente's suitemates at Loyola shared stories about their friend with Newsday, "Stephanie spoke to her mother every day. She adored Catherine, who visited on Loyola's sibling day... She took cell phone pictures of herself doing things like watching television and sent them to her."