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."

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By Jen Chung in News on April 24, 2009 3:24 PM

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schizofriendly

What suffering it must be to cheat and lie in order to look like you've got it all. Just more and more pressure. A big ruse. What a mess.

jterry121

They should put the bodies of these useless murder-suicide cowards on public display like a pinata and charge to let people smash open their heads with an aluminum bat. That'll fix the deficit. I hope Satan is torturing this guy in hell along with that Scumbag who shot up the Immigrant center.

Dirk

That asshole deserves to have his body eaten by wild dogs.

ugh

That would be animal abuse.

JacqueMehoff

a guy who interviewed me for a prudential preferred position looked like him. all he talked about was how much money I could make. till he found out I didn't have any friends, therefore, no one to sell insurance policies to.

this guy ran his own ponzi scheme which is what it was.