A young woman and her married lover kill her family
A young woman and her married lover kill her family On this day in 1976, Patricia Columbo and Frank DeLuca are arrested for killing Colombo’s parents and brother. The two killed Columbo’s family to receive the family inheritance, but Patricia was unaware that her parents wrote her off the inheritance years earlier. As of result, both were sentenced 200 to 300 years. Patricia Columbo and Frank DeLuca are arrested for the brutal slaying of Columbo’s parents and brother in Elk Grove, Illinois. Twenty-year-old Columbo had left her family home two years earlier to live with DeLuca, a 36-year-old married man. The pair later killed Frank, Mary and Michael Columbo in order to receive the family inheritance, unaware that the Columbos had written Patricia out of their wills years earlier. As a 16-year-old, Columbo worked in a suburban coffee shop where she met pharmacist Frank DeLuca, who managed the pharmacy next door. He soon hired her to work in his store and the two began an unusual sexual r...