http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/02/01/ki....ap/index.html
BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut (AP) -- An 87-year-old bride has married a 49-year-old man who police say killed two elderly relatives 30 years ago, pledging to wait for him until he finishes a new prison sentence for a probation violation.
Radmila Dobrijevickan, of Easton, Connecticut, married Frank Czumalowski on Tuesday in Bridgeport despite police allegations that the groom allegedly bludgeoned his grandmother and great-aunt to death and buried the bodies in their beloved rose garden.
But shortly after the marriage ceremony, Superior Court Judge Richard Comerford sentenced Czumalowski to 2 1/2 years in prison for violating his probation in connection with his conviction for sexually assaulting his 12-year-old stepdaughter.
She'll wait for him
The bride pledged she would wait for Czumalowski as he was taken away in handcuffs.
"Who are we to judge?" said Czumalowski's lawyer, Rob Serafinowicz.
"Throughout history there have been odd couples and things worked out well," he added. "In this case, all we can do is wish them the best and hopefully, with good behavior, Frank will be out in a year."
In a rambling diatribe that lasted nearly an hour, the new Mrs. Czumalowski defended her husband to the judge.
"He didn't want to kill a bug on the porch, I had to use my velvet slipper to kill the bug," she said. "He is a very unlucky person, I hope I will have a good life with him."
In 1977, Czumalowski, then 19, was found not guilty by reason of insanity of the murders of his grandmother and great-aunt.
According to police, in 1976 Czumalowski beat his 82-year-old grandmother, Louise Tomassetti, to death and stabbed and beat his 60-year-old aunt, Elvira Barbieri, to death.
The women were huddled over the stove in their Milford, Connecticut, home, preparing an Easter dinner for Czumalowski when the attack took place.
Rose garden burial
He loaded the bodies into a wheelbarrow and rolled them to the rear of the house and buried them in a shallow grave, beside their rose bushes, police said.
He was released from a state psychiatric hospital after about six years.
Czumalowski was arrested in 1994 for sexually assaulting his 12-year-old stepdaughter from another marriage in Fairfield, Connecticut. He was convicted of two counts of first-degree sexual assault.
He was released from prison in 2003 and placed on probation with the condition he undergo sex-offender treatment and stay away from children.
However, according to an arrest warrant affidavit, Czumalowski failed a lie detector test last March on whether he had been alone with a boy related to his landlady.
He also was kicked out of his sexual behavior program for making threats, and then in August he threatened his probation officer and told her that he would "revert back to his past criminal inclinations," according to the affidavit.
Got to be Crazy!!
