Hump Day Horror

 

Patricia Columbo was just 16 years old when she met 36 year old Frank DeLuca.  He managed a pharmacy and she worked at the coffee shop next door.  She went to work for him instead, and they began a sexual relationship.

She eventually moved into the home he shared with his wife and 5 kids, before he divorced and they moved into an apartment together.  Patricia's father beat Frank pretty badly over that.

Two years later, the pair broke into the Columbo home and murdered her parents as well as her brother, brutally.  She was not initially a suspect, and had hoped to receive inheritance, only to find she had been written out of the will.

The police were eventually led to the couple and after they were arrested (05/15/1976), DeLuca's employees revealed they saw him washing and burning bloodstained clothes.  He had apparently threatened them to stay quiet, and even tried to have them killed while he was in jail, but another inmate thwarted the plan.

The two were sentenced to 200-300 years in prison.

Frank died just last year, and Patricia has been repeatedly denied parole.

Seems they're also referred to as The Walgreens Killers.