New Orleans radio/TV sportscaster booked with 2nd-degree murder of ex-wife

[occasionally]

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tpupdates/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tpupdates/archives/2006_09_07.html#180680

Vince Marinello has been in sports broadcasting in New Orleans for quite a few years, most recently on WWL Radio, the 50,000-watt station there. From what I understand, this has bumped post-Katrina off the top of page 1 for the last few days, and now this twist.

 

[SF_Express]

Wasn't this guy a "story" in the biz a few years back, got into something with somebody, or was some kind of homer, or ...

I have to say I don't have a clue, but it seems to me his name has been out there in a sports media sense sometime in the past.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Investigators executing a search warrant of Marinello?s residence and FEMA trailer Wednesday night found a bevy of evidence connecting Marinello to the killing, including a list of things to do after the crime, Lee said. The list included throwing the murder weapon into a waterway and painting the bike, Lee said.

Let's see -- list of things to do after murdering my wife.

* Throw murder weapon into Gulf of Mexico -- check
* Paint my bike red to match the blood stains -- check
* Rip up and burn note of things to do after murdering my wife -- ******* IT!!!

 

[Riddick]

But isn't this the second media person in the area in as many months charged with some sort of crime?

 

[hungryhungryhippo]

But isn't this the second media person in the area in as many months charged with some sort of crime?

I think a Times-Picayune photog attempted a "suicide by cop" a few months ago.

 

[funky_mountain]

But isn't this the second media person in the area in as many months charged with some sort of crime?

i don't know if another media person was charged with murder, but a times-picayune photographer tried 'suicide by cop' in august. i don't know if that's what you are talking about. but there are plenty of interesting mental health stories out there about people affected by the hurricane.

 

[Double J]

If he went to the trouble of donning a fake moustache, checked to make sure he had a properly working firearm, bought a certain type of bullets and also had a to-do list, how in the hell does that not qualify as premeditated/first-degree murder?

 

[Riddick]

i was thinking of the LSU writer who got busted for something.

 

[BigRed]

i was thinking of the LSU writer who got busted for something.

I think this is the guy you're talking about, William Kalec....
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/eastjefferson/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1155196908327410.xml&coll=1
Looks like dude is pretty much fired. Hasn't written since his arrest, and they've had Ted Lewis help out Jim Kleinpeter on the beat.

 

[Batman]

It seems like they have a lot of other evidence against this guy, but the alibi may check out. That game in Jackson was not very well-run -- there were two gates for 60,000 people -- and lots of fans either got into the stadium after it started or gave up after waiting in the rain for two hours. Traffic was also a nightmare, so getting there after the kickoff if he was driving up from New Orleans (about a 2 1/2 to 3 hour drive) doesn't mean much. It was quite the story in these parts for a couple weeks.

That said, it doesn't sound like this guy was a rocket scientist. Did he get home, take off his fake mustache and killin' clothes, wash up and go, "Hmmm....there was something else I was supposed to do. What was it? Eh, I'm sure I'll remember later."?
I mean, how in the hell do you make a murder checklist and forget to throw the thing away? And did he try to hide it among his other chores on the list?
Step 1: Buy fake mustache
Step 2: Pick up dry cleaning
Step 3: Call wife to check in
Step 4: Call witness, make sure gun works
Step 5: Get gas
Step 6: Ambush wife at work, shoot her in head
Step 7: Get a pizza for dinner

 

[ThomsonONE]

Didn't he ever watch the "Billionaire Boys Club" mini series? That's how they got Joe Hunt (played by master thespian Judd Nelson).

 

[spup1122]

There was a radio personality in Mid-Missouri arrested for suspicion of poisening his wife to death when they lived in Boston. He had been trying to get her life insurance money, and then they arrested him for second degree murder (I think).

 

[occasionally]

It seems like they have a lot of other evidence against this guy, but the alibi may check out. That game in Jackson was not very well-run -- there were two gates for 60,000 people -- and lots of fans either got into the stadium after it started or gave up after waiting in the rain for two hours. Traffic was also a nightmare, so getting there after the kickoff if he was driving up from New Orleans (about a 2 1/2 to 3 hour drive) doesn't mean much. It was quite the story in these parts for a couple weeks.

Wrong day. The murder happened on the 31st. The game in Jackson was on the 26th.

And SF_E, you might be thinking of Buddy Diliberto, the guy who got suspended when he went with a radio DJ report three days before the Super Bowl in N.O. that Jim McMahon had called all the women in N.O. "sluts." I believe Buddy died shortly before Katrina.

 

[Jesus_Muscatel]

Buddy died in early '05. January I believe.

 

[Ace]

Sounds like the perfect murder. Astounded he was caught. I bet if he used the "hit-her-with-the-frozen-butt-roast-and-eat-the-evidence" trick, he would have gotten away scot free.

 

[Double J]

Is that like in "Pink Flamingos" where the chicken was raped, killed and eaten? No body, no crime.