No, I don’t know the marital or parental status of the GT reporter covering the case of the 75-year-old murderer from Glenville, but would she please for the love of God stop referring to him as a “grandfather”? The only possible relevance to the man being a grandfather is that he murdered his grandchildren’s’ mother. I don’t know if the reporter intends the term to evoke sympathy for the creep or just thinks it odd that someone so old would stab another to death, but forget it. A forty-year-old can be a grandfather, a 75-year-old can be a criminal – ask Bernie Madoff. Write the story and call it quits.
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Puhleeeeze, guy, even the headline says he’s from Pemberwick, not Glenville … cut us Glenville-ites a break, we pay extra to be farther away and up the hill from the Byram River.
If, rather than elicit (unwarranted) sympathy for the (alleged) murder she would have descried him as either a Republican or an SUV driver or a veteran. Of the most damning epithet of all, an SUV driving, Republican veteran.
Is this the person who was slightly miffed that his daughter-in-law was awarded some of his possessions in her divorce settlement?
Lucky your Nana didn’t have his temper.
I believe the reporter is using grandfather as a term of reverence. Reminiscing about how the old Sicilians assassinated people with style. Don’t you love how the article soft shoes the killing by saying the assailant was found with a knife and gun. Rather than citing what the Police report reveals…she was shot in the face to ensure a closed casket at the funeral. And then he cut his daughter in law ear to ear like a sow in a slaughter house. Now if that doesn’t hearken back to the old, romantic Sicilian hits…what does? Grandfather, Godfather…what’s the difference????