Marina Mary Calabro (1917 – 2001)
She was a sprightly as well as kind and very generous woman who had made a career as a hairdresser. Never been married or having had any kids, she lived by herself in her pretty large house, and she had money in the bank, so to speak.
When her 19 years old great-grandnephew, Anthony, had family problems, she was happy to let him live with her, and she treated him as the grandson she never had. Not only was she extremely generous and kind to him, but she also let some of his friends, Jim Morel, Jason Weir, and Thomas (Tom)
Lally, visit and stay with him. She may not have understood or liked the music of these young men who had formed a band, "The Electronic Kill Machine", but she loved Anthony and made out her will in his favor.
Thomas (Tom) Lally
That being a fact may be what gave his friends - and especially Tom Lally - the idea to kill her so that Anthony might inherit her house and bank account as soon as possible. Day by day, they watched forensics programs on television for hours, and that cemented their belief that they would be able to stage a murder to look like an accident.
The fact that this 84 years old woman had been very kind and generous to all of them didn't furnish any empathy or even gratitude in them: They wanted to have everything which she had earned in her hair-dressing career, and obviously didn't respect her as a fellow human being, only as some kind of money-machine to be exploited.
When she was found dead at the foot of her staircase, Tom Lally had broken her neck, hitting her with her own frying pan, while Anthony kept guard outside the house. It's heartbreaking that while she was being hit, she was screaming for Anthony to help her.
Quite a heavy murder weapon
One of the other young men had hit her with her tea kettle, and still she didn't die. Tom Lally strangled her, and then they dragged her to the steps of the staircase and positioned her with a bag of trash so that it looked like she had had a fatal accident when carrying that one down. A lie which was believed for some time, namely until Jason admitted the murder to Jim Morel, and he told the police.
Being proud of what they had accomplished without being found out, Jason may have taken for granted that Jim Morel was for their "deed", and he obviously bragged about it. However, all three murderers were sentenced to jail which, I suppose, is some kind of consolation for what they did to the kind and generous Mariana. To me, the main point in a case like this one is the total lack of empathy that signals a just as total lack of respect of her and her life.
Anthony Calabro
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92623874/marina-mary-calabro
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/criminal_mind/psychology/csi_effect/1_index.html
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