Poker Player In Murder-Suicide: Allegedly Killed Wife, Attempted to Kill Girlfriend

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Poker Player In Murder-Suicide: Allegedly Killed Wife, Attempted to Kill Girlfriend
  • Nassau County Police Department say poker player Vincent Maiolica committed the murder-suicide on March 12th in Massapequa Long Island, New York

  • After neighbours alerted the police, all three were found covered in blood.

  • Mailolica is said to have hanged himself

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A poker player with three cashes in World Series of Poker events is alleged to have killed himself after murdering his wife and gravely injuring his girlfriend.

34-year-old Vincent Maiolica, from East Meadow in New York, is said to have committed the murder-suicide on March 12th in Massapequa Long Island, New York, with audio of his savage attack caught on a neighbouring Ring camera.

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Mailica's wife, 29-year-old Irene Spantopanagos, was found brutally stabbed and died the next day.  An unidentified 22-year-old female was also found covered in blood and remains hospitalized. Maiolica is believed to have hanged himself.

Spantopanagos was the mother of Mailica's 17-month-old child.

Neighbors were stunned and ran over to the house to help.  

"The girl across the street was sitting on her front porch," an eye witness relayed.  "And she's like 'help me, help me, I can't breathe, I've been stabbed'."

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The poker player died from his self-inflicted wounds a few days after the incident.

In 2013, Mailica had his skull cracked open during a brawl outside a Brooklyn restaurant.

A GoFundMe page was set up for Spantopanagos' young child.

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