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Complicated legal issues in Parente murder-suicide

The first legal papers seeking to deal with the estate of Betty Ann Parente, who was killed along with her two daughters by her husband, William Parente, before he killed himself last month outside Baltimore, illustrate some of the complicated issues the courts have to resolve in such cases. Joseph A. Mazzarella of Massapequa, Betty Parente's cousin and a funeral director, filed a petition Wednesday...

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