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DA: Suspect admitted he loved woman he fatally stabbed

As Laura Pizzini bled to death from a deep stab wound, her accused killer lay down next to her, a final gesture of infatuation that, officials say, led to her murder.

"By his own admission, she says, 'Why did you do this to me?' " Suffolk Assistant District Attorney James Chalifoux said Tuesday after the arraignment of Guenter Wende, the man charged in her death. "He's explaining to her that...

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