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Dad in murder-suicide had LI roots

Sam Friedlander is pictured as a senior in

Photo credit: Barry Sloan | Sam Friedlander is pictured as a senior in the 1979 Farmingdale High School "Hi-Life" Yearbook. (Oct. 20, 2011)

Born on Independence Day in 1961, Samuel Friedlander grew up in North Massapequa as the quiet, studious child of a union electrician and substitute teacher, former neighbors said Thursday.

He was an up-and-coming young prosecutor in the early 1990s in the Suffolk district attorney's office, a former colleague said.

Those who remembered the 1979 Farmingdale High School graduate were shocked...

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