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Friends: East Northport mother, son a devoted pair

Quick ReadPolice said the two were killed by Connele's father in the family's longtime home in East Northport.

Ann Pabo, 47, of East Northport, is seen

Photo credit: Handout | Ann Pabo, 47, of East Northport, is seen with her son, Connele Pabo. The two were beaten to death on July 21, 2010, by Connele's father, Scott Maxwell, who then committed suicide, police said. (March 7, 2009)

Ann Pabo didn't know how to make a race car out of wood.

But when her son, Connele, then a second-grader and Cub Scout, needed a Pinewood Derby car, she did her best.

The result - a too-light car with pieces facing backward - didn't deter the East Northport mother from cheering her son or attending his Scout meetings.

"She could have said, 'I can't make this car,' but she didn't,"...

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