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Patricia "Patty" Columbo D.I.Y. Orphans

Frank and Mary
In Season 9, Episode 2, Patricia "Patty" Columbo is Frank and Mary and her younger brother, Michael with her partner, Frank DeLuca.
featured on D.I.Y. Orphans. This is the story of how Patricia "Patty" Columbo committed murder upon her parents,

Patricia "Patty" Columbo was convicted of the murders and  sentenced to 200 to 300 years.

According to their parole review (see link): 

Michael Columbo
Frank DeLuca met Patricia “Patty” Columbo when she was 16 and he was 34.  They began a sexual relation.  He was married and a father of five children.  Patty’s parents were against this relationship and patty moved out at age 18 to live with him.  He left his wife and five children and shared an apartment with Patty.  The relationship with Patty’s parents was hostile.  Several months before the murders Patty met with individuals she wished to hire to hill her family.  She would pay them with promised money from her parent’s estate and sex.  When it became clear those individuals would not hill her family, she and Frank DeLuca decided they would have to do it themselves.  On May 4, 1976, they entered the Columbo home and Frank DeLuca shot Frank Columbo in the head and bludgeoned him.  They shot Mary Columbo between her eyes, slot her throat and bludgeoned her.  They pulled 13 year old Michael Columbo out of his bed and shot him in the head.  Patty they stabbed him 93 times on both sides of his body.  They then ransacked the home and took Mr. and Mrs. Columbo’s vehicles and left them in high crime areas of the city to create the idea that they had been victims of a home invasion by gang members.  The bodies of the Columbo family were found on May 7th.  Patty had been the planner of the murders and alibis.  They were both arrested and stood a jury trial and convicted.  At the time of the instant offense, Patty was 19 and Frank was 37.

You can write to Patricia "Patty" Columbo at:

Patricia "Patty" Columbo C77200
Logan Correctional Center
P.O. Box 1000
Lincoln, IL 62656

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