Las Vegas Rich Having Financial Crisis Ending In Murder/Suicide
There has been a rash of murder suicides in Las Vegas, Nevada and they all have one thing in common…FINANCIAL TROUBLE!
A recent case has really stunned the Las Vegas community, Donald and Barbara Romano residents of Las Vegas for more than 50 years were found dead on August 20 in their million-dollar Summerlin home by their housekeeper.
The couple was involved in the real estate business and due to economic woe’s they have been in financial trouble.
Recent murder-suicides handled by Las Vegas police include:
■ Aug. 7: Phil Testa, 74, who shot and killed his wife Angelina, 79, before taking his own life during a standoff with police.
■ Aug. 16: Susan Kapfer, 50, who took a gun into Valley Hospital and Medical Center and killed her husband, Mike, who suffered from a debilitating physical and mental illness. In a suicide note, she compared their relationship to that of Romeo and Juliet.
■ Aug. 19: Edith Corona, 19, and Jose Zergara Rodriguez, 20, were killed in the northwest valley after Rodriguez shot Corona before turning the gun on himself.
■ Aug. 20: On the same day the Romanos were found dead, Steven Becker, 56, shot and killed Shannon Larkin, 48, before killing himself at Tiberti Mini Warehouses on Valley View Boulevard. Another woman at the business was injured by Becker, but survived.
