Dismembered Penn Hills man was stabbed to death
A Penn Hills man whose dismembered remains were left on a wooded hillside was repeatedly stabbed to death, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's Office concluded.
William King, 24, died of multiple stab wounds to the head, neck and trunk, according to the results of an autopsy released Saturday.
Allegheny County police on Thursday charged Vito Pelino, 25, of Penn Hills with homicide, abuse of a corpse and kidnapping in connection with King's death. Pelino was in the county jail without bail, awaiting a preliminary hearing Feb. 25.
Witnesses reported last seeing King early Sunday with Pelino's sister, Nattale Pelino Turner, 34, at her Oakmont apartment after the two left Hula Bar & Grill in Verona together, police said. Pelino showed up at the apartment and said he would take King home, according to police.
It appears Pelino was "upset with his sister for messing around and wanted the guy out because the sister was cheating," county police Lt. Andrew Schurman said. Oakmont police arrested Turner on Monday after her boyfriend reported that she had threatened to stab him.
Pelino drove King in his Oldsmobile Cutlass to a home owned by his mother on Verona Road, where Pelino lives, police said. He killed King and dismembered his body there before calling an unidentified man to help him dispose of the body, according to police.
King died of multiple stab wounds, Schurman said.
No one answered the door of the Pelino home yesterday for a Tribune-Review reporter.
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