Results 1 to 2 of 2

Thread: Vito Pelino Sentenced to LWOP in 2011 PA Brutal Slaying of William King

  1. #1
    Administrator Heidi's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2010
    Posts
    33,217

    Vito Pelino Sentenced to LWOP in 2011 PA Brutal Slaying of William King

    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.

    Read more: Dismembered Penn Hills man was stabbed to death - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pitt...#ixzz1EVVBdp5r

  2. #2
    Senior Member CnCP Legend JLR's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2011
    Posts
    2,740
    An Allegheny County judge today sentenced a Penn Hills man to life without parole plus one to two years in prison for killing and dismembering another man.

    A jury in March convicted Vito Pelino, 27, of first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse for killing William King, 23, of Penn Hills and chopping up his body to hide it on a wooded hillside in Plum.

    Pelino apologized to King's family, but several of King's relatives said they can't forgive his murder of a gentle, cheerful sports fanatic.

    "This animal deserves the death penalty," Michael King told Common Pleas Judge Edward J. Borkowski. "To be put to death like my brother was."

    Pelino was facing a mandatory life sentence on the murder conviction. Borkowski sentenced him to one to two years in prison on the misdemeanor charge of abusing a corpse.

    Pelino killed King on Feb. 13, 2011, after finding him at Pelino's sister's apartment, police said. He gave King a ride from the apartment but, instead of taking King home, took him to a house Pelino's mother owned in Verona where he stabbed King 72 times and then chopped up his body, police said.

    Pelino said King's death haunts him.

    "I deserve every word of (Mark King's) anger and his feelings toward me," Pelino said.

    Leo Robinson, King's uncle, said Pelino is a monster.

    "William was harmless," he said. "In 23 years he was never in a fight."

    Doris Pryor, King's grandmother, said after the hearing that knowing Pelino will spend the rest of his life in prison will help the family heal.

    "(William) would have wanted us to move on," she said.

    http://triblive.com/news/1990741-74/...liam-apartment

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •