A New Hampshire man who shot and killed his wife while traveling in Vermont in 2021 was sentenced to 42 years to life in prison Thursday, April 24 in Burlington.
Joseph Ferlazzo, 45, claimed he killed Emily Jean Schwarz, 22, in self-defense while they were in a camper in Bolton. Prosecutors said he tried to cover up the crime. A jury convicted Ferlazzo in December after a trial.
According to VDC reports in 2021, Ferlazzo went out for breakfast the morning after shooting his wife twice in the head during an anniversary celebration trip in their camper Saturday Oct.16 in Bolton, according to court records. He later drove her body to a St. Albans driveway where he dismembered the body with a hacksaw and placed the body parts in plastic bags.
The judge called it a “horrendous” crime and a case of “extreme” domestic violence, according to TV news reports.
Schwarz attended schools in Hopkinton and Orford before graduating from Concord High School. She was passionate about cross country and track, earned an LNA license, and was an aspiring singer, according to her obituary.
Photos for this news story appeared in Vermont Daily Chronicle 2021 news coverage.
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“New Hampshire man”? Maybe, but bro and his wife both previously worked at Body Art Tattoo in downtown Burlington.
Justice is tough to come by in this state, 4+ years? Our court system needs a complete overhaul.
Meanwhile we are tied up with civil issues day in and out, somebody built a house 6 inches too high.
Our state, no so long ago was home to never having to lock your car door and the biggest news was a cow got loose and was hit by a car. We have been going down the sewer drain of big city policies for far too long.
We need a change. We need to flush Montpelier of its’ New World Order minions, regular Vermonters can bring about the necessary change needed. We don’t need transplants from Chicago, from New York with the subversive progressive ideologies ruining and running a perfectly good republic into the ground.
Joseph Ferlazzo, 45, claimed he killed Emily Jean Schwarz, 22, in self-defense, yes she looks like a real terror ………… so it was self defense, so why did her ” Chop ” her up !!
It took four years to find this POS, guilty, it was bad enough he killed her for what ever his made up reason was in his mind, he ” DISMEMBERED ” her body…….. wtf !!!
This clown should never see the light of day
Twice in the head sometimes would be ruled as a suicide, but only in certain political cases.