Wife booked with murder for hire

Submitted by anthony on Tue, 2009-03-10 22:19

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'A marriage gone cold and a lust for money led to a murder-for-hire plot that left a well-respected Folsom area paramedic dead, and his wife and an accomplice behind bars, authorities said Monday.

The plot, apparently in the works for months, culminated in the strangling of Mario Scramuzza Jr., 48, Friday night. St. Tammany Parish sheriff's deputies began to investigate the case Saturday morning. By Monday, the victim's wife, Gina Scramuzza, 41, and Carlos A. Rodriguez, 38, of Kenner were booked with first-degree murder.
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The plot unraveled almost immediately, when deputies noticed inconsistencies in Gina Scramuzza's story and demeanor, Detective Sgt. George Cox said.

"She didn't act like a grieving widow," he said. During a weekend interrogation, she confessed to the killing and fingered Rodriguez as her accomplice, he said.'

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