Lethal Embrace

Lethal Embrace
Authors
Benson, Michael
Publisher
Pinnacle
ISBN
9780786017850
Date
2007-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.63 MB
Lang
en
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Single mother Lee Ann Armanini worked as a bartender in a strip joint in Long Island's South Shore when she got pregnant by Paul Riedel, owner of a health club in Amityville, Long Island. In 1988, Paul did the right thing and married her. The marriage was not a happy one, and Lee Ann left Riedel in 2000. She moved to Florida and took up with a mob-connected hood named Ralph "Rocco" Salierno.

Together, they plotted Riedel's murder in order to get his money and ownership of the health club. But Salierno murdered the wrong man - Alexander Algeri, Riedel's lifelong friend and business partner who bore an uncanny resemblance to Riedel and even drove the same kind of vehicle, a Ford Explorer.

In a notorious trial that was filled with sensational revelations about drug abuse, illicit sex, and wrong way murder, Lee Ann Riedel and Rocco Salierno were convicted of first-degree murder.