An Erie County judge has approved a settlement of
$10 million to the estate of a former Altoona woman who was murdered by her husband in March 2018.
The victim, Amanda Elizabeth Schmitt, 31, a school teacher, was married to John Grazioli of Erie for only six months, when on the morning of March 8, 2018, he took a handgun and shot his wife while she was in bed.
She died instantly of a head wound.
Grazioli, then 44, left a suicide note at the scene of the killing that read, “I killed Amanda Schmitt Grazioli. I killed myself. I am profoundly sorry.”
But he did not kill himself.
Pa. man who shot and killed his wife with her ‘birthday present’ must pay her estate $10M
Updated Apr 13, 2021;
A Pennsylvania judge on Tuesday approved a $10 million settlement of a lawsuit against a husband who shot and killed his wife with the pistol he claimed he had bought her for her birthday.
The order by Erie County Judge Stephanic Domitrovich means John Grazioli, the wealthy owner of an asset management company, must pay that money to the estate of his late wife Amanda.
John Grazioli is serving a life prison sentence for killing his 31-year-old wife at their home in Mill Creek Township on March 8, 2018.