A former Erie County man who is serving a life sentence for the murder of his wife, the former Amanda Elizabeth Schmitt of Altoona, will receive another opportu
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.