family sits glued to their tv set, knowing that it could have been them. it very easily could have been us. we were expecting it, though. i don t think they were expecting it. i don t think too many people realize what he was capable of doing. before he dated tracy whitehead, joe palczynski s girlfriend was 16-year-old stacy culotta, the daughter of diane and vince culotta. he used to tell her all the time if she broke up with him that he d set the house on fire with us in it. it was a chance encounter at a local gas station that brought stacy culotta and joe palczynski together in july of 1996. early on, joe showered her with gifts and his undivided attention, as he did with most of his girlfriends. i am trying to look at it from my daughter s point of view or any 16-year-old s point of view, is that here is a guy, you know, an older guy that is
abuse against women. they confronted joe and told him to stop dating stacy, but then things got worse. what you find with fellows like this is that they have a sense of justification. they, in their way of viewing male-female relationships, the woman becomes a possession, and she is she belongs to that man just as he owns a 1995 ford escort. that s his property. if he wants to go out to kick the tires on the ford escort, he can do that. if he wants to slam the doors on it, if it doesn t start the way he wants it to, he could do that. he d be standing on the corner watching him go to work and an hour or two later, he would watch me go to work, and he would just be standing on the corner at the end of the development just standing there like, okay, dad s gone, mom s gone. she s by herself now. diane and vince mounted a letter-writing campaign to the police, the court system and
like this is that they have a sense of justification. they, in their way of viewing male-female relationships, the woman becomes a possession, and she is she belongs to that man just as he owns a 1995 ford escort. that s his property. if he wants to go out to kick the tires on the ford escort, he can do that. if he wants to slam the doors on it, if it doesn t start the way he wants it to, he could do that. he d be standing on the corner watching him go to work and an hour or two later, he would watch me go to work, and he would just be standing on the corner at the end of the development just standing there like, okay, dad s gone, mom s gone. she s by herself now. diane and vince mounted a letter-writing campaign to the police, the court system and joe s probation officer. i tried to get the police to do something, and they re like, he s standing across the street. he rode by. what do you want us to do?
expecting it. i don t think too many people realize what he was capable of doing. before he dated tracy whitehead, joe palczynski s girlfriend was 16-year-old stacy culotta, the daughter of diane and vince culotta. he used to tell her all the time if she broke up with him that he d set the house on fire with us in it. it was a chance encounter at a local gas station that brought stacy culotta and joe palczynski together in july of 1996. early on, joe showered her with gifts and his undivided attention, as he did with most of his girlfriends. i am trying to look at it from my daughter s point of view or any 16-year-old s point of view, is that here is a guy, you know, an older guy that is driving around in a sports car, clean-cut, well dressed, flashy and telling you what you want to hear, and buying you what you want to buy. despite the protests and suspicions her parents and friends have about joe, stacy