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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.
His wife s estate sued him for wrongful death 11 days after the slaying
Suit has ended with $10 million judgment, which estate s lawyer vows to collect, though Grazioli s finances appeared unstable at time of murder
An enormous financial judgment has been added to the high-profile Erie murder case of one-time financial manager John P. Grazioli.
The move guarantees that Grazioli, who once boasted that he oversaw more than $1 billion of other people s money, will go penniless as he serves a life sentence for fatally shooting his wife at their Millcreek Township home in 2018.
If, that is, Grazioli still has any assets of his own.