Leslie Ann Mazzara
Adriane Insogna
Posted on 09/28/2005 10:33:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Police made a major break Wednesday in a 2004 double murder that shocked the wine country.
The day after Halloween last year, police found the brutally stabbed bodies of Leslie Mazzara and Adriane Insogna in their Napa home.
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, officers arrested 26-year-old Eric Matthew Copple, and charged him with two counts of murder. Police say the Napa resident was involved in the fatal stabbings.
Mazzara, 26, was a former beauty queen from South Carolina, who was working at a winery near Napa. Insagana, 26, was an engineer with the Napa Sanitation District. Their killer allegedly stole into their home on Dorset Street, went upstairs, and killed both women.
CBS 5 has learned that Lilly Copple, the suspect’s wife, was a co-worker of Insagana. Copple was also a part-time employee of a company that often did business with the Sanitation District. investigators have not said what role those relationships may have played in the crimes.
Police and federal agents have spent the last 11 months working the case. They recently announced that DNA evidence indicated that the killer was a white male, who smoked a special brand of Camel cigarettes, called Turkish Gold.
Police are not saying whether that particular clue led to the break in the case. Officers have remained tight-lipped about the evidence. A joint press conference of the Napa Police Department and the Napa District Attorney’s Office is scheduled for Thursday.
Copple is now being held without bail at the county jail.
Glad they caught the Bastard!
You know, it's going to be for some stupid reason that he killed these women. But I once wanted to kill someone over just such a stupid thing, because I felt threatened, because I feared I'd lose my job, and it would have been this person's fault. I bet a dollar to a donut it is something like that.
Two women .. probably lesbians .. the one who worked with his wife might have been too friendly with her .. trying to draw her into the relationship ..??
Who knows .. people have gone whacky in the last few years.
Wow, didn't know they could tell what you smoked by looking at your DNA! ;-)
"....special brand of Camel cigarettes, called Turkish Gold."
Twenty five billion a year isn't very special.
Leslie Ann Mazzara
Adriane Insogna
That's very much like how Sherlock Holmes solved a couple of cases. Interesting to see such things actually used to solve a real crime.
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