In today’s article, we will be exploring some disturbing details of Gina Scramuzza, the wife turned murderer of Mario Scramuzza.
Louisiana Paramedic Strangled To Death By Disgruntled Wife’s Lover
Polaroids of Mario Scramuzza’s parts were found at the crime scene after his wife, Gina, worked with her lover
In February 2009, 20 years into an unhappy marriage with fire department paramedic Mario Scramuzza, 45-year-old CAT scan technician Gina Scramuzza had had enough. Instead of filing for divorce, however, she and her lover, Carlos Rodriguez, had a better idea — why not just kill her husband?
Gina Scramuzza, a 45-year-old CAT scan technician, had had enough of her miserable marriage to fire department paramedic Mario Scramuzza after 20 years.
Rather than filing for divorce, she and her boyfriend, Carlos Rodriguez, thought it would be a better idea to murder her husband.
Moreover, Gina met Rodriguez in the East Jefferson General Hospital in Metairie, Louisiana, a few months before the crime, in 2008.
She believed their relationship would grow into something more, despite the fact that they were never sexually connected, as described in this week’s episode of Oxygen’s “Killer Couples.”
Mario was a paramedic at the local fire department, and, according to longtime friend Lee Hinson, he spent all his off days with his and Gina’s 13-year-old son.
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When taken in for police questioning, Gina was at first reluctant to provide investigators with any details about her and Rodriguez’s relationship. When her interviewer made an offhand comment about Rodriguez’s nine-months pregnant wife, however, her attitude instantly changed.
“She looked at me, sat upright and said, you might want to get another pad,” Detective Stacey Griffin told “Killer Couples.”
Gina had no idea Rodriguez was married. Furious, she spilled all the details about their plan to murder Mario. After she got done saying all this, Griffin said, the disgruntled got up to go home, and was surprised when police told her she was being taken into custody.
Gina Scramuzza, Rodriguez, Hernandez and Montoya all went to trial for the murder-for-hire plot. Montoya was sentenced to 35 years in prison, while his three co-conspirators were sentenced to life, according to the New Orleans Advocate.
In 2013, Gina Scramuzza was sentenced to life in jail without the possibility of release. She was suspected of paying three men to assassinate her husband, but she escaped the death penalty by pleading guilty. As a result, she is presently receiving a life sentence as of 2022.
Furthermore, Scramuzza pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in a St. Tammany Parish courtroom. Judge August Hand sentenced Gina Scramuzza, then 45, to life in prison without the prospect of release or a suspended sentence for her participation in Mario Scramuzza’s death in 2009. Carlos Rodriguez, 42, on the other hand, was scheduled to stand trial.
Gina Scramuzza Age And Kids
Gina Scramuzza is currently at the age of 54-year-old. Gina Scramuzza and her husband Mario Scramuzza had a son.
“Mario’s light, his sunshine in this world, was his son,” Hinson told “Killer Couples.”
Divorce would likely mean Mario spending less time with his son, which he simply did not see as an option, prosecutor Jerry Smith told “Killer Couples.” So, at Rodriguez’s suggestion, Gina turned to a more extreme solution.
She had been telling Rodriguez that her husband was abusive — and one day, Rodriguez asked if she wanted to “get rid of him,” according to the New Orleans Advocate. She said yes.
Gina Scramuzza’s lover Carlos Rodriguez
According to the New Orleans Advocate, Gina Scramuzza had been telling Rodriguez that her husband was violent, and one day, her boyfriend Carlos Rodriguez asked if she wanted to get rid of him and she agreed.
Gina Scramuzza lavished Rodriguez with expensive gifts. She bought him a cell phone so they could talk in secret, according to the New Orleans Advocate.
She gave him $1,200 to help him cover child support, according to police interview recordings featured on the show. And at one point, she even bought Rodriguez a Nissan Murano — only Rodriguez wasn’t happy enough with that, so she went back to the dealership and bought him a Hummer instead, Detective Keith Canizaro told “Killer Couples,” airing Thursdays at 8/7c.
According to ABC News, Gina Scramuzza paid Luis Hernandez and Erly Montoya $500 apiece on February 28, 2009, to accompany Rodriguez to her house in Covington, Louisiana.
Hernandez and Montoya couldn’t communicate in English and assumed they were being paid to loot the residence. Rodriguez, on the other hand, attacked Mario at gunpoint, tied him up, and strangled him to death with a zip tie when he returned home.
