Nassau County District Attorney Anne T. Donnelly announced that a North Bellmore man pleaded guilty today to stabbing his wife to death in their home in October 2022 while their eight-year-old child was in his bedroom.
Anthony Paruolo, 39, pleaded guilty today before Judge Robert A. Schwartz to Murder in the Second Degree (an A-I felony).
The defendant is expected to be sentenced to 20 years to life in prison on January 30, 2025.
“This defendant’s brutal murder of his wife destroyed a family and left a young child to grow up without a mother,” said DA Donnelly. “This case serves as a devastating reminder of the tragic toll of domestic violence. We will continue to seek justice for Danielle Paruolo and her family, and we hope that today’s plea will provide them with some measure of closure.”
DA Donnelly said that on October 6, 2022, at approximately 11:40 p.m., Nassau County Police Department officers responded to a call about a domestic disturbance at the defendant’s North Bellmore home. Danielle Paruolo, 42, was looking to separate from her husband and had been taking steps toward a divorce, which led to the incident.
When authorities arrived, they found Paruolo deceased in a pool of blood with an approximately 13-inch-long chef’s knife in her neck and stab wounds to her head, neck, and torso.
The couple’s eight-year-old child was found unharmed in another bedroom.
Paruolo was arrested on October 7, 2022, at approximately 1:06 a.m. at a relative’s home in Kings Park by the Suffolk County Police Department and transported to the NCPD Homicide Squad.
The case is being prosecuted by Senior Litigation Counsel Ania Pulaski of the Homicide Bureau, under the supervision of Deputy Bureau Chief Daryl Levy, and under the overall supervision of Executive Assistant District Attorney for the Litigation Division Kevin Higgins. The defendant is represented by David Haber, Esq.