James Pietragallo
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As you would imagine they would.
But they were in their chairs and couldn't do anything to make him stop or to even get away from them.
All they could do is watch.
So he went over and beat them both to death in their recliners with baseball bats.
Oh, my word.
His 89-year-old grandfather and his 85-year-old grandmother.
I had old grandparents.
I had my grandmothers.
Both lived to be 93.
And they were so frail.
When you hugged them, it was like, oh, God, gentle, gentle.
Don't break them.
Can't imagine.
This is horrifying to do anything violent or even anything just like that.
Quick motions you don't want to do around them.
So it gets worse.
During the attack at some point Bertha May Parker came downstairs, probably heard the commotion I would imagine, and she sees what's going on and makes a run for it.