Arrested in slaying

Associated Press · November 30, 1958

Richard C. Mazziotti,14,is guarded by a Nassau County detective in police headquarters here after arrest in the slaying of boy's 23-year-old aunt, Mrs. Mary Lou Wright. The woman was found battered and strangled last night in the kitchen of her apartment in nearby Valley Stream, N.Y. Young Mazziotti was quoted by police as saying he killed Mrs. Wright "because of a sudden urge I can't explain."