Reenacts boobytrap rigging in wife slaying

Associated Press · March 10, 1963

Pasquale Dellerose, 27, shows Assistant District Attorney Norman Mordkofsky in New York's Bronx early today how he rigged double-barreled shotgun in back seat of family car that killed his wife, Gloria, 19, yesterday. Police said Dellerose, a stone mason, admitted he murdered his wife by triggering the shotgun. The 12-gauge gun, both its barrels sawed down to spread the shot pattern, had been rigged with wire from two coat hangers and ropes from venetian blind, police said. Butt of weapon had been wedged under rear seat of car with muzzle thrust through upholstery slit at rear of left front seat.