Kathleen Prisco got quite stabby, Ralph is dead

**MadeaBecBec** · November 1st, 2009, 11:55 PM

Kathleen Prisco

An attorney for the Fort Salonga woman charged with stabbing her husband to death will Monday ask a Suffolk judge for a psychiatric exam to determine her fitness to stand trial, the Garden City lawyer said Sunday.

As the defense attorney, Thomas F. Liotti, prepared Sunday night to meet relatives of Kathleen Prisco in the home where prosecutors say she killed her husband, Ralph Prisco, 54, Liotti said he would seek to defer a decision on bail. Prisco is due to appear Monday at Suffolk District Court for a bail hearing.

"I'm going to ask that she be removed to a hospital," said Liotti, who had been unable to meet with Kathleen Prisco since taking on the case earlier Sunday. Liotti said he'd also request that a psychologist retained by the defense attend any evaluations.

Prisco was put on suicide watch at the Riverhead jail after prosecutors charged her with second-degree murder. They say she knifed her husband more than 12 times in an attack that began in the master bedroom Friday.

The Prisco family had been expected to attend a ball in Holbrook that evening to benefit the nonprofit AHRC Suffolk, which assists about 2,500 people with developmental disabilities.

Ralph Prisco, a lawyer, had helped plan the event and bought a banquet table of 10 seats, said AHRC president Fred Salzberg. "We just received notice that they would not attend, but really had no idea what had occurred," he said. "We were pretty shocked."

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/s...ying-1.1560081
Video of her being arrested at above link, too!

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (WPIX) - A Long Island woman accused of fatally stabbing her husband more than a dozen times pleaded not guilty Saturday.

Kathleen Prisco attacked her husband during a domestic dispute at their Fort Salonga home Friday, prosecutors said. Cops found Ralph Prisco, 54, with more than a dozen stab wounds on the floor of his foyer. He was rushed to Stony Brook University Medical Center by helicopter where he was pronounced dead.
Cops found Mrs. Prisco in the couple's bedroom, where she reportedly told them she had taken over-the-counter medication.

http://www.wpix.com/news/local/wpix-...,5855958.story
WOW! That's some STRONG meds, eh?

**Misskittychaos** · November 2nd, 2009, 10:27 AM

Cops found Mrs. Prisco in the couple's bedroom, where she reportedly told them she had taken over-the-counter medication.

And that makes it okay? Taking some cough meds or something like that doesn't make you homicidal! I'm curious what the "domestic dispute" was...

**MC30** · November 2nd, 2009, 10:40 AM

robo-trippen'? turbo-tussin?

**backlash** · November 2nd, 2009, 11:09 AM

She saw a spider on his shirt, and tried to swipe it off, but forgot she had a knife in her hand?

**MadeaBecBec** · November 2nd, 2009, 01:57 PM

"There will come a point when I can speak about my family and about who we are, but this is just very difficult right now," said Matthew, who graduated from Princeton University in June.

Neighbors were shocked, but one woman said the normally reserved Kathleen, 48, had appeared particularly withdrawn in recent days. Matthew, who found his dad's body, is handling the funeral arrangements as he watches over his sister, Melissa, 19, and brother, Christopher, 17.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/s...H9FFOFpTGq2v7I

My heartfelt sympathies to the loved ones of Ralph, may he rest in peace.

**drkeegee** · November 2nd, 2009, 04:21 PM

WOW! That's some STRONG meds, eh?

Stronger than a wino's skivies

**backlash** · November 2nd, 2009, 04:30 PM

Originally Posted by MadeaBecBec

Her eyes look very sad and hurt, not psychotic like most mugshots we see here. I would guess she either found out her husband was having an affair or that he was leaving her. If she was a devoted wife and mother, then found that out, I could see her losing it...

**LocalCelebrity** · November 2nd, 2009, 04:38 PM

Cops found Mrs. Prisco in the couple's bedroom, where she reportedly told them she had taken over-the-counter medication.

That Advil can be a doozy....... WTF????

**MadeaBecBec** · November 2nd, 2009, 07:02 PM

Kathleen Prisco, the Fort Salonga woman accused of killing her husband, allegedly admitted to the police that she had stabbed him because "he was gonna frame me. . . there was a knife by my bed," according to court papers made public Monday morning.

Both the defense and the prosecution said during a Central Islip bail hearing that they did not know what she meant by that statement.....

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/s...-say-1.1562063

You gotta have an online subscription to read the rest of the story, which I don't have, if anyone else does, please post! TIA
I am really curious about the "frame me" statement! That is too weird....