Thursday, September 29, 2011

Brandywine Hundred, DE: Woman arrested in husband's death

A Brandywine Hundred woman was
arrested Tuesday night for killing her 59-
year-old husband on Sept. 16, police said
Wednesday.

Donna M. Sciglitano, 60, of the 200 block
of Beau Tree Drive in the Beau Tree
community, was committed to Baylor
Women's Correctional Institution on charges
of first-degree murder.

Nino Sciglitano Sr., owner of Kip Flooring in
Claymont, was found in the couple's home,
dead from a gunshot wound to the head,
according to court records. Police said
Donna Sciglitano was found in a second-
floor bedroom unconscious from a drug
overdose.

Donna Sciglitano took a "deliberate
overdose of pills" after the shooting, police
said. She was taken to Christiana Hospital.

Donna Sciglitano allegedly told a hospital
staff member that she bought a gun, then
used it to shoot her husband as he slept,
according to court records.

The couple's son told police that he arrived
at the home with his sister about 1 p.m.
and did not initially see anyone. He said it
was not unusual for his mother to "stay in
her bedroom all day and not be seen,"
police said in court records.

He found his mother lying on the bedroom
floor, police said. She told him that "she
killed his father and pleaded with him not
to call 911 because she didn't want to go
to jail," police said in court records.

The son then went into the family room and
found his father dead on the couch. Police
arrived about an hour later.

Investigators found a Ruger revolver in the
master bedroom, about five feet from
where the wife was lying, according to court
records. The revolver contained three live .
38-caliber rounds and two spent rounds,
police said. An autopsy conducted by the
state Medical Examiner's Office confirmed
that Nino Sciglitano Sr. died from gunshot
wounds to his head.

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