Not All Boys Are Scouts

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Written By Samantha Burns

Scott Dyleski may have once been a Boy Scout, but today, the 17-year-old is being tried as an adult for the brutal murder of attorney, Daniel Horowitz’s wife, Pamela Vitale, which took place in the fall of 2005.

“Prosecutors say Dyleski put on a ski mask and gloves and attacked 52-year-old Vitale around 10 a.m. that Saturday.

Friends and housemates of the teen testified in a pretrial hearing that Dyleski expressed concern after Vitale's death that his DNA would be found under her nails. He also told a bizarre story, they said, of running into a strange woman who looked like Vitale during a nature walk that day, and that she gripped his arm tightly before driving off in her car.”

It is alleged that Dyleski believed some marijuana-growing supplies he had ordered were mistakenly delivered to Vitale’s home, so he went to the property to find the supplies, only to end in confrontation with Vitale. [source]

You know, they say drugs can tear a family apart, but I’m guessing they didn’t mean this when they said it.

At the time, Vitale was busy employing her passion for Italian architecture by designing the family’s dream home.

“’She would say, “This is our house for the rest of our lives, so I have to put the energy in now to do it,”’ Horowitz said. The home was about 80 percent completed when she was murdered.”

It is believed that the architectural supplies Vitale was using to fashion the home were also the ones used by Dyleski to beat Vitale to death. [source]

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