Murder Prozac 12/09/1998 New York Retired Policeman Kills Wife & Daughter
 
 Summary:<br><br><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><strong>Second from last paragraph reads: &quot;</strong>&quot;I did it, I did it, I planned it,&quot; he said, according to court papers. &quot;I shot my daughter in the neck to make her bleed. I watched her gurgle. ... She lasted almost an hour. My wife died instantly.&quot;</font></font><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><strong> He also said he&#39;d been taking the anti-depressant drug Prozac. <br />_______________________________________________________________________________<br />No death penalty in killings of wife, daughter <br /></strong>278 words<br />12 September 1998<br />00:51<br />Associated Press Newswires<br />English<br /><br />WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - The Westchester County district attorney will not seek the death penalty in the case of a retired policeman who allegedly shot and killed his ailing wife and their daughter. <br /><br />Anthony Ambrosovitch, 65, a former Mamaroneck policeman, allegedly made many incriminating, and sometimes cold-blooded, statements after his arrest in the June 11 killings at his home in Tarrytown. His 70-year-old wife, Gloria, and 40-year-old daughter, Melinda Podesta, were killed. <br /><br />District Attorney Jeanine Pirro said Ambrosovitch will face a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole if convicted of first-degree <strong>murder</strong>, instead of the death penalty. <br /><br />Pirro, who campaigned vigorously for the state&#39;s new death penalty law, has decided against seeking capital punishment in each of Westchester&#39;s four first-degree <strong>murder</strong> cases since it was enacted. She would say only that Friday&#39;s decision &quot;was reached after a careful and exhaustive review of all the facts and circumstances.&quot; <br /><br />&quot;I did it, I did it, I planned it,&quot; he said, according to court papers. &quot;I shot my daughter in the neck to make her bleed. I watched her gurgle. ... She lasted almost an hour. My wife died instantly.&quot; He also said he&#39;d been taking the anti-depressant drug <strong>Prozac</strong>. <br /><br />Kevin Doyle, who heads the state office that defends first-degree <strong>murder</strong> cases, said, &quot;Plainly, the district attorney has made the correct decision. ... This is a family tragedy, not a criminal atrocity, and it should be treated as such. In any event, in a very important sense, my client&#39;s life ended on the day of </font></font> 
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