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This Is Monsters

Patricia Columbo & Frank DeLuca : From Lovers to Killers

This Is Monsters

Jiles

True Crime

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

As a teenager, Patricia Columbo was dating 35-year-old Frank DeLuca. Her parents didn't approve of the relationship and were pressuring her to break up with him. The couple came up with a plan to silence them permanently.

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0:00.0

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0:06.7

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0:12.4

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0:15.5

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0:18.3

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0:20.4

On May 7, 1976, a call was made to the police in Chicago about a suspicious vehicle.

0:27.8

When an officer stopped by, they found a maroon 1972 for Thunderbird parked on the side of the road.

0:35.0

The hubcaps were missing, the driver's side window had been smashed, and the ignition had been pulled.

0:41.4

When the plates were run, they came back to a Frank Columbo and Elk Grove village, a suburb of Chicago.

0:48.6

The car hadn't been reported stolen, but it clearly had been, so the officer tried to call the Columbo residents, but got no response.

0:57.1

So he sent the report to the police in Elk Grove Village.

1:00.7

A few hours later, the local police sent an officer to the Columbo home to inform them that their car had been found.

1:08.0

On the porch, the officer immediately noticed that there were three days worth of newspapers and that the front door was a jar.

1:15.5

He called for backup, and when it arrived, they slowly entered the house to the front door.

1:20.8

Inside, they discovered the entire Columbo family had been killed.

1:25.7

That was, with the exception of 19-year-old Patti Columbo, she was nowhere to be found.

1:32.0

This is Monsters.

1:56.3

Patricia Columbo, who went by Patti, was born on June 21, 1956 in Chicago, Illinois to Frank and Mary Columbo.

2:07.7

Frank worked as a loading dock for him in a shipping terminal and Mary stayed at home with the baby, affording them a blue-color lifestyle.

2:15.9

Patti was an only child for quite a few years, playing with another girl in the neighborhood and eventually getting a sheep dog named Mike.

2:23.6

All that changed, though, when in 1963, Mary gave birth to another child, a boy they named Michael.

2:30.4

That's right, they already had a dog named Mike and they named their new baby, Mike.

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