Pizza Shop Owner Kills Partner and Leaves Body in Her Bedroom for Two Weeks [Current Affairs]

LOVE MURDER

Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette

True Crime, Comedy

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

A pizza parlor owner in Pennsylvania has pleaded guilty to murdering her common law husband and co-owner and leaving his body in their bedroom for weeks. She also hired a contractor to dig a 7x3x3 foot hole in their driveway with the intent to bury the body. Current Affairs is Love Murder's show about the stories of love gone fatally wrong that are in the news right now. Sources: https://6abc.com/anna-maria-tolomello-case-pinas-pizza-owner-murder-chalfont-bucks-county/14636351/ https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/local/2024/04/08/pinas-pizza-anna-tolomello-giovanni-gallina-murder-chalfont-hilltown-bucks-county-crime-guilty-plea/70417347007/ https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/04/08/pennsylvania-pizza-shop-owner-guilty-kill-co-owner/

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Kern Affairs, our show about the stories of Love Gone
0:11.4	Fadily wrong that are in the news right this minute.
0:14.4	These shorter contemporary stories come out every Friday while our extensive full-length
0:18.9	episodes come out on Wednesdays.
0:21.6	Pizza! It's supposed to be fun.
0:23.2	It's food for after winning kids sports games.
0:26.4	It's late night food for studying with friends in college.
0:29.0	If you're a millennial, it's a reminder
0:31.0	of bumpy red plastic cups and reading in the Book It Club so you could win a personal
0:36.6	pan pizza. That one's my personal favorite. But in one Pennsylvania town, pizza now has taken on the stench of murder.
0:45.0	50-year-old Anna Maria Tolomello owned Pina's Pizza in Chalfort, Pennsylvania with her 65-year-old
0:52.0	common-law husband, Giovanni Galena.
0:55.0	In late March 2022, Giovanni's son began to get concerned when his dad stopped responding to
1:00.5	WhatsApp messages.
1:02.0	The two sent messages back multiple times each day due to the
1:04.8	Sun living in Italy and it had been weeks since Giovanni had replied. The Sun
1:09.5	reported this to authorities who began investigating Giovanni's disappearance.
1:13.6	So what did common-law wife Anna Maria have to say about this?
1:17.0	She told the son that Giovanni was, quote, just a way on business.
1:20.8	What's more, according to the later criminal complaint she had never reported him
1:24.4	missing to any law enforcement agency. It wasn't long before the investigation
1:29.2	dug up some dubious details literally. At the end of March they spoke with a contractor who had been
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