Daniel Horowitz - Pamela Vitale's Murder

Pamela Vitale's Murder

Vitale and Horowitz had been married nearly 11 years when, on October 15, 2005, he found his wife dead at the mobile home in Lafayette in Contra Costa County, California. The couple had lived in the mobile home since they were married although the dream home they had been building on the same acreage was near completion when Vitale was murdered. At the time, Horowitz was defending Susan Polk in her murder trial. Medical examiners have concluded that Vitale died from blunt trauma to the head. When contacted via cell phone by a Bay Area newspaper, Horowitz said, "I can't talk, I can't. It's beyond words."

On October 20, 2005 police arrested a 16-year-old boy, from Lafayette, California, Scott Dyleski, in connection to the crime. Horowitz had never met the boy but had done free legal work for Kim Curiel who was a co-owner in the house where Dyleski lived. Curiel was partners with Dyleski's mother in the business.

Dyleski was convicted of killing Pamela Vitale on August 28, 2006. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on September 26, 2006.