BOARDMAN Man faces murder charge in stabbing death of wife

Police say there were no prior problems at the residence.
By JOHN W. GOODWIN JR.
VINDICATOR STAFF WRITER
BOARDMAN -- A township man is in Mahoning County jail charged with the murder of his wife.
Police charged Joseph Nazarini, 55, of 235 Oakley Ave., with aggravated murder. No bond has been set. He will be arraigned in Mahoning County Court here Tuesday morning.
Police said Nazarini, an unemployed substitute teacher, called police shortly before 9 a.m. Friday to report the crime. He surrendered to police a short time later at the home.
Capt. Jack Nichols said Nazarini had been experiencing financial distress.
Police said Nazarini stabbed his wife about 8 a.m. Thursday. He then sat with her body all day Thursday, police said, but by Friday morning he assumed her workplace would call the home and he decided to turn himself in to police.
Police said the body of Denise Nazarini, 52, who worked at Sky Bank in New Castle, was found in a bedroom. Police said she had suffered multiple stab wounds and appeared to have been dead for about 24 hours.
An official cause of death will be determined by the Mahoning County coroner.
No previous police contact
The Nazarinis had lived at the Oakley address for 12 years. Police had not been called to the house before Friday, and there is no record of prior contact by the couple with township police.
Boardman did not have any homicides in 2003.
Vindicator files show the township's last homicide was in June 2002 when John K. Ruble of Struthers was struck by a car and killed when he tried to stop a man who had stolen his wife's purse as they dropped off recyclables behind a township fire station.
Michael J. Hogan was convicted last October of murder and sentenced to 15 years to life in prison and an additional 10 years for robbery.
Township police also investigated the accidental drowning of a 2-year-old disabled boy in the bathtub of his Country Club Lane home in September 2002.