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May 21, 2015
May 21st- The Long Island Lolita
By spring of 1992, AMY FISHER was pressuring Joey to leave his wife, Mary Jo. Joey had no intentions of breaking up his marriage, and flatly refused to entertain the idea.
Consumed with rage, Amy headed over to the Buttafuoco home. When Mary Jo came to the door, after a very brief conversation, Amy shot her in the head at close range. Miraculously, as mentioned, Mrs. Buttafuoco lived to tell the tale but was left with a bullet in her head and her face partially paralyzed. - - This Day in History
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A perfect example of why one empties the magazine. That bit about anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice actually needs extension.
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at May 21, 2015 9:28 AM
She doesn't look nearly hot enough to justify the risk.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 21, 2015 1:10 PM
Shaved beaver.
Posted by: ghostsniper at May 21, 2015 2:28 PM
If I recall correctly, Miss Fisher was released from prison a few years later. Dangerous.
Posted by: Grizzly at May 21, 2015 7:17 PM
How to be a loser and get lots of notoriety.
Serves Mary Jo right for hooking up with a punk like Joey In the first place.
Amy got her rewards for the same reason. Fisher shot her in the face with a .25 caliber semiautomatic pistol. A twenny-five? Like a pellet gun. She was initially charged with first-degree attempted murder, but eventually pleaded guilty to first-degree aggravated assault and served six years in prison.
Annnd, heeeeere's Joey:
Buttafuoco has been charged with crimes on several occasions since the 1992 shooting incident.
In 1995, he pled no contest to a solicitation of prostitution charge and was fined and placed on probation for two years.
In 2004, he was sentenced to a year in jail and five years of probation after pleading guilty to auto insurance fraud. As part of the sentence, he is prohibited from working in the auto body industry in California for the rest of his life.
In August 2005, he was charged with illegal possession of ammunition. As a convicted felon, he is legally not permitted to own ammunition. Probation officers found the ammunition during a search of his home. He pled no contest and began serving his sentence on January 8, 2007. He was released on April 28, 2007.
Posted by: chasmatic at May 21, 2015 10:26 PM
With a name like Buttafuoco, you would think he could make it as a button or get made in some family.
Buttafuoco is an epic fail.
Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck at May 22, 2015 3:21 AM
The wise guys would probably pick Amy before him.
Posted by: chasmatic at May 22, 2015 10:57 AM
Amy got her rewards for the same reason. Fisher shot her in the face with a .25 caliber semiautomatic pistol. A twenny-five? Like a pellet gun
Not really. Although you may be right if used in the front of the skull, I don't know. I do know that the .25 cal. semi-auto was the favorite of both Soviet and Nazi executioners with one shot to the back of the skull. Worked thousands of times.
Posted by: DonRodrigo at May 22, 2015 12:04 PM
It had been said by many, even at the time, that the person who should have been shot was Joey Buttafuoco. And by both women acting in unison with two guns.
Posted by: DonRodrigo at May 22, 2015 12:06 PM