The Manhattan DA’s office released a timeline of how they identified Lauren Pazienza, who is facing manslaughter and assault charges in the death of vocal coach Barbara Gustern. Prosecutors say an eyewitness to the assault helped identify the suspect seen in surveillance video.
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The murderer’s lawyer sounds insane. College graduate.. Who cares.
Honestly he’s just doing his job, and he’s doing jt well. Seen a lot of iron clad cases get tossed out over similar statements. Crazy but happens
The murderer and her lawyer deserve each other! I wonder how many of his clients during the years he has managed to lead to the electric chair with his defense excuses?
@Vladimir Gonzalez Exactly. I don’t understand how people live in countries that employ an adversarial system and then don’t understand how it works. They call defence attorneys scummy when they are just doing their jobs. What are they supposed to do, say “yep she did it, case closed folks!” 🙄 Not how it works. If it was, everyone ever charged with anything would be in jail lol.
@Roland M well yes and no morals dictact what case you take, you don’t have to take on a case you know morally is wrong. Money is money bur morals are morals.
Thanks for using the word “murderer.”
Extreme anger problems + impulse control problems + fight with fiance= old lady had it coming? Lmao geezuz. Seriously this is so messed up on every level.
Ted Bundy had a college education!
Great point–thanks!
That’s right NBC News- make sure to show “blacks do it too- black women do it too” . Couldn’t this story JUST BE ABOUT THIS NON-BLACK WOMAN? NO- racist America- at work- always. Even the news- the “white media’ is trying to subconsciously hide this NON-BLACK, or WHITE woman – behind the “well, blacks do it too” mentality. Why drag black women into this crime? Always- same racist mentality. If this woman was the HERO of the story- would you show an- “oh, but black women do heroic acts too clip” as just a reminder? Of course not!!!
Whatever dont try and build her up, she might have a college education but a law abiding citizen I dont think so.
None of that BS that her attorney is spouting off matters – ‘she went to college and she’s about to get married’ 😂😂😂
He is kinda lightweight implicating her by giving those all those character reason… why should he have to say all of that if it were a case of mistaken identity…a comment stating that his clients whereabouts(the ABCs)at the time of the unfortunate incident can and will be corroborated to absolve her. Instead he talks about her character and legal history(LMNOPs)…skipping the ABC parts…just a POV!
I feel sorry for her fiancé.
@The Truth is only Perspective Lauren, is this you??
I’m gonna find her. Teach her a lesson
Her parents — sound like Brian Laundrie’s parents… now, as a parent, I’d imagine your 1st response is to protect your child/children — because lord knows most parents believe that their child/children are absolute angels. It’s amazing how many teachers can tell a parent that their child is a bully or absolute nightmare – and yet some parents will say — ‘not my child’… This is just ridiculous.
A lot of kids are nasty, and downright evil bullies. Parents won’t believe it but society can be the truth teller!
I’m thinking the same thing but it could be they wasn’t aware she was wanted by nypd and they live in Suffolk county and is not normal for nypd to go there so they probably didn’t
know but if they knew they are to face charges as well for aiding and abetting and harboring a fugitive from law enforcement
i agree, unlike the parents of the teens that dragged that poor old lady during a car jacking that severed and subsequently killed the old lady 🙁
Her parents should have gotten her help at a very young age. She was having issues at age two.
They do!! But I don’t know what I would do in that case. I would like to think I could do the moral thing. That said, I’ve raised my kids to be kind and caring. They are.
How could she get bail. It was a violent crime she committed deliberately. She obviously has demonstrated awareness of guilt through the actions she took to hide her identity. She is also definitely a flight risk.
NYC is wild now. The guy who smeared feces on the face of a subway rider is out. He then threw a brick through window and got out again. He also has pending hate crime charges. Good luck every body, it’s as dangerous as it was in the 70s.
@Anne M No it’s not.
Exactly nobody gets bail in nyc everyone walks free . Why did she get bail? Because she’s a white woman that’s why. Why was her picture clear as day and other crimes had the perps blurred out. I don’t support this woman I hope she gets the death penalty. There is a double standard that’s all
@Robert Nussberger You say “nobody gets bail in NYC. Everyone walks free.” You don’t know what you’re talking about. If you get arrested, the way you get out is to post bail if a judge allows it. If a Judge says no bail, you don’t get out. Different crimes have different bail amounts.
What I suggested is that there were so many aggregating circumstances with this woman that she should not have gotten bail. Going back to the scene of the crime. Clearing her social media. Hiding out at her parents’ house. She is a flight risk.
Hopefully the bail she got will keep her from running.
By the way, her picture was clear because she walked directly in front of a good HD camera.
@Ian Campbell my point is everyone walks except this woman
Manhattan DA will take this matter serious because she has not prior criminal records, not a repeat offenders and yes, she is white. If she were a repeated offender, she would probable be out on the street in 2 hours. I am not making fun of the matter,. This is just the sad fact of living in NYC nowadays.
Send her to RIKERS!!
I get parents want to protect their children, but when someone commits what is essentially a murder the family needs to support their doing the right thing, and then staying with them as they face their punishment. This is just ugly – this woman knows what she did, took action to try and evade capture and that would be an example of her guilt.
Let’s start with … How was she raised that she would do this? Most grow up to respect the elderly. 🙁
@Sharon Mickey
Could be she was raised feeling entitled.
The media is referring to her as a “socialite,” because her father has a successful cesspool company. There was a time when being a socialite really meant something, but the the Real Housewives franchise has downgraded the definition of the word.
@Sharon Mickey I agree – this child was broken by poor parenting.
It’s murder
That could be anyones mother she pushed…. :(….
Iniii. I
Her nephew is a disgrace! This womans action resulted in the death of his GRANDMOTHER. Who probably was caring for him on that very day. THAT P.O.S. KILLED YOU’RE GRANDMOTHER and all you can say is ” innocent until proven guilty?” It’s better for your grandmother if YOU JUST SHUT YOUR MOUTH 😡! SHAME ON YOU!
Problaly got some good will from her death or just too much soy.
Yeah that’s about what I expect from kids of generation-duhhh…..He sound like a simp taking the girl’s side.
Maybe granny left him a midtown Manhattan apartment.
Stop 🛑 STOP.
He is probably aware that the evidence is so damning that he does not need to add fuel to the fire. If they came out I’ll fiery and raging, people will tend to put a protective shield up. If he makes this neutral statement, prosecution will do their own. Either way, the loss of this life has repercussions. Whatever they are. More than likely he is playing it cool. Don’t add any fire to his flame or salt the wounds of these family by shameful statements against them. It’s just not kind.
So she had a fight with her fiancé and took her anger out on a senior citizen.
The fight happened after she assaulted the woman. Extreme anger issues either way.
Someone from her elementary school years said that she was a bully at school. Guess she did not grow out of it.
Now she’s gotta face the music.
So…
What’s sad these people only attack people who can’t defend themselves
The group of people who suffer most often and more horribly from the hands of others are the elderly. Not children. A FBI statistic.
Why do all these Long Island attorneys try to sound like mob bosses? They sound stupid.
… lawyer hoping on a prayer that there is no video that surfaces ..
So she just shoved some random elderly woman she didn’t even know… or did they know each other and it was personal? It’s more disturbing to me if it was just a random killing, if so she could be a serial killer
I thought it was her vocal coach; otherwise w-h-y would it matter if the old lady was a vocal coach…it wouldn’t even be mentioned. I think she was h-e-r vocal coach and she had just told her that she wasn’t a good singer and might never be. Something, whatever, that the young girl didn’t want to hear…so the young girl lost her temper and shoved the old lady to the ground and walked away…thought she’d get away with it, but she didn’t. Even if the old lady hadn’t died later…that’s “assault” right there. You or I would be in jail right now…she’s very lucky her parents are rich and back her.
I guess maybe she was walking behind the old lady and thought that she was walking too slow.
Lauren’s victim was walking toward a cab. Did Lauren want the same cab for herself? Her victim remarked about the force of Lauren’s shove from behind. How is a confrontation possible when one person’s back is to the other? Once on the ground the women saw Lauren and described her to the police. The victim gave a description not a name to the police. She did not know her murderer. There was an eyewitness as well. Lauren is a murderer and a cesspool heiress. Hopefully her daddy’s cesspool empire money won’t be able to buy off a judge or jury like it bought a sleazy lawyer.
@Calvin Smyth that’s far more disturbing…, a random attack on an elderly woman. There could be other victims out there
They didn’t know each other.
Yeah, and she bakes pies on the weekends. Shmuck.
was this random? she just felt like shoving an old lady minding her own business?
I’d guess she mistook the old lady for someone she knew. Otherwise it’s completely senseless but psychopaths will psychopath.
Her lawyer’s statement sounds like an excuse to me. she has a college education and no trouble with the law. Ted Bundy also had a college education.
He was HIRED and gets PAID to say good things about her.
👏👍😁, he’s gotta say it guess that’s what makes him a “good” lawyer.
Criminal law is the ugliest type of law practice. Always strange people
Same with our corrupt politicians.
Hes just doing his job. Its evil, but its a necessary evil.
You can’t just throw people in jail, even when their guilt is plain and obvious. Good luck to her trying to find a job or make friends after this crime. (Sarcasm)
We don’t need video to prove anything. There was an eyewitness and other videos corroborate. The defense attorney’s implication that two identically dressed women of the same height and build were on the same block at the moment of the crime, but only one of them was photographed, is ludicrous. My guess is that she was having an adult tantrum and took it out on the first person who got in her way.
This is a memorable example of how removed wealthy people can be from reality.
She’s not wealthy just a wannabe.
@blue- T That lawyer ain’t for a wannabe wealthy , that family of hers is well put
Problem is eyewitness testimony is often flawed. It’s responsible for a lot of wrongful convictions which are later discovered to be wrongful when DNA and other scientific evidence proves otherwise. Not saying that’s the case here but “eyewitness testimony” has never been that solid of evidence. Now if there’s actual video of her doing the assault, that’s another story but it seems unclear whether they have that or not.
Also *everyone* charged with a crime is innocent until *proven* guilty. So yes, it *does* need to be proved.
And lawyers wonder WHY we call them greasy!!!!
These parents remind everyone of the dirty laundries.
One word to her fiancee. Run!!!
No wedding for her. They’d better give her the sentence she deserves. She’s probably beaten her fiance.
Thank you! No one talks about when men are the victims of domestic abuse. Wish we could see the footage of the “altercation” with her fiancé just before she killed the older woman.
It doesn’t matter whether educated or well off person, if a person has a mental issue then that’s worst problem
Oh, she’s such a model citizen! She killed a woman! And that reporter is Ra-hay-ma, not Ra-hee-ma. Where have you been? You dolt!
A college education!!!! What the heck does that mean? She is a demon. That lawyer is as low as she is.
Delete that Stoopid lawyer delete him
Bail in a homicide case, really?
Liberal laws benefit criminals.
It’s manslaughter.
Oh, you haven’t heard? The American legal system is ruled by money. The more money you have, the better you’re treated.
She was just doing cover her tracks. Nothing strange going on here, keep walking.
“A LAW ABIDING CITIZEN” MY MF @$$*
Slave to money. Sick at heart. Selfishness over doing the right thing.
Resulting in anger issues.
Seriously!!!!!
Why is The Grandson So Nice To The Killer He’s Not Mad At Grandma Being Killed.
Perhaps he is a beneficiary of her Will.
@Calvin Smyth Not a nice statement.
she is a clear flight risk. she was in hiding, aided by her parents. all 3 of them should be in jail without bail. her lawyer is a classic lowlife POS, grasping at straws. watch: she will flee the country.
nothing to see here. just a rich person getting away with murder.
Her behaviour after the horrible act indicates guilt… I bet the lawyer pleads her guilty by reason of insanity 🙄
Education doesn’t fix stupid….
Lock her and her lawyer up
Oh ok so one day when you ( your kid or your mother) are mistakenly arrested, the police, the D.A. and the judge will ship you off to Siberia no questions asked.
@Julie B Who said it was a matter of mistaken identity? Other news services have more info. on the case.
@Calvin Smyth I commented on the guy who said we should lock her defense lawyer up with her. American Citizens mocking defense attorneys: not good.
AAAYYYYYYY – badda bing badda boom bing bing they got the wench. June wedding still on???
(Thought I was the only one thinking of The Sopranos!)
“Got a college education, got a job, engaged, never got in trouble…” and those exempts her from committing the crime? DUMB-DUMB!
But she did get into a fight with her fiance right before, and fellow tenants from her building say she was a problematic person. Doesn’t sounds like she had no problems, wonder why she lashed out @ this elderly woman?
Wait, wait! You forgot my favorite: “she has a BEAUTIFUL family.” Apparently, if you and your kin are pretty, that argues you’re unlikely to have committed a crime.
She just happened to cross the street and hit an 87 year old woman as hard as she could. She is a real piece of work. She sounds innocent.
SHE KILLED AN ELDERLY WOMAN YOU FOOL! LISTEN TO ALL SHE DID “AFTER” THIS. ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE SCUM OF THE EARTH!!!
Her parents and her lawyer will try to get her off so she can wash, rinse, and repeat. Most defense lawyers are nothing but sleazeball sociopaths.
scary lady scarier lawyer
Everything she did after the attack (fleeing, stashing her phone at her aunt’s house) show she was fleeing from what she’d done. I pray her fiance gets out now.
I can’t see her getting married in the future, she’ll be in prison. She’s obviously nuts!
Psychopath
Unfortunately NYC 🗽 Is Literally Gotham City
Is the family is racist. Was the victim Jewish? I know, I’m placing probable cause without any facts indicating such.
This is what happens when you let psychos watch YOU on Netflix. 🤷🏻♂️
We heard everything leading to she’s white.. she didn’t do it…. Prayers for the family
*Jewish*
Don’t we have a wonderful legal system? If you’re rich or your parents have money then you get out of jail, if you don’t have access to money then you have to stay in jail. Sounds pretty fair to me 😂😂😂
Funny how some cut her slack because she’s not a so- called minority- ( she is italian descent)college educated ,blah,blah. But guess what? she comitted a serious crime, why? she didn’t even try to help woman,left her there. Pazienza a real menace to society. Her and family acted like gangsters.
It’s funny how her lawyer never said she is innocent.
WTF is wrong with such people?
Throw her in jail
Wow don’t know what to say no real reason just heartbreaking my deepest condolences to the family
I’m 74 and want to know why?
She has,a full life so nit mentally ill.
FORMER FIANCE .
Same day death penalty.
Lets disrupt her wedding …in jail
She shouldn’t have even gotten a bail
Law abiding until she pushed an old lady.
Psychopath
Yes she had been in trouble in her life Mr. Lawyer. She was. Big known Bully throughout her school years. Such bully that the school have to keep on transferring her from one school to another. Mom and Dad supported her behavior from the beginning and still doing so till today. Im not surprise, they created a monster who took someone’s life.
Let me guess? Wealthy Jewish girl?
Isn’t her last name Italian?
Her attorney: She’s an upstanding citizen who killed a very elderly lady….but there’s no proof.
She needs to do more than 5 years in prison that’s bs just because you got money and have your stuff together but just made a mistake ohh well . No mercy on her just like she had no mercy on that old lady
Should be up to 25 years for manslaughter but there may be other charges.
Wtf does ‘education’ have to do with morality?
THAAAAAAANK YOUUUUUUU!
Man, attorneys are willing to defend absolutely anything and any guilty person for money. What a disgraceful profession.
Result of the profit motive in law. It’s not about justice. It’s about how money can be made. Law in the US is just another business.
Basically she retaliated against someone vulnerable reacting to the altercation she had with her boyfriend
She knows she’s guilty, she’s deleting everything & hiding …
I’m so sick of these scummy attorneys that defend criminals for the Money
An eye for an eye.
Luckily she didn’t wear mask when she appeared on surveillance video otherwise authority wouldn’t be able recognize her and she wouldn’t surrender herself.
What a witch. RIP to the beautiful voice teacher🕊
Her family, atty & her fiance know shame on all of them.
Someone is engaged to that maniac?!
It’s sad that wicked people exists in the world committing form of violences and killing people. Recently, a murder occurred in the Dollar General on Girard Avenue Philadelphia where a heinous person senselessly murdered a kind and loving 36-year-old man by shooting him execution-style to the head. It is said that the vicious 1st degree murderer is to not be charged at the moment. Unfortunately, there are people who commits extremely evil murder and gets away scot-free.
Have you been living under a rock all your life? America was founded on genocide and slavery and you’re now talking about wicked people in this world??
@David Chill, there are so many people that are talking and wondering about wicked people that exists in the world currently not just me. One person on Inside Edition made a comment with 4,700+ likes saying “It’s scary that people like this exist in the world.”
Monstrous
Law abiding, affluent, privileged citizen who can afford an extremely high priced defense attorney, except for allegedly assaulting a 87 year old woman because she could, resulting in that woman’s unnecessary death. Yeah.
She and her mom have the same hair cut. How cute.
Would this woman push her mom that way? I doubt it! Lock her up
So what if she’s a college student and has a beautiful family. All it means to me is she was spoiled. She got everything she wanted and a bad case of affluenza.
None of the crap her lawyer mentioned about her matters one bit. Educated, soon to be married people can be horrible too 🤦🏽♀️
Unfortunately money talks and criminals with money walk with the injustice system we have in place. If she had a half a mil to post bail, i wont be surprised if she gets off scott free.
😤 So was “TED Bundy!”.. what’s her lawyers point?!🤨
The level of what college degree she holds has no bearing on the crime committed at hand!!😡
“Privileged Evil!”..at its best!!
Excuses ,,what has to do a professional and cult persona kills a inocente person,
Criminal it’s criminal justice has to do the justice.
“She’s a law-abiding citizen”… Thanks, attorney, for the humor in the midst of this horror.
Notice how the white media is handling this pasty simpleton! They have yet to call her a murderer. America is the most corrupt and unjust nation on the planet.
Well, the lady has a cane. She could take her in an altercation.
She is CANCELLED!!! She KILLED AN INNOCENT ELDERLY LADY WHO COULD HAVE BEEN MY MOM OR GRANDMA!!???? Only vile ugly evil people hurt kids and the elderly and she will be dealt with. I’ll make sure of it
I hope they’re keeping her passport her family’s very very wealthy
Glad they caught her. Cameras are everywhere!!
She should’ve pushed her fiancé instead