Suspended Accused Sex Scandal Teacher is Shot to Death
Source – The suspended Pennsylvania school teacher who died on her mother’s driveway after being struck by a barrage of bullets Sunday knew her killer and was murdered in “a crime of passion,” investigators said Tuesday.
Rachael DelTondo, 33, was gunned down on Mother’s Day outside her family’s Aliquippa home after returning from the ice cream shop with a friend. DelTondo — who was suspended from her teaching position at Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School after being caught with an underage student in a steamed-up car — was struck at least 10 times. Neighbors said they heard up to 12 shots fired that night.
“We could not be taking this more seriously. We had a young woman, 33 years old, shot to death on the driveway of her mother’s house on Mother’s Day evening,” Beaver County District Attorney David Lozier told KDKA.
Investigators said they believe DelTondo knew the shooter and evidence showed her murder was “a crime of passion,” the report stated. …
The former elementary school teacher was placed on paid suspension in October 2017 … In the police report filed in February 2016, officers said they found DelTondo and the teenage boy in a steamed-up parked car around 2 a.m., the Pittsburgh Gazette reported. The boy was reclined in the passenger seat. …
DelTondo told officers the boy had called her because “he was upset and needed someone to talk to.” She insisted the two were friends and that she didn’t want her fiancé to know about the meeting. No charges were filed in the incident. The incident wasn’t reported to the school, but became public when the police report and other documents marked “for official use only” were leaked to the school and media outlets. …
DelTondo’s engagement ended around the time of her suspension and her wedding to a prominent local businessman was scrapped.
I’ve gotten this story sent to me a couple of dozen times in the past few days. And I get the impression some people want me to do a regular Sex Scandal Teacher post about it. But no. No. No. A billion times, no. Sweet motorboating Moses, no. I might write satirical blogs mocking women who sleep with high school students, but I’m a human being. The only reason I’m posting this at all is because it’s newsworthy. A grim, tragic reminder of what people are capable of and the need for us to find some kind of way to prevent these senseless “crimes of passion.”
Trite as it might sound, to me it all begins and ends with the one pulling the trigger. While the Beaver County DA hasn’t named a suspect, someone reading at a first grade level could peruse this report and figure out who their prime Person of Interest is. Assuming it is who we think it is, let this be a cautionary tale for all guys who think they’ve been done dirty by their S.O. cheating on them. Especially in a way that goes public. You’ve got to move on with your life, hard as that may sound. You can’t let your life turn into a show on Investigation: Discovery. You can’t obsess, turn to violence or, God forbid, pick up a gun. The fact this killer fired 12 shots means he took the time to reload, which is the true nihilist’s way of sending a message that this was done in the coldest blood possible. And let’s pray he’s taken into custody soon before he proves what he’s capable of again.
So all I have is that. Plus condolences to Rachael DelTondo’s loved ones and prayers for the repose of her soul. But anything else will have to wait until there’s no atrocity involved. Not sorry.