The husband of a city schoolteacher mysteriously found dead inside their Staten Island home this summer was arrested this morning for murder, The Post has learned.
Jonathan Crupi was collared at his mother’s home where he had been staying since the July 5 slaying of Simeonette Mapes-Crupi, law enforcement sources said.
“We kinda felt along that it was him, this just proves our thoughts and our suspicions,” said the victim’s older brother, John Mapes, 32.
"We’re all happy and saddened at the same time that somebody was arrested.”
Mapes-Crupi, 29, was discovered in the couple’s ransacked condo on Forest Hill Road, near La Tourette Golf Course in New Springville, in a bloody scene that appeared to be a home invasion gone horribly wrong. However, investigators have believed all along that the death was staged, sources said.
Crupi told detectives that he left home that morning to run an errand and returned around 1:50 p.m. to find his lifeless wife face-down in a pool of blood in the foyer, sources previously told The Post.
She was stabbed 15 times and there were no signs of forced entry, sources have said. Those same sources have noted that neighbors never reported seeing any suspicious characters near the home prior to the attack.
The couple taught at The School for Classics: An Academy of Thinkers, Writers and Performers, opposite the gritty Cypress Hills Houses in East New York, Brooklyn.
Mapes-Crupi, a social-studies instructor, had been with the Department of Education since 2006.
Her husband teaches English.
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Crupi told detectives that he left home that morning to run an errand and returned around 1:50 p.m. to find his lifeless wife face-down in a pool of blood in the foyer, sources previously told The Post.
She was stabbed 15 times and there were no signs of forced entry, sources have said. Those same sources have noted that neighbors never reported seeing any suspicious characters near the home prior to the attack.
The couple taught at The School for Classics: An Academy of Thinkers, Writers and Performers, opposite the gritty Cypress Hills Houses in East New York, Brooklyn.
Mapes-Crupi, a social-studies instructor, had been with the Department of Education since 2006.
Her husband teaches English.
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Privateinvesigations - Simeonette Mapes-Crupi stabbed dead on Staten Island
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