Murdered wife a drunk, accused doc's son says

The trial of Dr Joseph Roncaioli (right) gets more sordid by the day. The 72-year-old Thornhill, ON, gynecologist is accused of killing his wife after she allegedly gambled away the $5 million lottery jackpot she had won as well as her husband's savings.


The latest articles, including the Toronto Sun's "Mom boozer, son testifies" -- a personal favourite -- paint a strange picture of a woman who was a "mean and chronic drunk," according to her loving son, yet found to have a perfectly healthy liver by the autopsy.

But the most bizarre twist came when Dr Roncaioli himself took the stand last Thursday at the Newmarket courthouse. The well-respected doc who had injected his wife with a local anesthetic to treat a mysterious ailment, confessed to taking his sweet time calling 911 when he found her dead shortly after. "I thought 'my God, here I am treating my wife ... and she's dead, there goes my license,'" he said, according to the Toronto Star report.

The trial continues...

Photo: CTV Toronto

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