Daniel Horowitz
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| Born | December 14, 1954 New York City, New York |
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[edit] Background
Daniel Horowitz was born in New York City. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Hampshire College. In 1980, he earned his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles, California. He was admitted to the California State Bar that same year.
Because of his successful legal practice, he was a frequent TV commentator during the Scott Peterson trial. He has appeared as a regular legal commentator on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News.
[edit] Marriage
Horowitz said he and Pamela Vitale met earlier than 1993 when Vitale worked in Hollywood as an independent movie producer after attending film school at the University of California Los Angeles. He had written a screenplay about one of his cases and was shopping it around. Mutual friends brought the two together. According to Horowitz, "she was interested in reading my script," he remembered. "But once I met her I fell completely in love and no longer cared about the script." [1]
Vitale was a single mom raising a 15-year-old daughter and an 18-year-old son. The two began dating long distance. They were married in 1994 on a rainy day in November. [2] Vitale moved to the Bay Area with her daughter, Marisa, and took a job working for Pacific Bell. She eventually became an executive at Informix. When the company was sold, Vitale took her severance pay and began working in Horowitz's law firm maintaining databases.
[edit] Wife's murder
On October 15, 2005 he found his wife dead at the mobile home where the couple was living while their house was being built nearby. At the time, Horowitz was defending Susan Polk in her murder trial.[3] Vitale and Horowitz had been married nearly 11 years and were building their dream home for the past two years in Lafayette in Contra Costa County, California. Medical examiners have concluded that Vitale died from blunt trauma to the head. When contacted via cell phone by a Bay Area newspaper, Horowitz said, "I can't talk, I can't. It's beyond words." [4]
On October 20, 2005 police arrested a 16-year-old boy from Lafayette, California, Scott Dyleski, in connection to the crime.
Dyleski was convicted of killing Pamela Vitale on August 28, 2006. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on 26 September 2006. [5]
[edit] References
- ^ "I just wanted to grow old with her" Famed lawyer talks of his wife, who was killed at site of their dream home - San Francisco Chronicle, 10/17/05
- ^ Vitale missed by MB friends - Manhattan Beach News, 2005
- ^ Court TV host Catherine Crier (February 20, 2007). Final Analysis: The Untold Story of the Susan Polk Murder Trial. ISBN 006113452X.
- ^ Wife of attorney found dead: Homicide feared - San Francisco Chronicle, 10/16/05
- ^ Teen Gets Life Without Parole for Vitale Slaying - MSNBC.com, 9.26.2006
