The Nation - News from May 30, 1989

A young man described by neighbors as a Yale graduate frustrated by unemployment stabbed his mother and three other people to death at his Springfield, N.J., home. Rolando Marcello, 23, was arrested by state police after a high speed chase that ended when the suspect left his car and jumped off a 40-foot bridge, said Union County Prosecutor John H. Stamler. Two of the victims were Marcello’s mother, Anita Marcello, 51, and his brother Raymond, 20, Stamler said. Nelson Paiva, 20, a family friend from neighboring Union, and Mark Dennis, 36, a neighbor who attempted to stop Paiva’s slaying, were also killed. All four died of multiple stab wounds. Neighbors said Marcello had been depressed recently because after graduating from Yale University with a business degree, illness kept him from working in an internship in a New York bank.