In a tragic sequence of events that unfolded in May of 2016, a man from Poughkeepsie, New York, was found deceased in what authorities would later describe as a murder-suicide that spanned two different cities. The body of 39-year-old Pawel Pawliszyn was discovered in his mother's Poughkeepsie home on May 14, 2016. He had sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The investigation into Pawel's death quickly connected to a grim discovery made around the same time in Staten Island.
There, in the basement of her home, his estranged wife, Iwona Pawliszyn, was found dead with a severe cut to her neck. Investigators pieced together a timeline that suggested a deeply troubled and deteriorating relationship between the former couple, who had separated in late 2014. The evidence gathered from both locations led law enforcement to believe that Pawel had traveled to his ex-wife's residence, killed her, and then returned to his mother's home in Poughkeepsie where he took his own life.
The couple had three children together, who were left to grapple with the immense loss of both of their parents in this devastating event. As the primary suspect in Iwona's murder was deceased, the investigation concluded without any arrests being made. The case did not proceed to a trial, with the murder-suicide conclusion bringing a somber end to the investigation.
