SCHOOL TEACHER STABBED TO DEATH IN HER HOME 15 TIMES FOUND BY HUSBAND WHO IS NOW UNDER ARREST FOR THE MURDER

Simeonette Mapes-Crupi and husband Jonathan Crupi

The husband of a city schoolteacher mysteriously found dead inside their New Springville home this summer was arrested this morning for murder.
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.
Mapes-Crupi, 29, was discovered in the couple’s ransacked condo on Forest Hill Road, near La Tourette Golf Course, 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.

 

Jonathan Crupi and Simeonette Mapes-Crupi

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.
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.