Thread: Yet again, another woman and kids dead. Ex husband sought

MARIANNA, Pa. -- A mother and her two children were suffocated in their Marianna, Washington County home, and state police want to talk to the woman's estranged husband about it.

State police said the bodies of Ashley Guarino, 22, and her children, Dreux, 2, and 11-month-old Orlando, were found in a home on Third Street Wednesday night.

The mother's body was found on the first floor and the children were found upstairs, according to officials.

Police want to question Guarino’s estranged husband, Orlando Maurice Guarino, who they are calling a person of interest but not a suspect. Guarino was last seen driving a white GMC pickup truck with license plate YWP 9155.

State police surrounded a motel in Eighty Four where the vehicle may have been spotted Thursday morning, but they were unable to find Guarino there.

Police said it's too soon in the investigation to determine a motive.

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oh how sad my thoughts and prayers go out to their family

MARIANNA, Pa. — State police arrested a man suspected of killing his wife and two young children in their rural western Pennsylvania home.

Trooper Robin Mungo said a daylong manhunt came to an end Thursday afternoon when police took 38-year-old Orlando Maurice Guarino into custody. She says he is suspected of killing his 22-year-old wife, Ashley Guarino, and their children, 2-year-old Dreux and 11-month-old Orlando Jr.

Their bodies were found early Thursday in their home in the town of Marianna. The Washington County coroner has ruled the deaths homicides. He says it appears they were asphyxiated.

Mungo says Guarino is being questioned and charges will be filed later Thursday.

Orlando and Ashley Guarino had separated recently, authorities said.

Court documents showed the couple traded abuse allegations last month that resulted in a protection-from-abuse order against Orlando Guarino. Among her allegations, Ashley Guarino claimed her husband had held the boy out the window of a moving vehicle.

State police late Thursday morning surrounded a hotel in nearby Eighty-Four, Pa., as they searched for Orlando Guarino. Trooper Robin Mungo said police had credible information that he was at the hotel, but the search turned up empty.

Orlando Guarino was unemployed and his wife was a waitress at the Moose Lodge in nearby Washington, Pa., according to court documents. Danielle Ehrhardt, a neighbor who baby-sat for the couple's children, said Orlando Guarino did make some money cutting grass.

"Anytime they talked to us, they were really happy," said Ehrhardt, 18. The husband "was always real pleasant, especially with his kids." But she said the couple had recently been in a dispute involving the care of the children, 2-year-old Dreux and 11-month-old Orlando Jr.

Ehrhardt remembered Orlando Jr. was just learning how to walk and loved to play with cell phones, while Dreux needed to watch cartoons on TV to help her fall asleep.

Authorities had left the crime scene in Marianna, about 30 miles south of Pittsburgh, by midmorning Thursday. Traffic alert signs on nearby Interstate 79 were flashing the license plate number and description of the white GMC pickup truck that police believe Guarino was driving.

Ashley Guarino got the temporary protection order against Orlando on June 19, a day after the couple argued and Guarino allegedly threatened to kill her and the children.

Her court filing claimed that she and her husband were in a moving vehicle when Orlando Guarino held a car seat — with his son in it — out a window and said, "You wanna see something crazy?"

She also claimed her husband had carried the baby into the house on his hip with a butcher knife in the other hand. He also once drove her to a truck in the woods and said he wanted her to watch as he killed himself, she claimed.

Orlando Guarino's request for a protective order against his wife was denied. He had filed papers claiming she and her father threatened to shoot him.

Ashley Guarino and the children moved out of the house after the discord, but recently returned, Ehrhardt said.

Orlando Guarino has a criminal record.

In 2006, he was charged with aggravated assault and related counts, which were all dismissed or withdrawn, according to court records. He was charged in several cases in 1994 and another in 1997. Those cases, which included aggravated assault, weapons and drug counts, resulted in a prison sentence of two to four years, according to court records.


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