Killer of Suzette Snider's Brother Sentenced to Life

This article was posted by Joseph Pinciaro. It was written and reported by Edward Robinson.

A Dix Hills man who was convicted of murdering the brother of Suzette Snider – the spouse of rock star Dee Snider – will spend the rest of his life in jail.

Christian Tarantino, 46, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Central Islip on Wednesday for his role in the murders of three men between 1994 and 2003. 

Following jury trials in 2011 and 2012, Tarantino was convicted of participating in an armored car robbery in June 1994 during which a 47-year-old guard was shot and killed; orchestrating the August 1994 murder of an associate in that robbery, whose body Tarantino dumped from a boat several miles off the coast of Long Island; and, conspiring to murder Vincent Gargiulo – Suzette Snider's brother and a long-time confidant of Tarantino – who had threatened to take evidence of the first two murders to the FBI.

Snider, according to Newsday, told a U.S. District Court judge, "Vinnie loved Chris; Vinnie thought Chris was his brother."

“For almost a decade, Christian Tarantino was a one man crime spree, engagingin armed robbery, murder and murder conspiracy to cover his tracks,” United States Attorney Loretta Lynch said in a press release. “He controlled his confederates the old-fashioned way - by murdering them. As this investigation and prosecution demonstrate, law enforcement will never halt its efforts to ensure that murderers are brought to justice. Tarantino thought that human life was his to take. He will now spend the rest of his life contemplating the just results of his actions.”