At last second, pizzeria owner admits executing business partner boyfriend with revolver and hiding body in her bedroom for weeks

Giovanni Gallina, Anna Tolomello

Giovanni Gallina (left) in an obituary photo, Anna Maria Tolomello (right) after pleading guilty (WCAU/screengrab)

The Pennsylvania pizzeria owner accused more than two years ago of shooting her business partner and boyfriend once in the head with a Smith & Wesson .38 Special “LadySmith” revolver, killing him, pleaded guilty to murder just before her trial was set to begin on Monday.

Anna Maria Tolomello, now 50, was recognized in Bucks County as the owner and operator of Pina’s Pizza in Chalfont along with 65-year-old Giovanni Gallina, sometimes described as her “paramour” and common-law husband.

According to the criminal complaint in her case, Tolomello did not dispute shooting Gallina after authorities came to arrest her, but she did claim she shot the man in self-defense. That story is now off the table, as Tolomello has pleaded guilty to third-degree murder, abuse of a corpse, and for tampering with evidence, the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office announced.

Third-degree murder is a charge that only exists in only three states, and Pennsylvania is one of them. It covers “[a]ll other kinds of murder” that do not rise to the level of first- or second-degree murder.

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