“If you ever cheat on me, I will throw you down the hole where I threw my wife.”
This is in the sworn statement, given by Debra Wheelis of Henryville to the Monroe County District Attorney’s Office in September, about what Wheelis said boyfriend Andrew Cesar Cerritelli told her regarding Susan Marie Rath-Cerritelli, his wife who disappeared 33 years ago.
“He said he told her, ‘You cheat on me and I will kill you,’” Wheelis told the District Attorney’s Office. “I guess she cheated on him, you know, with some big wig guy, got money. He said he got a hold of her, took her for a drive and she never came back.”
Andrew Cerritelli died from a drug overdose in February 2007 while living with Wheelis, her two daughters and his father in Pocono Township, according to information compiled by First Assistant District Attorney Michael Mancuso. At the time, state police had just begun investigating Susan Cerritelli’s 24-year disappearance as a murder, with Andrew Cerritelli as the prime suspect, though police had no physical evidence or admission from him that she had been killed.
