Joseph Ferlazzo Jr. biography: 13 things about Northfield, New Hampshire man

Who is Joseph Ferlazzo Jr?

Joseph Ferlazzo Jr. is an American man from Northfield, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States. He was 19 years older than his wife Emily Jean Schwarz Ferlazzo, a registered nurse.

Before Joseph met Emily, he worked as a tattoo artist. He is 6’0″ tall, his registered weight is 200 pounds and he has multiple tattoos and a nose piercing.

Joseph Ferlazzo Sr., Joseph Jr.’s father, owned a massage parlor in Reading, Pennsylvania, USA. Joseph Jr.’s stepmother Young Hee Lim Ferlazzo is Korean.

Joseph Jr.’s tattoo license was revoked after he murdered Emily in Bolton, Vermont, USA. Here are 10 more things about him:

1. In May 2009, police raided his father’s massage parlor in Reading and arrested multiple women on charges of prostitution, including his stepmother Young Hee’s female relative who was the massage parlor’s manager.
2. In October 2009, his stepmother Young Hee was fatally stabbed at her home in Upper Gwynedd Township, Pennsylvania, USA and police questioned his father Joseph Ferlazzo Sr. but the case remains open.
3. In October 2020, he and Emily got married.
4. On October 16, 2021, while he and Emily were vacationing at an AirBNB property in their converted camper in Bolton for their first wedding anniversary, he shot her twice in the head using his Glock 19 pistol.
5. On October 17, 2021, he drove his camper to a friend’s property in St. Albans, Vermont where he dismembered Emily’s body using a hand saw.
6. On October 18, 2021, he returned home in Northfield and told Emily’s parents they had gotten in an argument in a parking lot.
7. On October 19, 2021, Spence Lemons called 911 to report that he had just confessed to killing Emily. On the same day, he told Vermont State Police detective sergeant James Vooris in a recorded interview that he had killed Emily inside their vehicle in Bolton. He said, “As soon as I put the vehicle in park, my wife went completely berserk… like psychotic and… I shot her.”
8. On October 20, 2021, he was arraigned on a charge of first-degree murder in a court in Burlington, Vermont and he pleaded not guilty to the charge through his attorney.
9. In December 2022, he was found civilly liable for his Emily’s death.
10. In January 2023, he was ordered to pay Emily’s family $1.5 million in a civil wrongful death lawsuit.
11. On March 22, 2024, recordings of his statements to investigators on October 20, 2021 were played during a hearing.
12. On December 9, 2024, the state of Vermont called 10 witnesses during his murder trial.
13. On December 11, 2024, he took the stand in his own defense on the fourth day of his trial after the state of Vermont rested its case.