By Molly Moorhead, Times Staff Writer
Friday, December 10, 2010
NEW PORT RICHEY — Cory Patnode and John Berry were standing outside their neo-Nazi clubhouse one night in March 2006 when a next door neighbor burst out of her house, screaming and running into the street. Seconds later, a man in a gas mask followed her out, jumped the fence between the two houses and disappeared into the neo-Nazi compound.
Patnode and Berry, officers in the white supremacist group, followed inside and encountered John Ditullio, a 19-year-old recruit who had been living there for a few months.
"I killed them both, stabbed them in the head," Patnode remembered Ditullio saying.
Berry recalled similar words.
Both men testified Friday in Ditullio's trial. He is charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder in the 2006 stabbing on Teak Street in New Port Richey. Patricia Wells, the next door neighbor, was injured, and ...