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Funerals today for Toronto couple slain in Florida home last week

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Funerals will be held today in Toronto for a popular former day camp director and her husband, who were killed in Florida last week.

An announcement from Benjamin’s Park Memorial Chapel says the services for Rochelle Wise and David Pichosky will be held this afternoon.

Wise, 66, and Pichosky, 71, were found dead Thursday evening inside their home in Hallandale Beach, Fla.

Police said Friday they were killed in a double homicide.

The cause of their deaths and motive are still under investigation and remain clouded in mystery.

Wise was the director of Crestwood Valley Day Camp in Toronto from 1990 to 2005 and was a preschool vice-principal at Bialik Hebrew Day School.

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Google StreetviewPolice are investigating the deaths of David Pichosky, 71, and Rochelle Wise, 66, as a double homicide.

The Miami Herald reported the couple is from Toronto and police say they spend winters in Hallandale Beach.

“Rochelle dedicated herself to the personal growth and development of every child and staff member in her care, and to creating summer memories that would last a lifetime,” said Eric Shendelman and Bobby Freeman, Directors of Crestwood Valley Day Camp in a statement released Friday.

Sonia Shron, Bialik’s executive director, says the news has hit the school community very hard.

Capt. Sonia Quinones of the Hallandale Beach Police Department says a neighbour found the couple after they didn’t show up for a planned lunch.

The neighbour used a spare key to check on the couple and found their bodies after 6 p.m. on Thursday.

“I’m very afraid,” France Chouinard, a different neighbour, told Postmedia News by phone on Friday morning.

Chouinard said she last saw Pichosky – who she knew as “Donny” — on Wednesday morning when he returned from grocery shopping at the local Publix store. He was dressed in shorts, a golf shirt and a baseball hat, she said.

Around supper time Thursday, she learned of the deaths when police knocked on her door.

“Don’t’ go out there. Stay in the house,” she said police told her.
“My god. I’m very afraid. Very crazy,” she said.

The friendly couple usually returned to Canada around April, Chouinard said. A daughter, who lives in New York, had just recently visited the couple, she said.
With files from Postmedia News and Kristopher Morrison, National Post



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