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The Delisle triple murder was the April 2010 gun slaying of Gilles L. Delisle (69) and his wife Helga Harries Delisle (72) and their business partner Peter J. Weith (68), at the Delisle home on Mesilla Hills Drive outside of Mesilla, near 
Gilles Delisle was an inventor and businessman; he had received a heart transplant in 1996, from an 18-year-old girl of Artesia, New Mexico. He was well liked by many, but told friends he was in fear for his life; several of his business partners had died mysteriously.
Helga Delisle was a professor of
The Delisle triple murder was the April 2010 gun slaying of Gilles L. Delisle (69) and his wife Helga Harries Delisle (72) and their business partner Peter J. Weith (68), at the Delisle home on Mesilla Hills Drive outside of Mesilla, near Las Cruces, New Mexico
Las Cruces (; "the crosses") is the second-largest city in the U.S. state of New Mexico and the seat of Doña Ana County. As of the 2020 census the population was 111,385. Las Cruces is the largest city in both Doña Ana County and southern Ne ...
. A $10,000 reward was offered for information leading to the shooter.
Eugene Michael "Gino" Ferri (48 in 2011) was arrested a year later, shortly after police recovered the murder weapon from a bathroom at a park along the Rio Grande in Las Cruces, following information from Ricky Huckabay, an acquaintance of Ferri who had driven him to the Delisle's home on the day of the murders and to whom he had allegedly admitted the crime. Immediately after the murders, Ferri had allegedly met up with Huckabay, arriving in the deLisles' vehicle, and told Huckabay he had "fucked up", later adding that "it felt good." Police had initially identified Huckabay using telephone records and surveillance camera
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footage from a convenience store. Ferri was found guilty of the murders in May 2013 and was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences. He is currently imprisoned in the Northeast New Mexico Detention Facility.
Ferri had built the Delisle's home in 2003. He and the three he murdered had been involved in a civil dispute before the triple murder, and police had discovered the murder scene after their attorney requested a wellness check when they failed to appear at a court proceeding
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in the case. Ferri and his mother Carol Ferri owed the victims about $1.3 million. Weith's widow took over trying to recoup the debt from them after her husband was killed in what the Associated Press
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and the ''Las Cruces Sun-News
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'' called "the worst murder in Las Cruces in 20 years".
Gilles Delisle was an inventor and businessman; he had received a heart transplant in 1996, from an 18-year-old girl of Artesia, New Mexico. He was well liked by many, but told friends he was in fear for his life; several of his business partners had died mysteriously.
Helga Delisle was a professor of linguistics
Linguistics is the science, scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure ...
, former head of the Department of Linguistics at New Mexico State University
New Mexico State University (NMSU or NM State) is a public land-grant research university based primarily in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Founded in 1888, it is the oldest public institution of higher education in New Mexico and one of the state's ...
.
Peter Weith was the founder of the U.S. operation of the Hegla Glass Company in 1995.
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