70-year-old Renee Dipietro who stabbed a man to death with a hidden sword in her cane was found guilty and sentenced to 20 to 40 years in prison. The murder of Michael Sides happened outside a bar in Ardmore last summer. Police say Dipietro went to said bar seeking retribution after her son was involved in a fight.
A 70-year-old Philadelphia woman has been sentenced to decades in prison for the death of a 31-year-old man who was stabbed to death by a knife that had been concealed in a cane.
Renee DiPietro, 70, was sentenced to 20 to 40 years by a judge, which is the maximum sentence for third-degree murder, on Monday, April 15.
DiPietro, of Philadelphia, was found guilty in February of fatally stabbing Michael Sides on June 10, 2023 outside of a bar in Ardmore.
Get Philly local news, weather forecasts, sports and entertainment stories to your inbox. Sign up for NBC Philadelphia newsletters.
According to prosecutors DiPietro went to the bar seeking retribution after her son was involved in a fight.
At the time of the offense investigators said that Sides was killed after confronting DiPietro's son following an earlier physical altercation.
The Montgomery County District Attorney's Office said that Sides followed DiPietro's son after an incident at an Admore bar that allegedly involved DiPietro's son and a friend of Sides'.
Local
Breaking news and the stories that matter to your neighborhood.
As DiPietro's son attempted to enter a vehicle that was occupied by DiPietro's mother and father officers said Sides confronted the man.
At that time, investigators claim, Sides engaged in a physical altercation with DiPietro's son and DiPietro intervened, pulling a 16-inch blade that, officials believe, she had hidden in a cane.
The Montgomery County District Attorney's Office claimed that surveillance video taken from that evening shows DiPietro stabbing Sides, causing him to fall before she stabbed him again while he lay on the ground.
Sign up for our Breaking newsletter to get the most urgent news stories in your inbox.
