When Utica police Investigator Joseph Longo Jr. left a divorce proceeding Monday, he didn’t appear to be angry about what was going on, his attorney, Devin Garramone, said Wednesday.

Grief stricken.

Grief stricken.

Likewise, his wife, Kristin Longo, seemed satisfied with how the day’s proceeding had ended, according to her attorney, George Massoud.

But in the few hours that followed, something went terribly wrong.

While Longo Jr.’s reasons for stabbing his wife more than a dozen times later that afternoon inside their Deerfield home will forever remain left to speculation, his attorney offered what he believed might have pushed

Longo JR.

Longo JR.

the 13-year police veteran over the edge.

“He was still in love with her, and I think that he would have been happier to reconcile with her than get a divorce, but then it finally dawned on him that he was losing his wife,” said Garramone.

“The prospect of losing her,, and her meeting somebody else and starting a new life, it freaked him out,” Garramone added. “Like any typical break-up, there was a period of reckoning, and I think that’s where he was it. It was a real critical point, and he just went overboard.”

After 41-year-old Longo Jr. repeatedly stabbed his wife shortly before 4 p.m. Monday, he then stabbed himself about 20 times and slashed at his throat, police said. Once Kristin Longo died, Longo Jr. was alive long enough to be discovered by their 8-year-old son and to admit to the stabbings.

Although Kristin Longo, 39, did fear for her safety as her husband’s emotional stability spiraled downward in the weeks leading up to the murder-suicide, she appeared to believe everything would be OK after Monday’s appearance in state Supreme Court, Massoud said.

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