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Husband Who Set Wife on Fire with Blowtorch Gets 35 Years in Jail

January 14, 2016

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Posted by: Lisa Mitchell

A Manhattan judge tossed a jealous husband in prison for 35 years to life for dousing his estranged wife in lighter fluid and setting her on fire with a blowtorch then trying to do the same to his ex-boss.

 

Justice Gregory Carro stopped short of giving Carlos Diaz, 38, the maximum of 50 to life requested by prosecutors who called his crime “brutal” and “cold-blooded.”

 

Diaz was convicted by a jury in December of eight counts of attempted murder, assault, attempted assault and attempted arson for the horrific Jan. 16, 2013 attack on Cathy Zappata and Gerson Marchena.

 

The defense argued for the minimum citing Diaz’s serious psychiatric issues.

 

Diaz, wearing a white T-shirt and beige khakis, offered a feeble apology: “I regret what happened. And my heart is broken. I am not that [person].”

 

The lurid crime unfolded after Diaz asked Zappata, 40, with whom he shares a son, for a ride to pick up his truck at an Inwood parking lot.

 

Once there, the psycho grabbed accelerant and a blowtorch from his truck and lit her on fire.

 

“I got out of my car and ran and I threw myself on the floor,” she testified during the trial in Manhattan Supreme Court. “Someone came to assist me and threw water on me. My body was shaking — I couldn’t do anything. I felt cold.”

 

Diaz took off and headed to a nearby 10th Avenue auto repair shop where he’d recently been fired. He doused ex-boss Marchena in gasoline but the man was able to escape before Diaz could ignite him.

 

Zappata suffered 2nd degree burns all over her body and was hospitalized for eight days.

 

“Carlos Diaz planned and executed a vicious attack that was not only designed to kill his victims, but to torture them while doing so,” said Manhattan DA Cy Vance in a statement. “Were it not for heroic bystanders, skilled doctors, and the sheer strength of this survivor, this devastating act of domestic violence could have turned fatal.”

 

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