Brooklyn, NY: Dumped Brooklyn man held in stabbing of wife

BY Kerry Burke and Jonathan Lemire
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Friday, April 30th 2010, 4:00 AM
A Brooklyn man who allegedly killed his wife in a jealous rage was in the U.S. only because she had traveled to Panama to marry him, family members and sources said Thursday.

But when the couple split up this year and 53-year-old Maritza Jolliffe stopped supporting Eustacio Roberts and started seeing another man, Roberts couldn't take it, sources said.

They said he began stalking the victim with growing anger that exploded in violence Wednesday night.

Jolliffe, a nurse who held three jobs, was "tired of taking care" of Roberts, and that infuriated him, said Fidel Clue, 50, the victim's brother. "That ticked him off."

He said Roberts, 54, came to the Canarsie home "drunk and high" and in a fury. "He couldn't stand that a woman was getting ahead without him," Clue said.

Roberts is accused of plunging a knife into Jolliffe's chest in front of their 12-year-old son in their Brooklyn apartment. He was to be arraigned on murder charges today.

Roberts had been deported in 1991 after being convicted of weapons and drug charges, law enforcement sources said. Investigators said he may have gotten back into the U.S. with Jolliffe by using aliases.



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