Where Is Angela Delvecchio Aka Bernadette Protti Today? Actress Kellie Martin Played The Character Of the Murderer

Where Is Angela Delvecchio Aka Bernadette Protti Today? Her classmate Bernadette Protti murdered Kirsten Costas in 1984, a cheerleader and multi-talented popular adolescent from Miramonte High School in California. Bernadette was furious and resentful that she was passed over for cheerleading or the yearbook committee in addition to being envious of Kirsten’s well-known life.

Protti lured Costas away from her home on the day of the incident by telling a story about a party. Protti followed Kirsten home and attacked her when she stepped out of the car thinking something was wrong.

But the story folds into several other dimensions later. Read further to find out.

Where Is Angela Delvecchio Today? Delvecchio Is Also Known As Bernadette Protti

Angela Delvecchio currently lives a married life with her husband and child in Portland, Oregon. She is still remembered for her heinous crime- murdering a young girl named Kirsten Marina Costas in 1984.

After the terrible event, Protti legally changed her name and shifted to another place to start a new family. She was sentenced to nine years in prison before she began her independent life but was released on parole after seven years.

Where Is Angela Delvecchio Aka Bernadette Protti Today? Actress Kellie Martin Played The Character Of the Murderer
The picture of Bernadette Protti (bottom) and Kirsten Costas (top) ( Source : Reddit )

Back then, Sheriff’s deputies were looking for the girl who stabbed Kirsten Costas, a well-liked and attractive cheerleader, when she was found dead. Rumors were circulating in different places the day after the murder in June 1984.

Some people even suggested that it was a murder motivated by Satanism or caused by PCP. However, nobody thought that the murderer was a native Northern Californian living in a suburb of Orinda.

Actress Kelly Martin Played The Character Of Murderer; Why Did She Kill Her Classmate, Kirsten Costas?

American high school student Kirsten Marina Costas (July 23, 1968- June 23, 1984) was killed by Bernadette Protti in June 1984. She was born in a wealthy house to her parents, Arthur and Berit Costas, and she had a brother named Peter, who grew up in the unassuming Californian suburb of Orinda.

Costas attended Miramonte High School, where she participated in cheerleading and on the varsity swim team. On June 23, 1984, Costas was tricked into attending a dinner for the school’s sorority-like Bob-o-Links by a fake invitation.

Protti later testified that she had intended to bring Costas to the party to make friends with her, but she changed her mind after learning that there would be no dinner provided for the new “Bobbies.”

The girls fought, and Costas ran away, telling Alex and Mary Jane Arnold that her friend had become “weird.” Costas could not reach her parents on the foundation, so Alex Arnold drove her home while watching the Protti family’s Pinto. Arnold witnessed Protti’s assault on Costas while sitting in his car at the Costas’ residence.

Why Did Angela Change Her Name To Jeannette Butler? Who Is Her Husband?

Protti was given a maximum nine-year sentence, but at 23, she was released on parole after seven years. Costas’ parents fiercely opposed the release of Protti,

When Angela was released from prison in 1992, she was 23 years old. Following her release, Bernadette legally changed her name to Jeannette Butler. Afterward, she relocated to Oklahoma and started working as a nurse.

The picture of Bernadette Protti, after she changed her name to Jeannette Tomanka
The picture of Bernadette Protti, after she changed her name to Jeannette Tomanka ( Source : Katchingkillers )

Later after getting married, she changed her name to Jeanette Tomanka. While the first name of Angela’s husband is not shared, he is a Tomanka and serves as a marketing product manager.