As an avid Disney fan, Simeonette\u00a0Mapes-Crupi dreamed of a fairytale life.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Watch Dateline: Secrets Uncovered\u00a0Wednesdays at 8\/7c on Oxygen. Catch up on the Oxygen App<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n It looked like the New York City public school teacher may have gotten her wish when she married her charming and charismatic husband Jonathan Crupi.<\/p>\n Together, the two taught in one of Brooklyn\u2019s toughest schools, where they had a reputation for going above and beyond for the students they adored, according to Dateline: Secrets Uncovered<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI used to tell people I couldn\u2019t buy a better son-in-law,\u201d Simeonette\u2019s mom Theresa Mapes remembered in the Oct. 29 episode. \u201cThat\u2019s how good he was.\u201d<\/p>\n But the teacher who raised money to buy her students prom dresses and told them to dream big would never get the storybook ending she imagined.\u00a0<\/p>\n Instead, the 29-year-old was found stabbed to death, laying in a pool of blood in the front entryway of her Staten Island home on July 5, 2012, in a case also profiled<\/a> in Oxygen\u2019s New York Homicide.<\/a><\/p>\n Her brutal murder sent shockwaves through the community and ultimately uncovered the sinister secrets someone close to her had been keeping all along.<\/p>\n Who Was Simeonette Mapes Crupi?\u00a0<\/p>\n To Simeonette\u2019s students she was \u201cMommy Mapes,\u201d a constant source of support and encouragement, prone to belting out a Disney ballad just to keep social studies class interesting.\u00a0<\/p>\n When student Von Steven De Valle was getting bullied and thinking of dropping out, he remembered how she told him he was \u201cspecial\u201d and encouraged him to get his education, adding, \u201cYou don\u2019t want to become left behind.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Her husband Jonathan was equally beloved in the school\u2019s English department.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was funny, he would do cartoon voices,\u201d student Carmencita Majeed recalled to Dateline: Secrets Uncovered. \u201cI remember one year he dressed up as Wolverine. He was just like a little big kid.\u201d<\/p>\n What Happened to Simeonette Mapes Crupi?<\/p>\n It seemed like the pair had the perfect life\u2014until the morning of July 5, 2012. Jonathan told investigators that he left the couple\u2019s townhome that day around 7:30 a.m. and spent the morning doing errands, buying theater tickets to celebrate his upcoming anniversary, running by the school to pick up supplies to teach summer school, shopping for sneakers and getting his car inspected.<\/p>\n He told detectives he also stopped by Home Depot to buy paint for a home project, but when he couldn\u2019t get in touch with his wife, he never went inside the store and returned home to find her dead on the floor.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s blood all over,\u201d he screamed in a 911 call. \u201cOh, my God. She\u2019s in a giant puddle of blood.\u201d<\/p>\n New York City Police arrived a few minutes later to find Simeonette had been stabbed to death.<\/p>\n \u201cThe amount of stab wounds was\u2014was excessive,\u201d Detective Michael Burdick explained. \u201cI think you\u2019ve got somebody who was very angry and intent on making sure that she is in fact, dead.\u201d<\/p>\n RELATED: “Wonderful Wife” Kills North Carolina Plastic Surgeon Husband After Financial Crimes Are Exposed<\/a><\/p>\n Burdick noted the home was also in complete \u201cdisarray.\u201d Someone had dumped drawers and ransacked the home, then left the sliding glass back door ajar by a few inches. Crime scene investigators swabbed the door, collected knives they discovered in the dishwasher and collected other evidence found at the scene.<\/p>\n While speaking with local media, Simeonette\u2019s distraught mother had a chilling message for her daughter\u2019s killer.<\/p>\n \u201cI will find you. I will get you. You will pay,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s not going to bring my daughter back but she\u2019ll know that her mother will not leave any stone unturned.\u201d<\/p>\n Clues Reveal Secret Relationship<\/p>\n Investigators considered the possibility that Simeonette had been killed in a burglary gone wrong, but valuables like her jewelry, credit cards and Jonathan\u2019s expensive sneaker collection were all left behind.<\/p>\n Detectives also looked into the possibility that someone at the school may have had it out for the teacher. Simeonette and Jonathan had witnessed a drive by shooting near the school just one week before her death, but Simeonette never reported seeing anything that would have identified the shooter and rival gangs in the area even called a truce the day of her funeral in her honor.<\/p>\n But there was one odd clue found at the crime scene. When analyzing the DNA swab taken from the back door, authorities found a mixture of DNA that belonged to Jonathan and an unidentified woman. Yet much of Jonathan\u2019s alibi that morning\u2014except for that supposed Home Depot trip\u2014had been backed up by surveillance footage.<\/p>\n Months went by without answers, until detectives discovered a clue in Simonette\u2019s cell phone that suddenly exposed her husband\u2019s secret double life.<\/p>\n Before her death, Simonette saved a phone number in her phone simply under the name \u201cwoman.\u201d Authorities traced the number back to an escort who went by the name \u201cMs. Pumpkin.\u201d She confirmed that she\u2019d been having relationship with Jonathan for multiple years and even saw him at a motel the day his wife died.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cSo normally Jonathan would call her weeks in advance to arrange a date,\u201d Det. Mike Cosenza explained. \u201cOn this day, he called her the day of from a different number, demanded \u2018I need to see you today.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n