Hotel developer, wife were volunteers at the National Institutes of Health

Richard L. Vilardo, 65, principal and chief financial officer of a Florida-based hotel development and management company, and his wife, Julianne Vilardo, 67, a former partner of the Gaithersburg, Md.-based accounting firm DeLeon & Stang, were found dead at their home in Rockville, Md., on May 10.

The Maryland medical examiner’s office ruled their deaths a double homicide caused by “sharp force injuries.” Authorities told The Washington Post that a suspect, a neighbor named Scott Tomaszewski, was arrested in Juneau, Alaska, on May 16.

Richard Louis Vilardo was born Jan. 13, 1950, in Brooklyn. He received a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering in 1972 from what is now Western New England University in Springfield, Mass., and a master’s degree in finance from Pace University in New York.

Early on, he was vice president of development for the Northeast region of the Marriott hotel corporation and worked at Urgo Butts & Co., a hotel management company. He was president of RDA Investments, a hotel investment company, before establishing Pinnacle Hotel Management in 1997.

Mrs. Vilardo was born Julianne Randall Humphreys on Feb. 19, 1948, in Ithaca, N.Y. She was a 1970 graduate of Cornell University’s hotel management school. Early in her career, she lived in New York and worked at the certified public accounting firm of Harris, Kerr and Forster, where she met her future husband. The couple, whose nicknames were Dick and Jody, were married in 1976 and shortly afterward moved to Maryland.

She joined the audit division of DeLeon & Stang in 1990 and was a partner from 2002 until her retirement in 2007. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and a local gardening club. She volunteered with her husband at the National Institutes of Health’s Children’s Inn in Bethesda, Md. Both were members of Rockville’s Lakewood Country Club.

Survivors include two children, Andrew Vilardo of Brookeville, Md., and Katherine Vilardo of Arlington, Va.; and two grandchildren. Mr. Vilardo also has a surviving sister.

By Megan McDonough source: washingtonpost.com