New York Daily News

Fuzzy rap for two in mom slay

- BY ESHA RAY AND LEONARD GREENE

As supporters wore purple to honor a murdered Staten Island mom, her husband and his girlfriend accused of the killing appeared in court Thursday amid confusion over the charges against them.

Lawyers for Michael Cammarata and his live-in girlfriend, Ayisha Egea asked a Staten Island judge to clarify the charges against their clients after prosecutor­s issued a felony indictment without specifics.

Cammarata and Egea were arrested after the burned body of Cammarata’s missing wife, Jeanine, was discovered in a storage facility last week.

Jeanine Cammarata, a teacher and mother of three, disappeare­d March 30, following a planned meeting with her husband two days before they were were due in divorce court.

Her charred remains were found Thursday in a Staten Island storage facility surrounded by air fresheners in an apparent attempt to disguise the smell. She s positively ntified Friday ough dental ords. What was he icted for?” mmarata’s yer John Ray asked the ge. “I’ve neseen a crimimore lacking and devoid of the facts. There’s nothing about the manner or cause of death. I don’t think the district attorney or the NYPD had cause at the arraignmen­t to charge them with murder.”

Judge Marina Cora Mundy said prosecutor­s were not obligated to reveal the charges. Both suspects were held without bail.

Egea and Cammarata will be arraigned in Supreme Court in about two weeks. They also face tampering and concealmen­t charges.

Friends and teachers at Public School 29 in Castleton Corners, where Cammarata worked as a substitute teacher, wore purple Thursday to honor the slain educator.

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