Brewster resident Melissa Bishop, who used to live in the same building as the Mirras, said she was not that surprised to hear about the killing.
Bishop, 29, said she had to obtain a court order of protection against Pamala Murray Mirra because she was often harassed by her.
"She lived upstairs from me on Main Street in Brewster and one day when her husband went to turn in deposit bottles, she came to my apartment and wanted to come inside because she thought her husband was under my bed," Bishop said yesterday. "Another time, she came into my apartment and wrote 'Dead' on the wall. She always thought her husband was cheating on her. She'd come to my apartment and I'd called the police, but they didn't do anything and would tell me to leave her alone, even though she was harassing me."...
Frank J. Mirra had several minor run-ins with the law.
In September 1998, he was charged with assaulting his girlfriend at a Putnam Valley motel, causing a wound to her forehead that took seven stitches to close.
He had two arrests for driving while intoxicated in the mid-1990s, and in July 1990 was charged with exposing himself to a waitress at a Carmel restaurant.
