The Twisted Life and Death of a Predator Priest With a Wrestling Fetish

By Pilar Melendez As a New Jersey priest in the 1970s and 1980s, John Capparelli liked to arrange wrestling matches for parish boys. He gave them skimpy Speedos to wear, took pictures of them grappling, and even joined in—using the rough-housing as an excuse to sadistically grope the kids. “Capparelli kind of played the role …