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Man Threatened To Kill Wife, Child By Driving Off Cliff In Area, Police Say
With his 4-year-old daughter pleading with him from the backseat of a car, an Orange County man threatened to kill the little girl and her mother by driving off a cliff following a series of domestic violence incidents, police said.
Warwick police said August Melish, 37, had beaten his wife the day before on April 22 at the family’s home in Greenwood Lake, said Lt. Thomas Maslanka.
"Melish choked his wife, hit her, and tried to put a pillow over her face and smother her," he said.
The next day, the wife and daughter managed to escape the home and headed to a relative's home on Ro…
