Mrs. Maisel Set Decorator Fatally Stabbed in Murder-Suicide
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- Mary Kate Golding, 34, was pronounced dead shortly after midnight on Tuesday, July 21, at her Astoria, Queens home with a fatal stab wound to the back; the couple's 11-month-old son was found unharmed inside.
- Joseph Azzaretto, 33, Golding's husband, was found dead in nearby Astoria Park shortly after 6:30 a.m. that day; law enforcement sources say he apparently died by hanging in a suspected murder-suicide.
- Golding's credits included set decorating work on Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2018), Hawkeye, Marry Me, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Goosebumps and three episodes of Netflix's 2025 docuseries Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer; she was also credited as assistant set decorator on Sean Durkin's upcoming film Deep Cuts.
- Azzaretto's brother Nicholas pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in 2021 after fatally shooting their father in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, when the elder Azzaretto was threatening his wife with violence; Nicholas was sentenced to 10 years of probation.
- Golding was a 2015 NYU graduate who launched her TV career in 2017 as an art department production assistant on the film The Big Sick and ABC's Time After Time.
Why it matters: The case carries a second-order weight beyond the headline tragedy: Golding's husband Joseph Azzaretto's brother Nicholas pleaded guilty in 2021 to involuntary manslaughter for fatally shooting their father during a domestic violence episode — a documented family history of lethal violence that contextualizes the apparent murder-suicide.
