Byline: Harvy Lipman Staff writer
On Friday evening, Nov. 30, Sheila Kalpakidis left her Clifton Park apartment for a dinner meeting with her former boyfriend, Dominick Cirillo.
Before 24 hours had passed, she says, the 280-pound Cirillo had knocked her unconscious with a punch to the cheek, held her against her will in his Colonie hotel room, locked her in the back seat of his car as he drove to Massachusetts, and dragged her across a Burger King parking lot in Williamstown after she jumped out of the car.
All of which, Kalpakidis adds, made the experience "the best thing that happened to me" in the past eight years.
The 33-year-old Long Island native says she's been trying to get Cirillo out of her life for nearly a decade, and she figures the only way that will happen is if he's sentenced to a long prison term.
The first time she tried to break up with Cirillo, Kalpakidis says, he threatened to burn down her aunt's house (where Kalpakidis was living) if she left him. That was in 1983, less than a year after she met him at a Long Island nightclub.
Since then - according to Kalpakidis, her mother and advocates for crime victims and abused …
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