Jay Thomas Pintacuda

Pintacuda, Jasper “Jay” Thomas, 81, was born March 6, 1945, in Brooklyn, N.Y., and died September 3, 2026, at his home in Asheville, N.C.

He graduated from Sheep’s Head Bay High School before his family relocated to West Palm Beach, F.L. He graduated from Florida Atlantic University in 1966 and served as chief forensic chemist for Palm Beach County beginning in 1969. In 1985, he moved to Asheville, where he worked as a special agent with the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation’s Western Regional Crime Lab until his retirement in 2010. He received the Order of the Long Leaf Pine from the governor of N.C.

He was a member of Foster Adventist Church in Asheville, N.C.

Survivors include his wife, Lucretia Moore Pintacuda; four children, Thomas “Tommy” Pintacuda, Nicole Marshall and her husband, Stephen, Jayson Pintacuda and his wife, Jordan, and Lauren Pintacuda; five grandchildren, Sofia, Sydnie, Stephen, Gia, and Anna; his first wife, Fern Robichaud; two sisters, Barbara and her husband, Blake, and Elaine; nieces, Romina Davidson and her husband, Paul, Marisa and her husband, Remo, and Gina Balcom and her husband, Tom; great-nieces, Grace, Remi, and Ashley; his cousin and best friend, David Vega, and his wife, Darlene; and many cousins.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Thomas and Grace Pintacuda; his sister, Diane Rizzi, and her husband, Pat; his brother-in-law, Jeff Hogue; and his niece, Jenna Hogue.