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Police thought the murders were a Mafia hit - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: One evening in April of 2006, a person sat at
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Speaker 1: their kitchen table frantically cutting up the page of a
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Speaker 1: newspaper with some scissors. They were working on a very
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Speaker 1: important project, and it was almost done. They finished cutting
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Speaker 1: up the final letter from the page and pasted it
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Speaker 1: onto the sheet of paper. Then they leaned back to
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Speaker 1: read the message that they'd assembled from the scraps. It
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Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. On Sunday afternoon, March 12, 2006,
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Speaker 1: 39-year-old Michael Zimiti Jr. drove his ATV across a frozen
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Speaker 1: lake in Freedom, New Hampshire. And even though it was
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Speaker 1: really cold and the air burned his cheeks and his lungs,
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Speaker 1: Mike smiled as he drove. He really just loved it here.
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Speaker 1: Most of the time, Mike lived two hours away in
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Speaker 1: the town of Wakefield, Massachusetts. But he'd been coming to Freedom,
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Speaker 1: New Hampshire for years because his parents had a vacation
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Speaker 1: house here. And so this tiny lakeside community had always
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Speaker 1: felt like a second home and a peaceful retreat. And
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Speaker 1: Mike had recently bought his own vacation house in Freedom
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Speaker 1: just down the street from his parents. And the purchase
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Speaker 1: had been a really big deal for him. He ran
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Speaker 1: a cement contracting company called Allstate Concrete Pumping. And he'd
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Speaker 1: worked really hard for many years to build up a
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Speaker 1: nice life for his wife, Michelle, and their three kids.
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Speaker 1: And in many ways, the purchase of the second house
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Speaker 1: was proof that he'd done it. But his work with
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Speaker 1: the concrete company had also created some issues in his marriage.
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Speaker 1: Being in charge of a company meant a lot of
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Speaker 1: responsibility and long hours. So Michelle and the kids were
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Speaker 1: on their own quite a bit, which meant Michelle had
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Speaker 1: to do most of the parenting and most of the
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Speaker 1: household stuff. And she'd recently made it clear that Mike
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Speaker 1: being gone all the time, despite how successful he was,
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Speaker 1: was still really hard on her. Now, out on the lake,
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Speaker 1: as Mike was kind of thinking about his whole life,
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Speaker 1: Mike could see another ATV coming toward him. And as
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Speaker 1: it got closer, he could see that the driver of
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Speaker 1: the ATV, was the other problem in his marriage, Sean Fitzpatrick.
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Speaker 1: So Sean was one of their neighbors on the lake,
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Speaker 1: and he'd been a close friend of the family for years.
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Speaker 1: He was retired, and he lived in freedom year-round, and
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Speaker 1: when the Zimittis were there, he'd come over for dinners
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Speaker 1: or barbecues or to take their kids boating out on
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Speaker 1: the lake. He was around so much that Mike's kids
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Speaker 1: actually called him Uncle Sean. But last summer, Mike had
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Speaker 1: found out that his wife Michelle had cheated on him
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Speaker 1: with Sean. Mike had been obviously completely devastated, but he
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Speaker 1: and Michelle had both agreed not to give up on
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Speaker 1: their marriage and had been going to therapy together ever since.
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Speaker 1: And in terms of Mike and Sean's relationship, well, Mike
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Speaker 1: still hadn't actually spoken to Sean since finding out about
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Speaker 1: the affair because mostly he just hated confrontation. It had
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Speaker 1: been easier for him to avoid Sean and focus on
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Speaker 1: rebuilding his relationship with Michelle. So seeing Sean now made
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Speaker 1: Mike want to just turn around and speed off in
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Speaker 1: the other direction. But Mike could see that Sean was
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Speaker 1: already waving him down, so he came to a stop
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Speaker 1: and waited there as Sean pulled his ATV up. And
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Speaker 1: Sean did not beat around the bush. He immediately told
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Speaker 1: Mike that he was glad he ran into him here
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Speaker 1: because he'd been wanting to apologize about last summer and Michelle.
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Speaker 1: It obviously wasn't okay, and he hoped they could just,
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Speaker 1: you know, put it behind them. And Mike, you know,
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Speaker 1: he was so surprised by how sincere Sean was being
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Speaker 1: that he just said, you know what, it's all good. Which...
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Speaker 1: He didn't mean, because it definitely was not okay, but again,
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Speaker 1: Mike's not a confrontational guy. All Mike really wanted to
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Speaker 1: do here was get out of this interaction and get
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Speaker 1: away from Sean, because this made him really uncomfortable. And also,
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Speaker 1: he genuinely did need to leave basically right now, because
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Speaker 1: he and Michelle and the kids were getting ready to
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Speaker 1: head back to Wakefield soon, and he wanted to go
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Speaker 1: help Michelle pack up. And so pretty quickly, Mike told
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Speaker 1: Sean that he really had to go here, And then before,
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Speaker 1: you know, Sean could protest, Mike turned his ATV around
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Speaker 1: and he gunned it back across the lake towards his house.
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Speaker 1: About 15 minutes later, Mike walked into his house and
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Speaker 1: the first thing he saw was a bunch of suitcases
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Speaker 1: all packed and sitting by the door. And he realized that,
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Speaker 1: you know, Michelle had already done all the work. But
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Speaker 1: seconds later, Michelle came in and gave Mike a kiss.
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Speaker 1: And she said, you know, the kids were just finishing
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Speaker 1: up cleaning their rooms and they could all head out
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Speaker 1: in a few minutes. And then Mike heard the sound
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Speaker 1: of a car beeping twice outside. And when he and
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Speaker 1: his wife heard that Michelle kind of rolled her eyes
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Speaker 1: and laughed because they both knew it was clearly Mike's parents.
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Speaker 1: His parents had also been in freedom for this weekend
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Speaker 1: at their house down the street. And they were also
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Speaker 1: making the two hour drive back to Wakefield this afternoon.
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Speaker 1: And Michelle was laughing because it amused her that neither
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Speaker 1: Mike nor his father could manage to go a single
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Speaker 1: day without talking to each other. So Mike's dad was
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Speaker 1: also named Michael and the name was not the only
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Speaker 1: thing they shared. They were also best friends and coworkers.
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Speaker 1: Michael Sr. owned the company that Mike ran, Allstate Concrete.
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Speaker 1: So it was like a family operation, and Mike Jr.
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Speaker 1: had never even thought of doing anything else. He'd jumped
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Speaker 1: into the concrete business right out of high school, and
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Speaker 1: he and his dad had been working together ever since. Now,
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Speaker 1: the Allstate Concrete company had had some struggles, just like
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Speaker 1: any company would, including a lawsuit from a former employee
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Speaker 1: that had been pretty stressful. But for the most part,
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Speaker 1: the business was a huge success... Right now, they were
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Speaker 1: busier than ever, working on an enormous construction project in
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Speaker 1: nearby Boston. So Mike headed outside to say hi to
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Speaker 1: his parents and to talk a little business with his dad.
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Speaker 1: He asked Mike Sr. if he'd called their employee, Chester Roberts, yet,
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Speaker 1: because Mike and his dad had plans to be at
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Speaker 1: the office first thing tomorrow morning, and Mike wanted Chester
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Speaker 1: to be there too. Chester worked part-time for them as
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Speaker 1: a driver and also handyman, and he was easily the
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Speaker 1: most reliable employee that they had. So whenever they had
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Speaker 1: a packed week ahead, they always called Chester in. And
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Speaker 1: to Mike Jr. 's relief, Mike Sr. said yes, he'd
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Speaker 1: already spoken to Chester, and they were good to go.
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Speaker 1: So eventually, they all said their goodbyes, and Mike Jr.
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Speaker 1: told his dad he would see him tomorrow. Just before
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Speaker 1: 8 a.m. the next morning, Monday, March 13th, Mike Jr.
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Speaker 1: pulled his truck into the parking lot of Allstate Concrete.
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Speaker 1: He was right on time. He could see he was
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Speaker 1: the first vehicle there, so he got out and hustled
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Speaker 1: across the lot because it was raining, and he unlocked
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Speaker 1: a side door by one of the garage doors. So
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Speaker 1: the Allstate building was basically just a massive garage with
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Speaker 1: three huge roll-up doors for their cement trucks to pull into.
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Speaker 1: But it also had an upstairs office where Mike and
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Speaker 1: his father did all their administrative work. And so after
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Speaker 1: Mike went in through the side door into the big garage,
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Speaker 1: he headed up a set of steps that led to
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Speaker 1: his office on the second level. And when he got there,
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Speaker 1: he sat in his desk chair and started going over
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Speaker 1: the week's logistics. And just a few minutes later, he
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Speaker 1: heard another vehicle pull into the lot outside. Mike figured
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Speaker 1: that very likely this was his father because Chester often
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Speaker 1: came to the office on foot. Then Mike Jr. heard
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Speaker 1: the downstairs door open and footsteps coming up the stairs.
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Speaker 1: A few minutes later, Mike's father, Mike Sr., pulled his
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Speaker 1: truck into the Allstate concrete parking lot and parked next
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Speaker 1: to his son's truck. He hopped out and walked quickly
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Speaker 1: to the building's side door to get out of the rain.
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Speaker 1: But when he tried to push open the side door...
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Speaker 1: it got stuck on something and wouldn't open all the way.
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Speaker 1: So he looked through the crack to see what was
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Speaker 1: blocking the door, and he froze. Because there was clearly
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Speaker 1: a man lying face down inside of the building in
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Speaker 1: a huge pool of blood. Now, it was dark inside
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Speaker 1: the building, and so Michael Sr. could not see the
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Speaker 1: man's face. He had no idea who this guy was.
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Speaker 1: But whoever it was, he knew sort of instinctively that
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Speaker 1: it was not his son. Mike Jr. was a big guy,
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Speaker 1: and even in the dark, It was clear this man
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Speaker 1: had a different build. And so Michael Sr. 's heart
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Speaker 1: was pounding now, and all he could think to do
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Speaker 1: was just back away, grab his cell phone, and call 911. However,
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Speaker 1: after Michael Sr. got off the phone with the dispatcher
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Speaker 1: and they said they were sending people over now, Mike Sr.
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Speaker 1: realized he couldn't just wait for the police to get there.
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Speaker 1: I mean, there was clearly someone either very badly hurt
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Speaker 1: or dead in his garage, and his son was likely
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Speaker 1: somewhere inside too. I mean, his truck was here. And
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Speaker 1: so he had to go in and make sure his
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Speaker 1: son was okay. So Michael Sr. walked away from the
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Speaker 1: blocked door where he had been standing when he called
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Speaker 1: the police, and he pulled up one of the big
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Speaker 1: roll-up garage doors. And once it was open, he didn't
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Speaker 1: see anyone. He just ran inside and began frantically screaming
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Speaker 1: his son's name. But Mike Jr. didn't answer, and there
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Speaker 1: was no sign of him anywhere. So eventually, Mike Sr.
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Speaker 1: ran to the staircase and went up to the second-floor office.
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Speaker 1: And as soon as Mike Sr. barged into the office...
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Speaker 1: He stopped in horror, because there, sitting slumped in the
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Speaker 1: desk chair, was the blood-covered body of his son. Over
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Speaker 1: an hour later, Massachusetts State Trooper Kevin Baker pulled up
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Speaker 1: in front of Allstate Concrete. He could see the large
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Speaker 1: building was already roped off with caution tape, and there
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Speaker 1: were a dozen or more crime scene techs and officers
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Speaker 1: with the Wakefield Police Department who were moving in and
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Speaker 1: out of an open garage door collecting evidence. So Baker
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Speaker 1: was not a part of the Wakefield Police Department. He
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Speaker 1: was with the state police. But in Massachusetts, state troopers
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Speaker 1: conduct homicide investigations right alongside local authorities. And Baker had
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Speaker 1: a feeling that this case would definitely need his help.
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Speaker 1: Because Wakefield, they didn't get many homicides. The town was
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Speaker 1: about 10 miles north of Boston and had a reputation
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Speaker 1: as being a really peaceful and safe place. The kind
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Speaker 1: of small town where everyone actually knew each other. Baker
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Speaker 1: got out of his cruiser and looked around for whoever
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Speaker 1: was in charge. and he didn't have to wait long
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Speaker 1: because an officer hurried up to him and introduced himself
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Speaker 1: as Detective Richard Cass with the Wakefield Police Department. Cass
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Speaker 1: told Baker to follow him, and as they walked towards
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Speaker 1: the open garage door, he quickly briefed Baker up on
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Speaker 1: the situation. There were two male victims inside, and both
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Speaker 1: were deceased. They'd both been shot, and they'd been found
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Speaker 1: by the company's owner, Michael Zamedi Sr., a little after
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Speaker 1: 8 a.m. Baker followed Cass into the garage and over
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Speaker 1: to the first body, which was face down on the
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Speaker 1: floor just inside a smaller side door. Cass explained that
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Speaker 1: this victim was 51-year-old Chester Roberts, a part-time truck driver
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Speaker 1: for Allstate. It hadn't been difficult to identify him because
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Speaker 1: Chester did a lot of handiwork around town and was
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Speaker 1: known by all the locals, including Detective Cass himself. When
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Speaker 1: Baker went to the body, he could tell right away
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Speaker 1: that Chester had been shot in the back. It was
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Speaker 1: a single shot and most likely was from a shotgun,
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Speaker 1: since clearly there was a blast radius where there was
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Speaker 1: like a spray effect with a lot of little pellets
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Speaker 1: that entered his body. Chester had no other visible injuries,
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Speaker 1: including no defensive injuries. And when Baker stood and looked
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Speaker 1: around the garage, he also didn't see anything that pointed
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Speaker 1: to a robbery or any kind of struggle. There was
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Speaker 1: pretty pricey looking equipment just sitting around and nothing was
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Speaker 1: toppled over or obviously out of place. So Baker guessed
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Speaker 1: that Chester's killer had likely snuck up on him and
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Speaker 1: shot him in the back before he even had a
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Speaker 1: chance to turn around. Baker spent a couple more minutes
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Speaker 1: looking around at the doors and the windows, And again,
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Speaker 1: didn't see any signs of, you know, forced entry or
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Speaker 1: anything out of the ordinary. But that didn't mean much.
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Speaker 1: Chester had likely opened up for the day and begun work.
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Speaker 1: And the killer had just come in after him. And
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Speaker 1: so after a few minutes, when Baker was done looking
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Speaker 1: around the first floor, he told Cass he was ready
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Speaker 1: to go up to the second floor to see the
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Speaker 1: second body. Moments later, Cass led Baker into the second
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Speaker 1: floor office, where the body of 39-year-old Mike Cimetti Jr.
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Speaker 1: had been found. Detective Cass said sadly that, just like
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Speaker 1: with Chester, he knew Mike personally as well. Mike Jr.
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Speaker 1: had not just been shot in the torso the way
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Speaker 1: Chester had been shot. He had been shot in the
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Speaker 1: face as well as in the chest. And the force
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Speaker 1: of these shots had been so powerful that, like his
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Speaker 1: desk and surrounding paperwork, were also all drenched in blood.
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Speaker 1: And for the most part, you know, Mike was basically unrecognizable.
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Speaker 1: But what struck Baker the most was not just how
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Speaker 1: gruesome this was. It was the fact that, you know,
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Speaker 1: Mike Jr. is still kind of slumped in his chair.
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Speaker 1: You know, he's in his office. Whoever did this, it's
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Speaker 1: like they went in here to execute Mike really intentionally.
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Speaker 1: They marched in here. They didn't touch anything else. And
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Speaker 1: they shot Mike right in the face with a shotgun
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Speaker 1: before Mike could even get up. I mean, this seemed
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Speaker 1: very intentional. Somebody came here to kill Mike. And so
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Speaker 1: as Baker was thinking about that, He realized that this
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Speaker 1: likely meant Mike Jr. was the one who actually got
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Speaker 1: shot first, before Chester had even arrived at the building. Otherwise,
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Speaker 1: you know, Mike Jr. would have heard the gunshot downstairs,
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Speaker 1: and he wouldn't have been so caught off guard sitting
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Speaker 1: in his chair like this. And so, again, if Mike
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Speaker 1: was the first person shot, it just further suggested that
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Speaker 1: he was the main target of this attack. The crime scene,
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Speaker 1: you know, of course was gruesome, but considering it was
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Speaker 1: remarkably clean, I mean, there were no bloody footprints or
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Speaker 1: any indication the killer had interacted with the scene. And
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Speaker 1: the Zimittis did fit the mafia stereotype, an Italian-American family
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Speaker 1: involved in construction. Baker told Cass what he was thinking,
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Speaker 1: sort of as he was surveying the scene here. And Cass,
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Speaker 1: as he heard this, he sort of had this thoughtful
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Speaker 1: look come over his face. He said he knew the
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Speaker 1: Zimittis pretty well, and Mike Jr. and his father were
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Speaker 1: really good people. So he found it hard to believe
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Speaker 1: they were involved in any kind of shady, you know,
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Speaker 1: mafia business deals. But he conceded that it was possible,
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Speaker 1: especially since these committees were contractors on a project called
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Speaker 1: the Big Dig. And this made Baker immediately raise his eyebrows.
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Speaker 1: So the Big Dig was literally the biggest construction project
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Speaker 1: in the country and involved building a tunnel under the
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Speaker 1: harbor in Boston. But it had been kind of like
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Speaker 1: a total disaster, just a major headache for the city
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Speaker 1: since it was way over budget. and had been going
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Speaker 1: on for 15 years and still wasn't done. This huge
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Speaker 1: project had also been famously hampered by mafia dealings and
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Speaker 1: corrupt payoffs. So now Baker had to wonder if the
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Speaker 1: Zamedis had either been involved in these seedy deals or
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Speaker 1: had maybe accidentally upset the wrong person while on the job.
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Speaker 1: But even if the murders had nothing to do with
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Speaker 1: the mob, Baker still thought it was very likely that
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Speaker 1: the killer was somehow connected to their business. Somebody who
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Speaker 1: maybe had worked at Allstate Concrete, or maybe who had
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Speaker 1: been a client, you know, and would know where Mike
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Speaker 1: worked in the building, and that he'd be there early
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Speaker 1: in the morning. And while the second victim, Chester, was
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Speaker 1: probably not the primary target, Baker wasn't sure yet why
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Speaker 1: he was also killed. He could have been killed because
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Speaker 1: he was just at work at the wrong moment, or
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Speaker 1: maybe he was wrapped up in the same conflict as
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Speaker 1: the Zamedis. So for a moment, Baker just stood there,
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Speaker 1: staring at the scene, staring at the blood-soaked paperwork all
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Speaker 1: over the desk, And then eventually he turned to Cass
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Speaker 1: and said they would need a list of all of
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Speaker 1: Allstate's employees and clients. Baker then spent some more time
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Speaker 1: just kind of walking around the office looking for evidence,
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Speaker 1: and he noticed a 16-gauge shotgun shell on the floor.
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Speaker 1: So he grabbed a nearby tech and told her to
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Speaker 1: bag it and see if she could locate any other shells.
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Speaker 1: Baker and Cass then headed outside, where already a crowd
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Speaker 1: of people were gathering outside around the outside of the
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Speaker 1: police perimeter. Once they were outside, Trooper Baker asked Cass
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Speaker 1: if They could start by speaking with the person who
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Speaker 1: actually discovered the bodies, Michael Zamedi Sr. But Detective Cass
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Speaker 1: shook his head and said no. He explained when he'd
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Speaker 1: first gotten to the scene that Michael Sr. had been
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Speaker 1: so distraught over his son's death that he could barely speak.
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Speaker 1: So Cass had just sent him home. Another Wakefield police
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Speaker 1: officer had done the same thing when Mike Jr. 's wife,
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Speaker 1: Michelle Zamedi, showed up, totally hysterical, saying she had heard
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Speaker 1: there was an accident. And they had told her that
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Speaker 1: her husband was dead and taken her home too. Baker understood,
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Speaker 1: but was not thrilled to hear this. He preferred to
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Speaker 1: speak to witnesses and family really quickly and in person.
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Speaker 1: In a murder, a spouse is always a suspect, so
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Speaker 1: he was especially disappointed to have missed Michelle. But there
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Speaker 1: was still plenty to do with the scene, and obviously
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Speaker 1: the Wakefield police knew where the family could be found later.
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Speaker 1: So Baker turned to Cass and suggested they just start
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Speaker 1: canvassing the businesses nearby. The following morning, March 14th, Trooper
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Speaker 1: Baker parked his car in front of Mike's parents' house
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Speaker 1: in Wakefield. He was with Detective Cass, and they were
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Speaker 1: there to speak with Mike Sr. They'd just gotten the
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Speaker 1: autopsies back for both Chester and Mike, but they didn't
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Speaker 1: reveal anything that they didn't already know. Chester had been
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Speaker 1: shot once, Mike twice, and both died likely within seconds.
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Speaker 1: But the investigators did have one potential lead from their
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Speaker 1: canvas of the neighborhood. Even though they hadn't found any
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Speaker 1: surveillance cameras at Allstate Concrete... Some businesses around Allstate had some,
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Speaker 1: so Baker had some officers scrubbing through that footage now.
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Speaker 1: He also had another team interviewing Chester Roberts' family, because
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Speaker 1: there was still a chance that Baker had gotten this
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Speaker 1: all wrong and maybe Chester was actually the target. Besides that,
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Speaker 1: the crime techs had not found much physical evidence at
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Speaker 1: the scene. There were no fingerprints, and since it had
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Speaker 1: been raining, they hadn't been able to collect any footprints
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Speaker 1: or car tracks from outside. So now, Baker reached up
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Speaker 1: and knocked on the front door of the Smitty's house,
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Speaker 1: hoping that Mike Sr. would be able to point them
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Speaker 1: in the right direction. A minute later, Baker and Cass
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Speaker 1: sat in the living room with Mike Sr. and Pat,
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Speaker 1: Mike's mom. Both of Mike's parents seemed incredibly emotional. Michael Sr.
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Speaker 1: was visibly shaking, while Pat just cried. And seeing how
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Speaker 1: upset they were now made Baker realize that Cass had
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Speaker 1: made the right call in sending Michael Sr. home yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Even 24 hours later, it was still going to be
18:21
Speaker 1: very hard to get any sort of real answer out
18:24
Speaker 1: of them because of how upset they were. So Baker
18:26
Speaker 1: decided he would just have to keep it really brief.
18:29
Speaker 1: The first thing he did is he asked Mike Sr.
18:31
Speaker 1: to just go over the actual discovery of the bodies.
18:34
Speaker 1: Tell me what happened. And what he said lined up
18:36
Speaker 1: with everything that Baker had heard from Cass and from dispatch.
18:40
Speaker 1: And so after Mike Sr. went over that, Baker moved
18:43
Speaker 1: on to the real reason he was there. He asked
18:45
Speaker 1: if there was anybody in Mike Jr. 's life who
18:48
Speaker 1: might have wanted to hurt him. Mike Sr. took a
18:51
Speaker 1: few shaky breaths as he thought about the question. And
18:53
Speaker 1: then he said that, you know, there were a few
18:55
Speaker 1: people in the industry that he and his son did
18:57
Speaker 1: not necessarily get along with. But mostly, they tried to
19:01
Speaker 1: have good relationships with everyone. I mean, getting in fights
19:04
Speaker 1: was just bad business. But as he was saying this,
19:07
Speaker 1: Mike Sr. suddenly sat up straighter like he just thought
19:10
Speaker 1: of something. And he said, actually, there was a former
19:12
Speaker 1: co-worker who did definitely have a grudge against them. His nephew,
19:17
Speaker 1: Hank Jennings. Hank got mad at them a few years
19:19
Speaker 1: ago about unpaid overtime wages and actually filed a lawsuit
19:23
Speaker 1: against them. Now, they'd eventually paid Hank a settlement, but
19:27
Speaker 1: they still all hated each other. Mike Sr. looked over
19:30
Speaker 1: at his wife, Pat, and she just nodded and said
19:32
Speaker 1: the whole thing had been really high stress and very volatile.
19:36
Speaker 1: Baker took down Hank's information and talked with Mike's parents
19:39
Speaker 1: for just a few more minutes. then he nodded to Cass,
19:42
Speaker 1: and they stood to leave. Baker knew he still needed
19:45
Speaker 1: to speak more to the committees, but for now, he
19:47
Speaker 1: was going to give them a break. And instead, he
19:49
Speaker 1: and Cass would look into Hank. Two days later, Baker
19:53
Speaker 1: sat in Cass's office at the Wakefield Police Department, poring
19:56
Speaker 1: over crime scene photos and witness statements. He was starting
19:59
Speaker 1: to get antsy. I mean, after meeting with Mike's parents,
20:02
Speaker 1: he'd been excited to speak with Hank Jennings, the disgruntled
20:05
Speaker 1: former employee who also happened to be Mike's cousin. But
20:08
Speaker 1: even though Baker and Cass had sent officers out to
20:11
Speaker 1: track Hank down for an interview, they hadn't been able
20:13
Speaker 1: to get a hold of him yet. However, they had
20:16
Speaker 1: gotten in touch with Mike's wife, Michelle, and had questioned
20:19
Speaker 1: her at her house in Wakefield, but she hadn't given
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Speaker 1: them much. She said that she was at home with
20:24
Speaker 1: her kids at the time of her husband's death and
20:26
Speaker 1: that she really didn't know of anybody who would want
20:28
Speaker 1: to hurt Mike Jr. Also, Baker and Cass had looked
20:31
Speaker 1: into Allstate Concrete's financial statements and they had found nothing
20:35
Speaker 1: that suggested there was anything shady or mafia-related happening with
20:39
Speaker 1: the company. Still, Baker knew they were better off than
20:42
Speaker 1: they had been a few days ago, primarily because they
20:44
Speaker 1: had had a chance to review a bunch of the
20:46
Speaker 1: surveillance footage from the businesses around Allstate, and one of
20:50
Speaker 1: those security cameras had been aimed at the street right
20:53
Speaker 1: outside Allstate. Now, this angle didn't show the Allstate parking
20:56
Speaker 1: lot itself, but it did show everyone who entered and
21:00
Speaker 1: exited that parking lot from the street. So this particular
21:04
Speaker 1: camera had picked up Mike Jr. 's truck arriving at
21:07
Speaker 1: work at 7.39 a.m. and then at 7.44 a.m., so
21:11
Speaker 1: five minutes later, an unknown green pickup truck pulled in
21:14
Speaker 1: as well. And then a few minutes after that, Chester
21:18
Speaker 1: Roberts was seen arriving at Allstate on foot. And then
21:21
Speaker 1: at 7.50, the green truck was seen again leaving the
21:25
Speaker 1: parking lot 12 minutes before Michael Sr. 's red truck
21:29
Speaker 1: arrived at 8.02. So whoever the killer was, it looked
21:32
Speaker 1: like they had driven that green truck and had killed
21:35
Speaker 1: Mike and Chester between 7.44 a.m. and 7.50 a.m. The
21:40
Speaker 1: video wasn't clear enough to show the driver of this
21:43
Speaker 1: mysterious green truck or even see its plates. And it
21:46
Speaker 1: didn't actually show the driver of this vehicle, the killer,
21:49
Speaker 1: getting out of the vehicle and entering the building. But
21:53
Speaker 1: knowing the style and color of very likely the killer's
21:56
Speaker 1: vehicle would definitely help them narrow down potential suspects. Just then,
22:00
Speaker 1: the desk phone rang, and Baker watched as Cass grabbed
22:03
Speaker 1: it and said hello. And then Cass got a confused
22:06
Speaker 1: look on his face before he thanked the caller and
22:08
Speaker 1: said they'd be right over. He hung up and told
22:10
Speaker 1: Baker that that was Michelle Zamedi, and she'd called to
22:14
Speaker 1: say that she had new information to give them, something
22:17
Speaker 1: that she hadn't mentioned in her first interview, and that
22:20
Speaker 1: it was really important. About 15 minutes later, Baker and
22:33
Speaker 1: Cass sat down across from Michelle in her living room
22:36
Speaker 1: for the second time. And to Baker, Michelle seemed very
22:40
Speaker 1: different from the last time they spoke. Two days ago,
22:43
Speaker 1: she'd seemed horrified and grief-stricken. But now, she just seemed
22:48
Speaker 1: really nervous. She kept touching her hair and fiddling with
22:51
Speaker 1: a stack of condolence cards on the coffee table. Baker
22:54
Speaker 1: commented that there were a lot of cards, and Michelle
22:56
Speaker 1: just nodded. She said, So many people had reached out
22:59
Speaker 1: and sent cards, all their friends and neighbors in Wakefield
23:02
Speaker 1: and in Freedom, New Hampshire, where their second home was.
23:05
Speaker 1: And then Michelle took a breath and just got straight
23:07
Speaker 1: to the reason that she'd called them. She said that
23:10
Speaker 1: she'd withheld information about one of her neighbors in Freedom.
23:13
Speaker 1: His name was Sean Fitzpatrick, and she'd had an affair
23:16
Speaker 1: with him. Baker cleared his throat in surprise and then
23:20
Speaker 1: asked her to go on. Michelle's eyes filled with tears
23:23
Speaker 1: as she explained how Mike Jr. worked so much, and
23:27
Speaker 1: she and the kids spent a lot of time at
23:28
Speaker 1: their lake house, and so that meant they spent a
23:32
Speaker 1: lot of time with Sean. And eventually, this friendship between
23:35
Speaker 1: Michelle and Sean had grown into a romance. Baker couldn't
23:40
Speaker 1: believe he was hearing this. A secret love triangle gave
23:43
Speaker 1: both Sean and Michelle plenty of motivation to want Mike dead.
23:48
Speaker 1: But before he could ask any follow-up questions... Michelle said
23:52
Speaker 1: her husband actually knew all about her affair and that
23:56
Speaker 1: they had been in therapy and they'd begun to completely
23:59
Speaker 1: turn their marriage around. So finally, a month ago, she'd
24:02
Speaker 1: officially totally broken things off with Sean and Sean had
24:06
Speaker 1: been really upset about it. Baker shared a look with
24:09
Speaker 1: Cass and could tell they were both thinking the same thing. Obviously,
24:13
Speaker 1: they needed to speak to Sean immediately. But also, Michelle
24:17
Speaker 1: was now back to being a primary suspect too. Maybe
24:20
Speaker 1: she had wanted her husband out of the picture so
24:22
Speaker 1: she could be with Sean. And maybe the only reason
24:25
Speaker 1: she was telling them this was to get ahead of it. However,
24:28
Speaker 1: they would need a lot more evidence before they could
24:30
Speaker 1: prove any of that. So for now, Baker just got
24:32
Speaker 1: Sean's number and address from Michelle and told her they
24:35
Speaker 1: would be in touch. Later that night, Baker and Cass
24:39
Speaker 1: were once again inside of Cass's office. But this time,
24:42
Speaker 1: they were there with another officer who was there to
24:44
Speaker 1: give them a crucial update. After speaking with Michelle, Baker
24:48
Speaker 1: had sent a team of officers up to Freedom, New
24:49
Speaker 1: Hampshire to speak with Sean, the neighbor she had been
24:52
Speaker 1: having an affair with. And now, one of those officers
24:55
Speaker 1: was back in Wakefield to tell them what he had learned.
24:58
Speaker 1: And the first thing Baker wanted to know was not
25:00
Speaker 1: about their conversation. It was just, did you see a
25:03
Speaker 1: green truck in Sean's driveway? But the officer shook his
25:07
Speaker 1: head and said, Sean did own a truck, but it
25:10
Speaker 1: was bright red. Then he went on to say that
25:13
Speaker 1: when they had spoken to Sean... he had completely denied
25:16
Speaker 1: having an affair with Michelle. Sean had admitted that he
25:19
Speaker 1: had dated a lot of girls, but he'd insisted that
25:21
Speaker 1: he and Michelle were just close family friends. Now, the
25:24
Speaker 1: officers who were there speaking to Sean just stood there
25:27
Speaker 1: and let Sean talk, never telling him that they already
25:30
Speaker 1: knew that Michelle fully admitted to them having an affair
25:34
Speaker 1: and they knew Sean was lying here. Baker almost laughed
25:36
Speaker 1: when he heard this because he did not believe Sean
25:39
Speaker 1: at all. And if he was lying like he appeared
25:41
Speaker 1: to be, that made him seem pretty guilty. But before
25:45
Speaker 1: he could say so, the officer added one more thing.
25:48
Speaker 1: He said Sean actually had a solid alibi. He'd been
25:51
Speaker 1: at home on the morning of the murders, and one
25:54
Speaker 1: of his neighbors had actually confirmed it. This particular neighbor
25:57
Speaker 1: took her morning walk every day at 9 a.m., and
26:00
Speaker 1: she'd seen Sean outside his house right around then. Baker sighed.
26:04
Speaker 1: It took around two hours to drive between Freedom and Wakefield,
26:07
Speaker 1: so Sean would not have had enough time to kill
26:10
Speaker 1: Mike and Chester by 7.50 a.m., and then get to
26:14
Speaker 1: freedom by nine. And so suddenly, Sean Fitzpatrick felt like
26:17
Speaker 1: another very promising dead end. On March 18th, so five
26:23
Speaker 1: days after the murders of Mike Cimetti and Chester Roberts,
26:26
Speaker 1: Detectives Baker and Cass stood at the back of a
26:28
Speaker 1: church in Wakefield, Massachusetts. They were there for Mike's funeral,
26:32
Speaker 1: and the church was absolutely packed. But the investigators were
26:35
Speaker 1: not just there to pay their respects. They were also
26:38
Speaker 1: there to speak to Hank Jennings. the cousin of Mike
26:41
Speaker 1: who had filed that lawsuit against the Concrete Company. Since
26:44
Speaker 1: by that point, they still had not been able to
26:46
Speaker 1: officially get a hold of Hank, Cass had suggested that
26:49
Speaker 1: they just corner him at Mike's funeral, which he was
26:51
Speaker 1: very likely to attend because, you know, despite his rift
26:54
Speaker 1: with the Zamedis, he was still family. And when the
26:58
Speaker 1: service wrapped up and everybody stood to leave, Baker felt
27:01
Speaker 1: a nudge on his arm. Cass leaned over and whispered
27:04
Speaker 1: that they'd been right. And he pointed out Hank right
27:07
Speaker 1: in the crowd. So as the attendees started filing out
27:10
Speaker 1: of the church, the investigators pushed their way over to
27:13
Speaker 1: Hank and got in front of him just before he
27:15
Speaker 1: could step outside. Baker immediately noticed that Hank's whole body
27:19
Speaker 1: went tense when they blocked his way, like he wanted
27:21
Speaker 1: to try to make a run for it. So Baker
27:23
Speaker 1: just cut to the chase and he said, Hank, will
27:26
Speaker 1: you come with us and speak to us, please? And
27:28
Speaker 1: Hank's eyes got really wide and he just said, no way,
27:31
Speaker 1: not without his lawyer. Then he pushed past the investigators
27:34
Speaker 1: and hurried outside. Baker and Cass didn't follow him. Instead,
27:38
Speaker 1: they just exchanged a look because they knew now that
27:41
Speaker 1: Hank was obviously their primary suspect. Five weeks after the funeral,
27:50
Speaker 1: in mid-April of 2006, state trooper Kevin Baker sat in
27:54
Speaker 1: Detective Cass' office in the Wakefield Police Department. He was
27:57
Speaker 1: wearing gloves and he was holding a piece of paper
28:00
Speaker 1: that looked like an old-fashioned ransom note. It was covered
28:04
Speaker 1: in letters that had been clearly cut out of a newspaper.
28:07
Speaker 1: and it spelled out a very alarming message. Close business now,
28:11
Speaker 1: or more family will die. This message had been brought
28:14
Speaker 1: to them by Mike Jr. 's mother, Pat, who said
28:17
Speaker 1: they had received it in the mail that morning. For
28:19
Speaker 1: the Zamedis, for so many reasons, this letter was terrifying.
28:23
Speaker 1: It was not just a reminder of their son's murder,
28:26
Speaker 1: but also a promise that there would be more violence.
28:29
Speaker 1: But for Baker, the note was a lead, which they
28:32
Speaker 1: really needed, because it had been over a month since
28:35
Speaker 1: Michael and Chester were killed, And at this point, the
28:38
Speaker 1: two investigators had managed to rule out basically every one
28:41
Speaker 1: of their suspects, and that included Hank Jennings. They'd learned
28:44
Speaker 1: that Hank's clear reluctance to meet with them was not
28:47
Speaker 1: because of guilt. It was because he had signed a
28:50
Speaker 1: non-disclosure agreement during the settlement with the Zamedis and didn't
28:54
Speaker 1: want to break it. And when they did finally speak
28:56
Speaker 1: to him, he clearly had an alibi. He was at
28:59
Speaker 1: work when Mike and Chester were killed, and Baker and
29:02
Speaker 1: Cass had confirmed it with his employer. And while Hank
29:04
Speaker 1: did own some shotguns, none of them were 16 gauge.
29:08
Speaker 1: So Hank joined the pile of other discarded suspects, like Michelle,
29:12
Speaker 1: who could have had the motive to kill Mike Jr.
29:14
Speaker 1: since she was wrapped up in an affair with their neighbor,
29:17
Speaker 1: but she'd been incredibly cooperative and they hadn't been able
29:20
Speaker 1: to find any evidence that she might have been involved,
29:23
Speaker 1: like maybe if she had hired someone or something. And
29:25
Speaker 1: her ex-lover, Sean, was also very suspicious and had a
29:29
Speaker 1: strong motive to kill Mike, but his alibi had cleared him.
29:32
Speaker 1: There was no way Sean could have been in Wakefield
29:34
Speaker 1: during the murders because his neighbor saw him about an
29:37
Speaker 1: hour later at his home, which was over a hundred
29:39
Speaker 1: miles away and so now this this warning note that
29:42
Speaker 1: looked like a ransom note seemed to point back towards
29:45
Speaker 1: the theory that baker and cass had ruled out at
29:48
Speaker 1: the very beginning that the murders were business related and
29:51
Speaker 1: the mafia was involved cass was a local and he
29:55
Speaker 1: told baker that there had been a lot of rumors
29:57
Speaker 1: swirling around about the murders in the community Because of
30:00
Speaker 1: the Zimiti's role in the Big Dig, the general consensus
30:04
Speaker 1: around Wakefield was that the mob theory made the most sense.
30:07
Speaker 1: But Baker really wasn't so sure. I mean, they'd looked
30:10
Speaker 1: into the Zimiti's books and records repeatedly, and they hadn't
30:13
Speaker 1: seen anything to suggest any shady deals or potential mob interaction. Also,
30:18
Speaker 1: Baker didn't think this ransom-style note made from newspaper clippings
30:22
Speaker 1: was the mob's style. It just felt kind of silly
30:25
Speaker 1: and performative. Like maybe somebody was trying to make it
30:28
Speaker 1: seem like the mob to lead the investigation in the
30:31
Speaker 1: wrong direction. But even if that was the case, this
30:34
Speaker 1: note was still huge. Because maybe whoever had sent it
30:38
Speaker 1: had left their fingerprints or DNA on it. So Baker
30:41
Speaker 1: bagged up the note and Cass carried it off to
30:43
Speaker 1: send to the crime lab. Baker knew the results from
30:45
Speaker 1: the lab would not be immediate. So while they waited,
30:48
Speaker 1: he wanted to re-interview all their suspects and all their
30:51
Speaker 1: witnesses in case they'd overlooked anything. A few days later,
30:55
Speaker 1: Baker sat alone at Cass' desk reading another witness statement.
30:59
Speaker 1: He'd been revitalized by all the new evidence they'd gathered
31:02
Speaker 1: and was feeling really optimistic about their ability to solve
31:05
Speaker 1: this thing. Aside from conducting new interviews, they had gotten
31:09
Speaker 1: some forensics from that ransom letter. The lab had found
31:12
Speaker 1: both DNA and a palm print on it. Now, they
31:15
Speaker 1: just needed a suspect to compare it to. And just then,
31:19
Speaker 1: the office door flung open and a very excited Cass
31:23
Speaker 1: barged in. An hour later, Baker and Cass walked up
31:27
Speaker 1: the front steps at Michelle's and Mitty's house, and they
31:30
Speaker 1: knocked on her front door. When she answered, they asked
31:33
Speaker 1: her for permission to come inside and take a certain
31:36
Speaker 1: small object from her house. And after Michelle, who was
31:39
Speaker 1: sort of confused by what they were asking for, said, okay,
31:42
Speaker 1: come on in, they went right past her, went straight
31:45
Speaker 1: to this object, they bagged it, went right back outside,
31:48
Speaker 1: and sent it off to the crime lab. And as
31:50
Speaker 1: soon as the lab test results came back, Baker and
31:53
Speaker 1: Cass knew they had solved the case. Based on DNA,
32:03
Speaker 1: other forensic evidence, and witness statements, here is a reconstruction
32:06
Speaker 1: of what police believe happened to Michael Smitty Jr. and
32:09
Speaker 1: Chester Roberts on the morning of March 13, 2006. At 7.45am,
32:22
Speaker 1: The killer crept up the stairs that led to Mike's office.
32:25
Speaker 1: They had a shotgun with them, and their heart was racing.
32:28
Speaker 1: They were very nervous about what they were about to do.
32:31
Speaker 1: But Mike Jr., he had to go, and that was
32:34
Speaker 1: all there was to it. So when the killer reached
32:37
Speaker 1: the office door, they barely hesitated before pushing it open
32:40
Speaker 1: and raising their shotgun. Mike was sitting in a chair
32:43
Speaker 1: at his desk, and when the door opened, he turned
32:45
Speaker 1: towards the killer... And when Mike Jr. saw them standing
32:49
Speaker 1: there with a gun pointed at them, his eyes got wide.
32:52
Speaker 1: But the killer fired two blasts before Mike could even move,
32:55
Speaker 1: hitting Mike in the face and in the chest. Mike
32:59
Speaker 1: immediately slumped over in a seat and stopped moving. And
33:02
Speaker 1: the killer ran back down the stairs to the garage.
33:04
Speaker 1: But before they could leave, they froze. Because they could
33:08
Speaker 1: hear footsteps approaching the building's side door from outside. And
33:11
Speaker 1: so the killer instinctively just hid, not really sure what
33:14
Speaker 1: they were going to do. waiting for this person to
33:16
Speaker 1: either come inside or leave. And then once this person
33:20
Speaker 1: did come inside, it was a man, it was Chester,
33:23
Speaker 1: the killer leapt out and shot him right in the back,
33:26
Speaker 1: and he dropped to the ground, dead. And after killing Chester,
33:30
Speaker 1: the killer felt shocked. I mean, they hadn't planned on
33:33
Speaker 1: killing a second person today. Mike was the target. But
33:37
Speaker 1: they also knew they couldn't just wait around for more
33:39
Speaker 1: people to arrive. So the killer at this point left
33:42
Speaker 1: the building and jumped into the truck they had stolen
33:44
Speaker 1: from one of their neighbors. Then they peeled out of
33:47
Speaker 1: the parking lot less than just 10 minutes after they'd arrived.
33:51
Speaker 1: As they drove, they gripped the wheel tightly and they
33:54
Speaker 1: knew they should feel guilty about what they had just done.
33:57
Speaker 1: But instead, all they felt was relief because now they
34:01
Speaker 1: could finally be with the love of their life. It
34:04
Speaker 1: would turn out Michael Smitty Jr. and Chester Roberts were
34:08
Speaker 1: were not murdered by Mike's wife Michelle or Mike Jr.
34:11
Speaker 1: 's cousin Hank or the mob. They were killed by
34:14
Speaker 1: Mike Jr. 's lakeside neighbor and his wife's lover, Sean Fitzpatrick.
34:21
Speaker 1: When Michelle tried to break things off with Sean, she
34:24
Speaker 1: said the only reason she would ever leave Mike was
34:26
Speaker 1: if Mike ended things or if something happened to him. Now,
34:31
Speaker 1: Michelle meant that as an excuse, but Sean took it
34:34
Speaker 1: as a suggestion. So then he murdered Mike Jr., Sean
34:40
Speaker 1: took that green pickup truck from a neighbor who was
34:43
Speaker 1: out of town and then drove it to Wakefield, committed
34:45
Speaker 1: the murders, and then came back. That neighbor who said
34:48
Speaker 1: they saw Sean at his house in Freedom at around
34:51
Speaker 1: 9 a.m. that basically made it impossible for Sean, based
34:54
Speaker 1: on timing, to have gone, committed the murders, and came back. Well,
34:58
Speaker 1: that neighbor called to amend their statement saying that actually
35:02
Speaker 1: they had seen Sean later in the day. And that
35:05
Speaker 1: change created enough time, enough of a window on the
35:08
Speaker 1: day of the murders that it was absolutely possible that
35:11
Speaker 1: Sean could have driven, done the murders, and come back.
35:14
Speaker 1: And so once Sean's alibi fell apart, investigators remembered that
35:18
Speaker 1: stack of condolence cards at Michelle's house. So they went
35:21
Speaker 1: over to see if maybe Sean had sent one. And
35:24
Speaker 1: he had. And when they tested the envelope flap, which
35:27
Speaker 1: he had licked to seal it, they got his DNA.
35:31
Speaker 1: Then they matched it to the very threatening letter that
35:33
Speaker 1: sort of looked like a ransom letter that had been
35:35
Speaker 1: given to the Zimitis, which Sean had put together and
35:39
Speaker 1: sent to them in order to throw police off his
35:41
Speaker 1: trail and make them think that, yeah, the mob was
35:44
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35:49
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