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Long-Delayed NJ Quadruple Murder Trial Finally Begins: Suspect Killed Four Family Members and Torched Two Homes | Crime Alert 6AM 01.14.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now, I'm Drew Nelson.
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  Speaker 1: A long delayed quadruple murder trial is now underway a
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey, with prosecutors and defense attorneys laying out starkly
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  Speaker 1: different versions of how an entire family was wiped out
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  Speaker 1: inside their own home. Paul Kaneiro is on trial in
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  Speaker 1: Monmouth County, accused of killing his younger brother, Keith Kniro,
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  Speaker 1: Keith's wife Jennifer, and their two children, Jesse and Sophia,
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  Speaker 1: during a violent rampage in November twenty eighteen. Prosecutors say
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  Speaker 1: Caniro then set the family's colts Neck mansion on fire
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  Speaker 1: and torched his own home in Ocean Township the same
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  Speaker 1: day to make it look like the family had been
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  Speaker 1: targeted by someone else. In opening statements, Assistant prosecutor Nicole
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  Speaker 1: Wallace described the killings as calculated and driven by money, greed,
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  Speaker 1: and desperation. She told jurors Caniro hunted his family members
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  Speaker 1: inside the darkened house. After shooting his brother outside, he.
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  Speaker 2: Stabbed his niece Sophia seventeen times, her entire forty five
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  Speaker 2: pound body.
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  Speaker 1: Prosecutors say Caniro was facing mounting financial problems and feared
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  Speaker 1: being cut off after Keith discovered tens of thousands of
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  Speaker 1: dollars missing from their co owned businesses. They allege to
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  Speaker 1: the murders were carried out to gain control of a
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  Speaker 1: life insurance policy worth millions. Kniro appeared emotional at times
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  Speaker 1: in court, wiping away tears as the jury heard the details.
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  Speaker 1: The defense forcefully rejected the prosecution's theory. Attorney Monica mast
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  Speaker 1: Alone told jurors Caniro is innocent and did not commit
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  Speaker 1: the murders or set either house on fire.
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  Speaker 2: He certainly did not brutally murder the family members that
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  Speaker 2: you will hear. He loved and cherished and adored so much.
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  Speaker 1: Mast Alone argued that investigators developed tunnel vision early in
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  Speaker 1: the case and failed to fully investigate other potential suspects,
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  Speaker 1: including another brother who also stood to benefit financially.
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  Speaker 2: They did not investigate any other suspects, even obvious ones,
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  Speaker 2: searched for evidence to support their theory.
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  Speaker 1: Caniro has been jailed since his arrest in twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: The trial was delayed for years by legal challenges and
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  Speaker 1: the COVID pandemic. Testimony began with an accountant who spoke
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  Speaker 1: with Keith Kniro the night before the murders and described
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  Speaker 1: him as deeply upset. The trial is expected to last
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  Speaker 1: for weeks, with jurors hearing extensive forensic, financial, and witness
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  Speaker 1: testimony lasting into March. More crime and justice news after this.
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  Speaker 1: A North Texas reality TV husband and wife are now
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  Speaker 1: convicted felons after a federal jury found they ran a
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  Speaker 1: multimillion dollar pyramid scheme that prosecutors say preyed on trust
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  Speaker 1: inside the black community during the pandemic. Marlon and Lashan
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  Speaker 1: de Moore were found guilty in federal court in Sherman, Texas,
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  Speaker 1: of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering.
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  Speaker 1: Prosecutors say the couple defrauded more than ten thousand people nationwide,
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  Speaker 1: pulling in more than twenty five million dollars through their program,
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  Speaker 1: known as Blessings in No Time or Bent. The Moors
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  Speaker 1: once appeared on the reality TV show Family or Fiance,
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  Speaker 1: which prosecutors say helped them build credibility while marketing the
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  Speaker 1: scheme out of their prosper Texas home during the COVID
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  Speaker 1: nineteen pandemic. Victims say the program was pitched as a
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  Speaker 1: community based way to survive financial hardship. Participants were told
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  Speaker 1: their money was guaranteed and that refunds would be issued
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  Speaker 1: if they were not satisfied. Federal investigators say neither promise
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  Speaker 1: was true.
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  Speaker 3: We were just played it. We would play with our feelings.
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  Speaker 3: We will promise the money. We didn't get it.
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  Speaker 1: One of the victims, Rosetta Fleming, says she and her
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  Speaker 1: husband invested more than six thousand dollars. She spoke to
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  Speaker 1: KXAS about the emotional toll.
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  Speaker 3: They were African Americans as well, and they were taking
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  Speaker 3: advantage of us. They pacifically stated, no other race, no
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  Speaker 3: other group of people, no social media.
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  Speaker 1: Fleming says. Participants did not see the program as a risk.
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  Speaker 3: We didn't look at it as like it was a gambo.
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  Speaker 3: We look at it like it was something out there
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  Speaker 3: that could help us, you know, pay the bills, feed
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  Speaker 3: out children.
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  Speaker 1: According to the Department of Justice, the Moor's structured bent
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  Speaker 1: as a classic pyramid scheme, using so called playing boards,
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  Speaker 1: where participants had to recruit new members to move up
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  Speaker 1: and receive payouts. Prosecutors say the couple placed themselves in
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  Speaker 1: positions that guaranteed they collected the largest payments, while most
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  Speaker 1: participants lost everything, an attorney for Marlon Moore told kxas
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  Speaker 1: the couple tried to fix the program after it grew
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  Speaker 1: out of control. The Moors now face potential decades in
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  Speaker 1: federal prison when they are senates later this year. They're
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  Speaker 1: currently being held in the Fennin County Jail. Ripples through
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  Speaker 1: a small North Carolina town after its police chief is
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  Speaker 1: jailed on child sex charges, with prosecutors detailing allegations involving
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  Speaker 1: secret photos taken while a child slept. Gregory Warren, chief
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  Speaker 1: of Newton Grove Police Department, is behind bars facing seven felonies,
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  Speaker 1: including indecent liberties with the child and multiple counts of
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  Speaker 1: felony secret peeping. State Investigators say the alleged crimes involve
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  Speaker 1: a juvenile girl and date back to twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: According to arrest warrens, Warren is accused of going into
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  Speaker 1: the child's bedroom and taking explicit photographs while she was asleep.
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  Speaker 1: During a court hearing, special prosecutor Donnad Rainwater described the
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  Speaker 1: evidence in blunt terms.
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  Speaker 4: The photographs were held in a hidden folder. All the
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  Speaker 4: defendants found she was very upset obviously when she saw photos,
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  Speaker 4: Investigators say additional examination of Warren's devices revealed images tied
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  Speaker 4: to the alleyations, along with apps prosecutors described as having
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  Speaker 4: no legitimate purpose.
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  Speaker 1: The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation launched the investigation
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  Speaker 1: at the requests of the Sampson County Sheriff's office after
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  Speaker 1: deputies received the initial allegations. SBI agents arrested Warren on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: The arrest has stunned residence in Newton Grove, which is
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  Speaker 1: a small town in Sampson County. One of those residents
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  Speaker 1: is Brandy Melby, speaking to WNCN, shocked disappointment.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, most people didn't even know we had a
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  Speaker 5: new group police format, but he was good people to If.
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  Speaker 3: He did what he did, then he needs.
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  Speaker 1: To pay for it. Warren has served as Newton Grove's
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  Speaker 1: police chief since twenty nineteen. In twenty twenty one, he
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  Speaker 1: shot a rape and kidnapping suspect during a confrontation. That
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  Speaker 1: shooting was later ruled justified by the district attorney. During
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  Speaker 1: Warren's first court appearance, Judge Robert Gilmour denied bond.
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  Speaker 5: I have some seiers concerns as to whether this time
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  Speaker 5: under these facs, this earliest age of proceeding. I don't
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  Speaker 5: think at this time the presumption has been rebutted.
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  Speaker 1: Town officials announced Warren has been suspended without pay while
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  Speaker 1: the case moves forward, and say police operations will continue
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  Speaker 1: without interruption. Warren remains held at the Sampson County Detention
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  Speaker 1: Center as the investigation continues. For the latest crime and
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  Speaker 1: podcast app with this crime alert. I'm Drew Nelson.