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- 0:05Speaker 1: Prime Stories with Nancy Grace. Yeah, my name is Jeborimaut
- 0:11Speaker 1: the police department. About eleven am this morning on a
- 0:17Speaker 1: police department received information from Nina County nine one regarding
- 0:21Speaker 1: a man who had entered a business in Chadwick's, New York.
- 0:26Speaker 1: He had had a conversation with a family member and
- 0:30Speaker 1: he the information he gave to the family member was
- 0:36Speaker 1: alarming to him. It was actually his brother. His brother
- 0:40Speaker 1: then called nine one one to relay information that he
- 0:44Speaker 1: was under the impression that homicide had occurred on Belmont
- 0:51Speaker 1: Street in the city of Rome. You are hearing a
- 0:53Speaker 1: live press conference out of Rome, New York covered by
- 0:57Speaker 1: wukt V. First of all, again I starts talking to
- 1:02Speaker 1: apparently his brother at a family business, and whatever he
- 1:05Speaker 1: tells the brother makes the brother call nine one one.
- 1:11Speaker 1: I Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. Thank you for
- 1:14Speaker 1: being with us. You know I don't get it before
- 1:17Speaker 1: I go any further into the fact, straight out to
- 1:19Speaker 1: doctor Bethany Marshall, psychoanalyst out of la You know, Bethany,
- 1:23Speaker 1: I know you see it all. You know, all kemped
- 1:25Speaker 1: up in your luxury pad. They're in Beverly Hills. I mean,
- 1:29Speaker 1: I've never felt so bad about myself as when I
- 1:31Speaker 1: walked down the street. I just wanted to see what
- 1:33Speaker 1: Rodeo drive I eat Rodeo drive was. I've never seen
- 1:39Speaker 1: so many tall, skinny, perfectly blonde, straight teeth, big fake
- 1:44Speaker 1: boob women in my life. I felt awful. You know,
- 1:48Speaker 1: if I'd had a car out there, I would have
- 1:50Speaker 1: gone and hidden in it. The last thing I could
- 1:52Speaker 1: do is go into one of those stores where you
- 1:54Speaker 1: pay three hundred dollars for a skirt that you can
- 1:57Speaker 1: put one leg into. I mean, I don't know how
- 1:59Speaker 1: you do it. So my point is, I'm sure you've
- 2:01Speaker 1: heard it all, But what does it say to you
- 2:03Speaker 1: when a guy goes into like a family owned business
- 2:07Speaker 1: and starts yaking to the point his own brother calls
- 2:11Speaker 1: nine one wood, I'm an idiot. I believe he went
- 2:14Speaker 1: with his two year old, four year old and five
- 2:16Speaker 1: year old Nancy. It tells me that, as is the
- 2:21Speaker 1: case with most criminals, he is kind of stupid. I mean,
- 2:26Speaker 1: he has no cause and effects thinking, he does not
- 2:29Speaker 1: have a grasp on the big picture to commit the crime.
- 2:32Speaker 1: He begins to try to cover up the story by
- 2:36Speaker 1: running straight to his brother's business and telling him a
- 2:38Speaker 1: story that absolutely makes no sense at all. And the
- 2:42Speaker 1: sad thing is that this perpetrator probably believed the story
- 2:47Speaker 1: he was telling by the time he told it, and
- 2:49Speaker 1: he thought that his brother would believe him too. But
- 2:51Speaker 1: we see this with criminals, right. They have a hard
- 2:54Speaker 1: time anticipating that other people will have insight into the
- 2:58Speaker 1: stupidity of their actions. Speak of the police press conference.
- 3:01Speaker 1: Now you know there's a glaring, a glaring let me
- 3:05Speaker 1: just say clue. Wendy Patrick, California Prosecutor Extraordinaire, author of
- 3:11Speaker 1: red Flags on Amazon. Here's a red flag for you, Andy.
- 3:15Speaker 1: He shows up at the family business with all of
- 3:17Speaker 1: his children, but one person is clearly missing. You've got
- 3:21Speaker 1: the dad, You've got all the children. Uh, where's mommy?
- 3:26Speaker 1: Take a listen to more of that police presser and
- 3:29Speaker 1: found some circumstances that are suspicious to us and indicative
- 3:34Speaker 1: of the aftermath of a serious crime. There was no
- 3:39Speaker 1: one home at that time. As a result of that
- 3:43Speaker 1: initial response, in subsequent investigations, several people have been interviewed,
- 3:48Speaker 1: including a gentleman that is known as Jason Tifoglio, and
- 3:58Speaker 1: we are questioning him at this time regarding the disappearance
- 4:01Speaker 1: and what we believed to be the homicide of Kerry
- 4:04Speaker 1: Lee l. I mean, why did they talk like that.
- 4:09Speaker 1: I've got to ask you that, Wendy Patrick. They say,
- 4:11Speaker 1: circumstances indicative of a serious crime. Translation. We found the
- 4:16Speaker 1: house that looked like it was ransacked. There was blood everywhere,
- 4:19Speaker 1: the furniture was upside down, clearly, there was a sign
- 4:22Speaker 1: of a struggle, and there was a knife lying on
- 4:25Speaker 1: the kitchen table dripping blood. Instead, they say circumstances indicative
- 4:29Speaker 1: of a serious crime. Okay, explain that cop. Talk to me. Hey, look,
- 4:33Speaker 1: I've had to do it myself before. But why do
- 4:35Speaker 1: they talk like that, Wendy. Yeah. Part of the same
- 4:37Speaker 1: reason that we have to talk like that sometimes impressors
- 4:40Speaker 1: is it's this pre trial publicity is wanting to make
- 4:42Speaker 1: sure that the defendant gets a fair trial and that
- 4:44Speaker 1: everybody's innocent until proven guilty. And it's hard to restrain
- 4:47Speaker 1: ourselves when we know what the facts are and we
- 4:50Speaker 1: know how bad the circumstantial evidence looks. To sort of
- 4:52Speaker 1: sanitize it and make it clinical enough to where you're
- 4:55Speaker 1: actually able to talk to the press about it and
- 4:57Speaker 1: not be accused of attempting to prejudice an upcoming y pool.
- 5:01Speaker 1: And you're right about the you know, coming into this business.
- 5:03Speaker 1: I gotta laugh though, Nancy, you talk about these blonde
- 5:05Speaker 1: perfect you are beautiful, so it's it's hard to hear
- 5:08Speaker 1: you say that you would go and hide in your car.
- 5:10Speaker 1: But be that as it may, be, that as it
- 5:12Speaker 1: may When you do have the family coming into the
- 5:15Speaker 1: store all together like that, you know, family members, sometimes
- 5:19Speaker 1: we say willful blindness. You don't want to see that
- 5:21Speaker 1: a loved one is actually culpable of committing a crime
- 5:23Speaker 1: like this. On the other hand, when the emotional dynamics
- 5:27Speaker 1: change to such an extent that you cannot deny that
- 5:30Speaker 1: somebody's absence leads to some nefarious conclusion, that's also very telling,
- 5:35Speaker 1: and that no doubt explains why the brother called the police.
- 5:37Speaker 1: Want to go to crime online dot Com investigative reporter
- 5:41Speaker 1: Levi Page Levi, I want to start this at the
- 5:45Speaker 1: very beginning, okay, because I got carried away with him
- 5:47Speaker 1: sauntering over to the family business and yacking to the
- 5:52Speaker 1: extent that the brother calls nine one one, Okay. I
- 5:55Speaker 1: want to start at the beginning, the who, what, where, when, why?
- 6:00Speaker 1: And then I'll take it from there. Who is this
- 6:02Speaker 1: guy they keep talking about? Rome? Is Rome New York
- 6:04Speaker 1: and they every state has a Rome. There's a Rome Georgia.
- 6:08Speaker 1: They refer to themselves as Romans. Okay, as do I.
- 6:11Speaker 1: But this is Rome, New York. What do we know
- 6:15Speaker 1: about Rome, New York? What do you know about this
- 6:18Speaker 1: scenario where this guy, Jason Devoglio goes into the family
- 6:23Speaker 1: business and essentially starts bracket. So this is about four
- 6:26Speaker 1: and a half hours north of New York City and
- 6:29Speaker 1: where they live in Rome, New York. It's actually a
- 6:31Speaker 1: very quaint home. The neighborhood is lined with trees. It
- 6:36Speaker 1: seems very quiet and peaceful, not something that you not
- 6:40Speaker 1: a place where you would think of brutal murder would
- 6:42Speaker 1: go down. But that is what police think happened. Okay,
- 6:44Speaker 1: wait wait wait wa wa wa wa wa. You got
- 6:47Speaker 1: me at tree lined Okay, because okay, doctor Bethany Marshall,
- 6:53Speaker 1: I know you hate when I do this, but I'm
- 6:54Speaker 1: going back in time to where I grew up. They
- 6:58Speaker 1: were only about three or four houses max in you know,
- 7:04Speaker 1: two hundred acres, and it was tree lined, all right.
- 7:08Speaker 1: It was a red dirt road and it was awesome.
- 7:14Speaker 1: We could ride our bikes after school as long as
- 7:17Speaker 1: we wanted. We could, you know, slash through creeks and streams.
- 7:23Speaker 1: We could be able to pinestraw forts and yes, throw
- 7:26Speaker 1: pine cones at each other. I mean our dogs. We
- 7:30Speaker 1: could run around with them. I mean we just when
- 7:33Speaker 1: I hear tree line, now I know, and I'm going
- 7:36Speaker 1: to go back to leave my page on this. We
- 7:37Speaker 1: say this tree line, it sounds like kind of a
- 7:39Speaker 1: subdivision where trees are intentionally built along the street. But
- 7:43Speaker 1: it sounds so like I want to go there. I
- 7:48Speaker 1: just want to go late in somebody's hammock in the backyard,
- 7:50Speaker 1: and she'll acts, that's what it sounds like. And it's
- 7:53Speaker 1: hard for people to see. That's the problem at trial,
- 7:55Speaker 1: which I'll circle back to Wendy Patrick, n and Karen Smith.
- 7:59Speaker 1: But it's hard to tell you in that there's a
- 8:02Speaker 1: potential murder down the street. In your quote tree line neighborhood,
- 8:06Speaker 1: Levi Page is describing. And yet Nancy, when you look
- 8:09Speaker 1: at the profile of men who kill, one of the
- 8:13Speaker 1: things you read is that they are usually middle aged
- 8:17Speaker 1: family men to four children in suburbs, and they drive
- 8:23Speaker 1: family vehicles. That's one of the things that always stick.
- 8:28Speaker 1: It sounds like you're describing David Lynch. Go ahead, can
- 8:31Speaker 1: you tell me so? The profile is of a person
- 8:35Speaker 1: who lives in an idelic neighborhood. It is not some
- 8:39Speaker 1: guy lurking on the street corner in a trench coat.
- 8:42Speaker 1: It's not a man who's so antisocial that he never
- 8:45Speaker 1: gets married, never has children. These men have a veneer
- 8:49Speaker 1: of assability and sociability. They can be ministers, parmickchanics, policemen,
- 8:55Speaker 1: but Nancy, they almost always have wives and children, murderers too,
- 9:01Speaker 1: So they are an idea. Like you know, you're totally
- 9:04Speaker 1: freaking me out as usual, doctor Bethany, at least for
- 9:08Speaker 1: what's so far anyway, you haven't tied it to Santo masochism.
- 9:11Speaker 1: I'm just waiting on that. But Wendy Patrick right now,
- 9:15Speaker 1: California prosecutor, author of Red Flags on Amazon, she's absolutely
- 9:20Speaker 1: right as usual. You know, I wish I could catch
- 9:22Speaker 1: her being wrong just once, but so far I haven't.
- 9:26Speaker 1: Wendy Patrick, you know that reminds me of what she's saying,
- 9:29Speaker 1: Doctor Bethany, BTK Treeline neighborhood, wife, children, he was a
- 9:35Speaker 1: dog catcher, and a big deal in his church. Wendy. Yeah,
- 9:39Speaker 1: and you know you talk about this. This is the
- 9:40Speaker 1: the axe murderer next door. This is the exact same
- 9:44Speaker 1: circumstance that we see repeatedly where when you actually look
- 9:48Speaker 1: below the surface, even though they have jobs and they
- 9:51Speaker 1: have wives and they have kids, when you look below
- 9:53Speaker 1: the surface, there are still those signs of psychopathy. You know,
- 9:57Speaker 1: when doctor Bethany would know more than I about the
- 9:59Speaker 1: actual the clinical signs that the family members would see,
- 10:03Speaker 1: but they've got to see them. There's no way that
- 10:05Speaker 1: you have just this. You know, sometimes they even do
- 10:08Speaker 1: go to church, but there's no fruit. There's no outward
- 10:11Speaker 1: sense that this is a good person. In fact, quite
- 10:13Speaker 1: to the contrary, when you look and actually talk to
- 10:16Speaker 1: the co workers, to the family members, to the wife,
- 10:18Speaker 1: all of those signs are there. But again unless the
- 10:20Speaker 1: something actually happens, or I should say until until something
- 10:24Speaker 1: actually happens, you almost want to look the other way
- 10:26Speaker 1: and mute these red flags to where they become. You know,
- 10:29Speaker 1: you're wearing rose colored glasses instead of your reading glasses.
- 10:33Speaker 1: And that's why it's not that you don't see them,
- 10:34Speaker 1: but you don't report them. Crime stories with Nancy Grace No.
- 10:54Speaker 1: Police say Jason Diavolio went to his brother's business in
- 10:57Speaker 1: Chadwick's Monday morning along with him and Karen Le's three
- 11:01Speaker 1: young children. After that, police say Jason's brother called nine
- 11:04Speaker 1: one one. Jason shared alarming information that a homicide may
- 11:09Speaker 1: have occurred on Belmont Street. Welcome back, everybody, I mean it.
- 11:11Speaker 1: See Grace. This his crime stories. A an Upstate suburban
- 11:16Speaker 1: dad of three goes to the family business and talks
- 11:19Speaker 1: in a way that makes his own brother call nine
- 11:22Speaker 1: one one. He's got his three children in tow with him.
- 11:26Speaker 1: They're all very, very young. Someone is obviously missing. It's
- 11:30Speaker 1: like cutting a head off a body in the church
- 11:32Speaker 1: directory picture. Mommy is gone. Joining me right now, Wendy Patrick,
- 11:36Speaker 1: California prosecutor, author of Read Flags on Amazon, doctor Bethany Marshall,
- 11:42Speaker 1: renowned psychoanalysts out of La joining me, really well known
- 11:49Speaker 1: forensic expert Karen Smith, founder of Bare Bones Consulting. But
- 11:55Speaker 1: right now, to Crimeline dot Com investigative reporter Levi Page,
- 11:59Speaker 1: we keep saying family business, family business, family business. What
- 12:01Speaker 1: can you tell me about that his brother worked in
- 12:03Speaker 1: an auto shop and after police believe that he killed
- 12:08Speaker 1: his wife. He showed up at this auto shop and
- 12:11Speaker 1: started talking to his brother about how he says, his wife,
- 12:14Speaker 1: twenty eight year old Carolite Davaglio, killed herself, and he
- 12:19Speaker 1: cleaned up the scene the home, took the weapon that
- 12:23Speaker 1: she used and disposed of it, and then threw her
- 12:26Speaker 1: body away in a dumpster. That's what he told his brother.
- 12:29Speaker 1: His brother was understandably very alarmed, and he picked up
- 12:33Speaker 1: the telephone and he called nine one one. Hey, stop
- 12:35Speaker 1: right there, stop right there. Whoa whoa, whoa, whoa whoa.
- 12:38Speaker 1: I feel like I'm drinking out of a fire, Hijah
- 12:40Speaker 1: Leavi page. Okay. He goes, did you say it's auto
- 12:43Speaker 1: salvage or what kind of family business is it? It's
- 12:45Speaker 1: an auto shop. I think it's like a repair shop,
- 12:47Speaker 1: repair shop, Okay. So he goes in with this shildren
- 12:49Speaker 1: and he says what he says, that his wife killed herself,
- 12:52Speaker 1: that she shot herself, and that he cleaned up the home,
- 12:56Speaker 1: got rid of the gun, through it in a canal,
- 12:59Speaker 1: and then to her body and put it in a dumpster.
- 13:02Speaker 1: And then his brother called nine one, and that's when
- 13:05Speaker 1: police showed up and arrested him as a matter of fact,
- 13:07Speaker 1: take a listen to our friend at Eyewitness News, Ben Dennis.
- 13:12Speaker 1: Approximately shortly after eight o'clock our dive team arrived set
- 13:16Speaker 1: up on the shore of the Bard's Canal, and I
- 13:19Speaker 1: believe around nine am or shortly thereafter, the weapon was recovered.
- 13:23Speaker 1: It was a relatively new weapon, hadn't been in the
- 13:26Speaker 1: water very long. It is evidence believed to be part
- 13:29Speaker 1: of their case. Therefore, we recovered it, secured it, and
- 13:32Speaker 1: then obviously the evidence was transferred to the Rome Police Department. Wow,
- 13:36Speaker 1: it's just like you said, Levi Page. I want to
- 13:38Speaker 1: go straight out to Karen Smith, forensics expert. I mean,
- 13:41Speaker 1: it's usually a simple matter of comparing ballistics one gun
- 13:47Speaker 1: to a bullet five, but in this case there's no
- 13:51Speaker 1: body yet anyway. So the other thing is, did you
- 13:56Speaker 1: hear what he said? They had to bring out a dog.
- 14:00Speaker 1: I've team now before I had the twins. I have
- 14:03Speaker 1: not done this since I had the twins. They've got
- 14:06Speaker 1: on a lot of snorkeling and a lot of deep
- 14:08Speaker 1: water snorkeling together, where there's devices that you can actually
- 14:12Speaker 1: go down underwater and you're a snorkel tube will close
- 14:16Speaker 1: and you can stay under water, you know, as long
- 14:18Speaker 1: as you haul your breath. But no diving. No diving
- 14:23Speaker 1: since the twins came. But can I tell you, in
- 14:26Speaker 1: a lake such as this, it's really hard to see
- 14:33Speaker 1: due to sediment on the bottom of the lake. But
- 14:35Speaker 1: they manage to find a gun. How hard is that,
- 14:40Speaker 1: Karen Smith? It's not easy, and you're right, the visibility
- 14:43Speaker 1: would be extraordinarily limited. You're dealing with touch and feel here.
- 14:47Speaker 1: It's not going to be so much lake water. You know,
- 14:49Speaker 1: we've all seen lakes, We've all most of us have
- 14:52Speaker 1: been swimming in lakes. It's not you know, I'm always
- 14:54Speaker 1: worried about a turtle or something, you know, pinching me
- 14:57Speaker 1: or coming up and swimming around me. That's why I
- 14:59Speaker 1: don't like lakes when they But when you're looking for
- 15:01Speaker 1: an item such as a gun or a rifle or
- 15:03Speaker 1: whatever was used, it's touch and feel and you use
- 15:05Speaker 1: a grid search. You start in one area, you flag it,
- 15:08Speaker 1: you put out lines if you have to, you follow
- 15:10Speaker 1: those lines, and you literally go along the bottom and
- 15:13Speaker 1: you feel for any items. And apparently they were very
- 15:16Speaker 1: successful and within a couple of hours they found the gun.
- 15:20Speaker 1: So kudos to them. They did a great job. So
- 15:22Speaker 1: back to the scene. You got to figure out the
- 15:24Speaker 1: scene of what we think is a crime. You got
- 15:27Speaker 1: to find out if there are any bullets there, where
- 15:29Speaker 1: is the Mom's just this some crazy story he's come
- 15:33Speaker 1: up with. Back to Levi page and I hear you
- 15:35Speaker 1: say he told his brother that his wife, Kia Lee,
- 15:40Speaker 1: committed suicide, that she shot herself dead. That what he said. Yes,
- 15:44Speaker 1: that's what he told his brother. And he also told
- 15:46Speaker 1: law enforcement that as well. Okay. And then he said
- 15:49Speaker 1: that not only did she kill herself, that he then
- 15:54Speaker 1: cleaned up the scene and hid the body. And I
- 15:56Speaker 1: get that right, Levi, Yes, and hid the gun through
- 15:59Speaker 1: the gun in the canal. And law enforcement say when
- 16:03Speaker 1: they found that gun in the canal that they examined
- 16:07Speaker 1: it and it appeared that it had not been in
- 16:09Speaker 1: the canal very long at all. Okay, So explain something
- 16:12Speaker 1: to me, doctor Bethany Marshall. If somebody commits suicide or
- 16:15Speaker 1: somebody's your upstad I got Jackie Howard here in the studio.
- 16:18Speaker 1: No offense, Jackie, But if you kill over, I'm not
- 16:20Speaker 1: going to go hide your body in a dump. Thank
- 16:24Speaker 1: You're welcome, and you get rid of whatever you're drinking
- 16:28Speaker 1: in that cup right there, that massive, gigantic cup. I
- 16:31Speaker 1: don't know what's saying there A strong suspicions, but I'm
- 16:34Speaker 1: not going to try to quote get rid of the evidence,
- 16:36Speaker 1: doctor Bethany. That sounds like a load of Let me
- 16:39Speaker 1: just say b S technical legal term. You know. The
- 16:43Speaker 1: only explanation I can go back to, Nancy is something
- 16:46Speaker 1: I've said so many times on your show before. We
- 16:49Speaker 1: know in the field of psychology that sociopaths are born
- 16:54Speaker 1: with less anxiety than the rest of the population, and
- 16:59Speaker 1: because they have low levels of anxiety, they never think
- 17:02Speaker 1: they're going to get caught and they make stupid decisions.
- 17:05Speaker 1: Anxiety is what causes the conscience to form, Like when
- 17:09Speaker 1: we're little and we do something bad and then we're
- 17:11Speaker 1: afraid that mommy will be mad at us and mommy
- 17:14Speaker 1: will withdraw her love. Many of these interactions with our
- 17:17Speaker 1: mothers throughout development cause the conscience to form. Sociopaths miss
- 17:23Speaker 1: out on this whole process because they have low levels
- 17:25Speaker 1: of anxiety about getting into trouble, so they would do
- 17:29Speaker 1: something like clean up the scene, tell a big fat
- 17:33Speaker 1: lie about it, think that nobody will see through because
- 17:36Speaker 1: they don't really feel the weight of what they've done.
- 17:40Speaker 1: You and I would be terrible. First of all, we
- 17:42Speaker 1: wouldn't do it, But secondly we would be so terrified.
- 17:46Speaker 1: If I walk down the street or I'm driving my
- 17:47Speaker 1: car and I see a police officer, I think I've
- 17:49Speaker 1: done something wrong. I mean, my anxiety level is high
- 17:51Speaker 1: about these kinds of things. The sociopath has no anxiety
- 17:55Speaker 1: at all. Another issue, dot do Bethany Marshall. He comes
- 17:59Speaker 1: in and tells this to his brother, like to see
- 18:02Speaker 1: actually think the brother is going to cover for him
- 18:05Speaker 1: in an alleged homicide of his sister in law, the
- 18:08Speaker 1: mother of these three little children. I mean, you know
- 18:11Speaker 1: how all the children are, right, Massilie two, four and five?
- 18:15Speaker 1: Is my understanding? Yeah, Nancy. It could be one of
- 18:17Speaker 1: two things or bulls. One is that he's beginning to
- 18:21Speaker 1: build a narrative to cover the crime. The other is
- 18:25Speaker 1: that he's so pleased with himself he wants to go
- 18:28Speaker 1: and break about it. My cat killed the mouse the
- 18:30Speaker 1: other day, brought the mouse in, started throwing it around.
- 18:33Speaker 1: The cat looked so fat and happy that he brought
- 18:36Speaker 1: me this gift that he had killed mouse. I somehow.
- 18:39Speaker 1: I sometimes think sociopaths feel like that after they've killed somebody,
- 18:44Speaker 1: that they kind of there's a quality of gloating, there's
- 18:46Speaker 1: a quality of having enjoyed the experience. And I understand
- 18:51Speaker 1: these two were going through a divorce, so there could
- 18:55Speaker 1: be this additional motive of not wanting to divide assets
- 18:58Speaker 1: and I'm not wanting the white today, and then a
- 19:02Speaker 1: period of relief after having killed her. So then he
- 19:05Speaker 1: goes and breaks to the brother. Hi, guys, Nancy Grace
- 19:14Speaker 1: here a beautiful mom of two. In fact, I call
- 19:18Speaker 1: her a Reese Witherspoon look alike because in a lot
- 19:21Speaker 1: of pictures that's exactly who she looks like. The mother
- 19:24Speaker 1: of two beautiful little children, including an eight year old
- 19:27Speaker 1: little girl, is found dead in a bloody bathtub a
- 19:32Speaker 1: slip and fall, and her eight year old daughter Anna
- 19:36Speaker 1: is the one that found her. This Saturday, six o'clock Eastern,
- 19:41Speaker 1: five Central on Oxygen Injuice with Nancy Grace, we investigate
- 19:47Speaker 1: the death of Shelley Danishevsky because I do not believe
- 19:54Speaker 1: this was a slip and fall, and from what I
- 19:57Speaker 1: can see, there has been a grave injustice on many levels.
- 20:03Speaker 1: Please join us in a search for the truth. This Saturday,
- 20:09Speaker 1: six pm Eastern, five Central Injustice with Nancy Grace. Thanks guys,
- 20:20Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. We are still conducting interviews
- 20:29Speaker 1: with him and we are trying to locate the location
- 20:36Speaker 1: where we believe that he placed her body. Where we
- 20:40Speaker 1: would like to help from the public is information is
- 20:43Speaker 1: being given to us that her body may have been
- 20:45Speaker 1: placed in a dumpster somewhere within the city of Rome.
- 20:49Speaker 1: We had patrols actively checking every dumpster that we could
- 20:52Speaker 1: come across in the city. However, if there is a
- 20:55Speaker 1: business out there or people live in a housing development
- 20:59Speaker 1: that of dumpsters, if they're comfortable looking at those dumpsters
- 21:05Speaker 1: in case we missed it, and if they find anything
- 21:07Speaker 1: that's suspicious in nature at all, please do not touch it.
- 21:10Speaker 1: Call ther Olle Police Department right away. You are hearing
- 21:13Speaker 1: a police press conference. Square cops are begging people to
- 21:16Speaker 1: search for this young mom, Kirelee Develio's body. Can you
- 21:21Speaker 1: imagine her family must just be horrified and one day
- 21:25Speaker 1: what her children, who are all under a five and
- 21:27Speaker 1: under are gonna look at all this and reread it online.
- 21:32Speaker 1: Where everyone's being asked to search for their mother's body. Oh,
- 21:40Speaker 1: they're searching dumpsters, They're searching trash cans, begging people to
- 21:45Speaker 1: look for her, this gorgeous young mom of three. In
- 21:51Speaker 1: the meanwhile, the husband, Jason Devilio, says his wife, his
- 21:56Speaker 1: young wife committed suicide, and he took it upon himself
- 22:01Speaker 1: to clean up the sane dispose of her suicide weapon.
- 22:05Speaker 1: Straight out to Karen smith Ensi, expert founder of Beer
- 22:08Speaker 1: Bones Consulting, you know, searching a landfill a dump is
- 22:13Speaker 1: a daunting, overwhelming task. I just can't describe it. I
- 22:18Speaker 1: mean people that go out and search, if they're not
- 22:20Speaker 1: in a hazmat suit, they actually will pass out from
- 22:24Speaker 1: the fumes. Explain how you go about searching a dump
- 22:29Speaker 1: it is. I've done it a number of times, one
- 22:32Speaker 1: for a six month old, maybe another for a torso,
- 22:35Speaker 1: and other times for murder weapons, so I can tell
- 22:38Speaker 1: you that you're right. It is a sensory overload experience
- 22:42Speaker 1: in every aspect. It's hot. You know, there's vultures and
- 22:46Speaker 1: seagulls picking up god knows what and flying off with it,
- 22:50Speaker 1: and you are dealing with an enormous amount of refuse.
- 22:53Speaker 1: The thing about landfills, though, is that they're actually gritted out,
- 22:57Speaker 1: and they're a fairly organized place. It's not like trash
- 23:00Speaker 1: is just randomly dumped there. So depending on where apparently
- 23:05Speaker 1: he placed her body, they're going to follow that truck
- 23:08Speaker 1: that is scheduled to pick up that dumpster. That truck
- 23:11Speaker 1: has then scheduled to dump in a certain place in
- 23:13Speaker 1: that landfill. So they're not dealing with, you know, a
- 23:16Speaker 1: square mile worth of landfill trash. They're going to be
- 23:19Speaker 1: dealing with maybe a few tennis courts sized area. Even
- 23:23Speaker 1: though that is still an ungodly amount of trash to
- 23:27Speaker 1: go through, it does narrow down the possibilities of finding her.
- 23:30Speaker 1: It's just so overwhelming. I remember the first time I
- 23:33Speaker 1: was involved with a landfill, a dump search. It is overwhelming.
- 23:42Speaker 1: That leads me to this heartbreaking conclusion. Here at the
- 23:46Speaker 1: Ava landfill where Rome Police believe, with the assistance of
- 23:49Speaker 1: State Police cadaver dogs, they have found the body of
- 23:52Speaker 1: thirty two year old Carrie. Lead Devolio of Rome will
- 23:55Speaker 1: take a look at the activity behind me. Oft in
- 23:57Speaker 1: the distance, you might be able to see a black
- 23:59Speaker 1: and white Rome police cruiser a little to the left
- 24:02Speaker 1: of that as a minivan which could be a coroner's van,
- 24:06Speaker 1: but we're simply not close enough to make that determination
- 24:10Speaker 1: for sure. But again, police still on the scene here
- 24:13Speaker 1: at the Ava landfill. You're hearing from our friend at
- 24:16Speaker 1: w KTV. That's Jolene Ferris straight out to crime online
- 24:19Speaker 1: dot Com investigative reporter at levipage. What can you tell
- 24:22Speaker 1: me about the landfill and how they found the body.
- 24:27Speaker 1: We're talking about the body of Kerley Devilio, the mother
- 24:31Speaker 1: of three. Before they found the body, Jason Devoglio actually
- 24:37Speaker 1: led police to the dumpster where he said he put
- 24:40Speaker 1: his wife, but the sanitation workers had transported it to
- 24:44Speaker 1: the landfill, and that's when they had to go to
- 24:46Speaker 1: the landfill and sift through everything to find her body,
- 24:50Speaker 1: which was wrapped in a bedsheet when they found it.
- 24:53Speaker 1: With me Levipage, crime online dot Com investigative reporter, I'm
- 24:57Speaker 1: looking at the video of the search. First, I see there,
- 25:01Speaker 1: as you described, tree lined neighborhood. It looks like the
- 25:05Speaker 1: perfect place to raise children. And then the very next
- 25:08Speaker 1: thing you see is a giant landfield. I mean how tall,
- 25:12Speaker 1: how many feet highs that trash lead It's very high,
- 25:15Speaker 1: and it's just sickening to think about and law enforcement
- 25:20Speaker 1: has said, whatever happened in that home, that the children two,
- 25:24Speaker 1: four and five were there in the home when it happened,
- 25:28Speaker 1: and that's the most tragic aspect of this case, besides
- 25:32Speaker 1: what happened, that the children were there and they could
- 25:35Speaker 1: have possibly witnessed it well. As a matter of fact,
- 25:38Speaker 1: take a listen to Jason Palace at w KTV. Autopsy
- 25:41Speaker 1: could help police learn more about how the role mother
- 25:44Speaker 1: of three died. It could also lead to more charges
- 25:47Speaker 1: for her husband at your top story here on this
- 25:49Speaker 1: Wednesday afternoon. The body of Carrie Lee the Bolo was
- 25:53Speaker 1: uncovered on Tuesday at the Adle Landfill, Nita County. Sheriff's
- 25:57Speaker 1: dive team found a long gun in the Bars Canal
- 25:59Speaker 1: under the Mill Stry Bridge in Rome. Carry Lee and
- 26:01Speaker 1: her husband, Jason Devolio. We're going through a divorce now,
- 26:05Speaker 1: police say. Jason began giving various versions of events. The
- 26:08Speaker 1: couple's daughters, ages two, four and five years old, are
- 26:11Speaker 1: safe in the care of relatives. It's still unknown though,
- 26:13Speaker 1: what if anything, they witnessed. Well, you know, as Levi
- 26:17Speaker 1: Page Crime online dot Com investigative reporter is describing the
- 26:20Speaker 1: children of five and under I mean, doctor Bethany Marshall,
- 26:23Speaker 1: do you remember the case of Susan Powell, her husband
- 26:27Speaker 1: Josh Powell. Susan goes missing in the middle of the night.
- 26:30Speaker 1: It's freezing cold outside. Josh Powell, the husband, says that
- 26:34Speaker 1: he's taken the boys spur of the moment camping. It's freezing,
- 26:38Speaker 1: there's snow on the ground. When asked to describe what
- 26:41Speaker 1: happened that night, the children really couldn't say much, but
- 26:45Speaker 1: they drew pictures of themgoing camping and mommy is in
- 26:49Speaker 1: the car trunk. Nancy, this sounds like so many other
- 26:54Speaker 1: stories you've covered where father takes underaged children on some
- 27:00Speaker 1: crazy wild trip as a cover for the fact that
- 27:05Speaker 1: he's killed his wife. I mean, doesn't this sounds have
- 27:07Speaker 1: a familiar ring to it, and there's poor children being
- 27:11Speaker 1: dread out into the wilderness. You know, one of the
- 27:15Speaker 1: things we see in domestic homicides is that there is
- 27:19Speaker 1: a period of domestic violence, generally that precedes the crime,
- 27:23Speaker 1: and in the midst of these domestic incidents that the
- 27:26Speaker 1: children are used as pawns. Right. We see this again
- 27:29Speaker 1: and again, and sometimes the children are killed along with
- 27:31Speaker 1: the mother. I mean, I would just say in this case,
- 27:34Speaker 1: thank God that the children are still alive, because they
- 27:37Speaker 1: could have been victims of homicide too. This is what
- 27:39Speaker 1: we know right now. The body of this young mom
- 27:42Speaker 1: of three, Kierley Delio, has been uncovered in the ava landfield.
- 27:47Speaker 1: Her husband, Jason Devilio, claims she killed herself. But I mean,
- 27:53Speaker 1: the reality, Karen Smith, how do you kill yourself with
- 27:56Speaker 1: a long gun a rifle? What rig it up with string?
- 28:00Speaker 1: Sheet yourself with your toe? I mean, you can't hold
- 28:04Speaker 1: it at a distance and pull the trigger on yourself.
- 28:07Speaker 1: So the story is fantastical, Karen Smill, I mean, talk
- 28:12Speaker 1: to me about suicide by long gun. I've seen it.
- 28:15Speaker 1: It's not easy. You know, under the chin it's possible
- 28:19Speaker 1: with bum pulling the trigger. It's unlikely. It's highly, highly unlikely.
- 28:24Speaker 1: And you know what, Nancy, Now that they've recovered her body,
- 28:26Speaker 1: that's a crime scene in itself. Now they have a
- 28:28Speaker 1: secondary crime scene. Her body is going to go in
- 28:30Speaker 1: for autopsy and they're going to do an assessment of
- 28:33Speaker 1: where the bullet entered, where the bullet exited, and that
- 28:36Speaker 1: is going to tell a huge part of the story
- 28:39Speaker 1: in itself, along with the crime scene back at the house.
- 28:42Speaker 1: So the forensics are going to tell the entire story
- 28:44Speaker 1: of this case from top to bottom, from the ballistics
- 28:47Speaker 1: to the trajectory to any blood stains left at the
- 28:49Speaker 1: crime scene. Those forensic technicians have their work cut out
- 28:52Speaker 1: for them, but I think the story is going to
- 28:54Speaker 1: unfold in quick time crime stories with Nancy Grace. Investigators
- 29:12Speaker 1: will also look to cell phones and other electronics gathered
- 29:15Speaker 1: to tell them about potential motive what might have led
- 29:18Speaker 1: to carry lead Devolio's killing. District Attorney mcnamaro believes the
- 29:22Speaker 1: couple's children, ages two, four, and five, were in the
- 29:25Speaker 1: home at the time, but doesn't know if they saw
- 29:28Speaker 1: their mother shot. There will be a time where we'll
- 29:32Speaker 1: use the investigators that are properly trained to interview children,
- 29:37Speaker 1: but I don't know if this is the time. I'm
- 29:40Speaker 1: not going to ask anybody to go back and hit
- 29:42Speaker 1: these kids up with a hard interview. At this you're
- 29:43Speaker 1: hearing law enforcement speaking to our friend at w KTV
- 29:46Speaker 1: reporter Jolene Ferris, the children most likely were home. If
- 29:51Speaker 1: not home, then where the body of Kerley Devolio has
- 29:55Speaker 1: been uncovered at the Ava landfill. Her husband, Jason Devilio
- 29:58Speaker 1: claims she killed herself and he took it upon himself
- 30:04Speaker 1: to clean up the crime scene and dispose of the
- 30:08Speaker 1: body and the suicide the so called suicide weapon. Levi Page,
- 30:12Speaker 1: weren't you telling me? Levi Page with me crime online
- 30:15Speaker 1: dot Com investigative reporter where you can read about this
- 30:19Speaker 1: at all other breaking crime and justice news. Levin, didn't
- 30:22Speaker 1: you mention to me that they were in the midst
- 30:23Speaker 1: of a divorce. They were in the early stages of
- 30:26Speaker 1: a divorce, and people are wondering what could motivate this
- 30:30Speaker 1: man to possibly kill his wife. Divorce could be a motive.
- 30:35Speaker 1: I checked out her Facebook and she had reverted back
- 30:38Speaker 1: to her maiden name on Facebook. So I'm wondering, is
- 30:41Speaker 1: it possible that she was ready to move on and
- 30:44Speaker 1: he was not ready to move on and that is
- 30:46Speaker 1: what spurred this anger and possible murder? Well, speaking of
- 30:52Speaker 1: this cut thirteen, speaking of the children, can you imagine
- 30:55Speaker 1: but in a couple of years, My children are like
- 30:59Speaker 1: little monkeys when it comes to the phone, the TV,
- 31:02Speaker 1: the iPad. They can tell me anything I want to know.
- 31:06Speaker 1: They're all over it. There's no way to keep these
- 31:09Speaker 1: children curely. Devilio's children from finding out what happened. I
- 31:14Speaker 1: wonder what their response is going to be and how
- 31:17Speaker 1: they're going to digest hearing this from WKTV. This is
- 31:23Speaker 1: Joeyne Ferris a Channel two. It's of activity this morning
- 31:26Speaker 1: regarding the search for this missing mother of three. Heartbreaking
- 31:30Speaker 1: conclusion here at the Ava landfill. Like you just said,
- 31:33Speaker 1: we're Rome Police believe, with the assistance of State police
- 31:36Speaker 1: cadaver dogs, they have found the body of thirty two
- 31:39Speaker 1: year old Carrie lead Devolio of Rome. We'll take a
- 31:41Speaker 1: look at the activity behind me. Oft in the distance,
- 31:44Speaker 1: you might be able to see a black and white
- 31:46Speaker 1: Rome police cruiser a little to the left of that
- 31:49Speaker 1: as a minivan which could be a coroner's van, but
- 31:53Speaker 1: we're simply not close enough to make that determination for sure.
- 31:57Speaker 1: But again, police still on the scene here the Ava Landfill.
- 32:01Speaker 1: Earlier today, about an hour and a half ago in Rome,
- 32:05Speaker 1: we caught up with the Oneida County Sheriff's Department. They
- 32:08Speaker 1: were searching the barge canal in an area beneath the
- 32:11Speaker 1: Mill Street Bridge, where after about an hour of searching,
- 32:15Speaker 1: they found a long gun which fit the description of
- 32:18Speaker 1: the gun Rome Police had asked them to search for
- 32:21Speaker 1: in connection with this case, I can only imagine dotor
- 32:25Speaker 1: Bethany Marshall when those children get old enough to go
- 32:28Speaker 1: online and hear the reports from our friend Jolne Ferris
- 32:32Speaker 1: Well Nancy. Not only do they face the trauma of
- 32:35Speaker 1: the loss of their mother, but one of the ways
- 32:39Speaker 1: children overcome trauma and have the resiliency to move on
- 32:43Speaker 1: throughout the lifespan is that the relationship with family members
- 32:48Speaker 1: comforts them, protects them, gives them a feeling of security
- 32:51Speaker 1: so that they can get over the trauma. Well, now
- 32:54Speaker 1: they've lost that key figure in their life who would
- 32:57Speaker 1: be the one person to help them with their trauma.
- 33:00Speaker 1: Their mother, their father's going to go to prison, and
- 33:03Speaker 1: they're going to be placed with relatives or foster care
- 33:06Speaker 1: or with some family that's not a first degree relative.
- 33:09Speaker 1: So I would say reading about the homicide is just
- 33:12Speaker 1: only the beginning. It's going to be all that disrupted
- 33:15Speaker 1: attachments as they're moved out into different homes and possibly
- 33:19Speaker 1: even separated. That's where the real tragedy lies. In my
- 33:22Speaker 1: mind right now, I believe Lea vi Page that they
- 33:25Speaker 1: are with Kirolee's family. They are with her sister, the
- 33:29Speaker 1: victim's sister. That is the children are with and Nancy,
- 33:31Speaker 1: you know what I'm thinking of. There was a case
- 33:34Speaker 1: that I was reading about out of Florida where this
- 33:37Speaker 1: young man he was in his twenties, but he was
- 33:39Speaker 1: a toddler when his father was suspected of killing his mother.
- 33:44Speaker 1: I know exactly what you're gonna say. And he goes
- 33:47Speaker 1: back to the childhood home and they start digging and
- 33:49Speaker 1: they find the mom skull at my pool, right. So
- 33:52Speaker 1: sad about that case is very early on in the investigation, Nancy,
- 33:56Speaker 1: that little boy told child Protective Services that daddy hurt mommy,
- 34:01Speaker 1: but they did not charge that husband until he actually
- 34:06Speaker 1: sued his father for wrongful death. And they went to
- 34:09Speaker 1: the home and he was remodeling it and they were
- 34:12Speaker 1: digging in the backyard and he discovered his own mother's
- 34:16Speaker 1: skull and that's when they charged him. And I think
- 34:19Speaker 1: that if the kids know something and they say something,
- 34:23Speaker 1: that we should take that very serious. You know, you're
- 34:26Speaker 1: scaring me because we are now reading each other's mind.
- 34:31Speaker 1: And you're right, no one took him seriously, and he
- 34:34Speaker 1: grows up knowing what he thinks he learned as a child.
- 34:40Speaker 1: This guy finds his mom's skull in his childhood backyard
- 34:43Speaker 1: twenty years after telling police Daddy hurt mommy. It was
- 34:47Speaker 1: in Jacksonville. I remember it clearly, and it was Michael
- 34:50Speaker 1: Ham and the jury convicted him and the slaying. The
- 34:54Speaker 1: murder was back in nineteen ninety three. He got a
- 34:58Speaker 1: good memory. Leave by page. I mean, just read about that.
- 35:00Speaker 1: And in this case, police and prosecutors say Jason Devilio
- 35:04Speaker 1: leads them to the dumpster, they find his wife's body.
- 35:08Speaker 1: They go to I said late earlier it's a canal,
- 35:10Speaker 1: but same scenario, very hard to dive in murky waterne
- 35:14Speaker 1: canal where he allegedly dumps the gun that she used
- 35:18Speaker 1: in her quote suicide. He says, his wife killed herself,
- 35:21Speaker 1: then he disposed of her body, disposed of the weapon
- 35:25Speaker 1: she used to kill herself, and then took it upon himself.
- 35:28Speaker 1: What a neat nick to clean up the residence. That
- 35:31Speaker 1: is what law enforcement is saying. They also going to say, quote,
- 35:35Speaker 1: we've seen a lot of suicide. I don't remember a
- 35:38Speaker 1: family disposing of the body or the weapon us and
- 35:41Speaker 1: then cleaning up the scene. You know, why is it?
- 35:44Speaker 1: Doctor Bethany Marshall, You're the shrink. Why is it that
- 35:47Speaker 1: men suddenly turned into neat Nick's when their wife quote
- 35:50Speaker 1: goes missing. Well, you know, I can't imagine what this
- 35:55Speaker 1: house actually look like. I mean, what he thinks is
- 36:00Speaker 1: leaning up a crime scene versus the reality of how
- 36:02Speaker 1: that house appeared or probably two different things. And as
- 36:06Speaker 1: Wendy said earlier, you know with this police talk, sometimes
- 36:10Speaker 1: the POI officer will make it sound like, oh, that
- 36:13Speaker 1: the house was I can't do the police talk, but
- 36:15Speaker 1: you know, they minimize the reality of what the crime
- 36:18Speaker 1: scene looks like. In this case, I bet it wasn't
- 36:20Speaker 1: neat I bet there was blood spatter, as you said,
- 36:22Speaker 1: furniture was overturned, chaos, and the idea that he cleaned
- 36:27Speaker 1: up was probably one more shallow sociopathic concept like breaking
- 36:33Speaker 1: about the crime or saying that his wife killed herself.
- 36:35Speaker 1: It's not credible, it's shallow, it doesn't hold up. You know,
- 36:39Speaker 1: there's only one story that doesn't change, and that's the
- 36:43Speaker 1: truthful story. And in this case, there's no truth to
- 36:45Speaker 1: anything he said. Take a listen to eyewitness Knees bent Innis.
- 36:50Speaker 1: Forty eight year old Jason Devolio has pleaded not guilty
- 36:53Speaker 1: for that fellow any charge concealment of a human corpse
- 36:56Speaker 1: after his wife, thirty two year old care Lead Davolio,
- 36:59Speaker 1: was found at the Nida County Landfill in Ava today
- 37:02Speaker 1: and during his appearance, he waved his felony exam hearing,
- 37:05Speaker 1: meaning the case heads over to the Uida County District
- 37:08Speaker 1: Attorney's office. Jason's bail was set at ten thousand dollars
- 37:11Speaker 1: cash or twenty thousand dollars bard. Now what you see
- 37:15Speaker 1: on your screen our images of Kareley Devolio's home on
- 37:17Speaker 1: Belmont Street in Rome, which police still had roped off
- 37:21Speaker 1: this morning. Mister Devolio went missing around went missing Saturday
- 37:25Speaker 1: the twenty seventh, and just this morning, the Unida County
- 37:28Speaker 1: Sheriff's Office located a long gun in the barge canal
- 37:32Speaker 1: that matched the description of a gun Rome police were
- 37:34Speaker 1: searching for after interviewing Jason Devoli. Right now, our prayers
- 37:38Speaker 1: with those three children in the family of Kireley Devolio.
- 37:44Speaker 1: We wait as justice and false Nancy Gray's crime story
- 37:48Speaker 1: signing off, goodbye friend,