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Tech company CEO, wife, children murdered in mansion fire; was his own brothers' jealousy motive for murder? · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: But first the special Crime online dot com report the
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  Speaker 1: police interviews in the Chris Watts murder case. I'm Alan Duke.
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  Speaker 1: The prosecutor who sent Colorado dad Chris Watts to prison
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  Speaker 1: for life. He admitted murdering his pregnant wife and two
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  Speaker 1: young daughters. Released hours of police interrogations today and you
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  Speaker 1: can hear them on Nancy's crime and justice website crime
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  Speaker 1: online dot com. You will hear Wats confessed to detectives
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  Speaker 1: that he killed his wife, but you'll also hear his
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  Speaker 1: lie that he did it in a rage after seeing
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  Speaker 1: her on a baby monitor strangle one of their daughters.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to be The prosecutor also released the police
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  Speaker 1: interview with Chris Watts's mistress, Nicole Kessinger. She told investigators
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  Speaker 1: about intimate details of their relationship and what she knew
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  Speaker 1: about his family. The two met at work, flirting in
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  Speaker 1: the hallways for months before going out, and then one
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  Speaker 1: day he told me that he had two kids. I
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  Speaker 1: was sorry, that's pretty cool, and so tell me what
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  Speaker 1: his kids. That sounded like a sarcastic coming. No, I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was kind of cute. I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: he's a dad. It was like greater her own father's
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  Speaker 1: day too. Nicole says Watts did not wear a wedding ring.
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  Speaker 1: Thing was is He was never hostile. It was never
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  Speaker 1: anything aggressive, like even when he spoke of his wife
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  Speaker 1: and the fact that they were separating, it was never
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  Speaker 1: like ill. It was very it was still very kind.
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  Speaker 1: It was just like, this is not working. Kessinger says
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  Speaker 1: she started dating Watts in June twenty eighteen, and she
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  Speaker 1: thought he was in the final stages of a divorce.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know his significant other's name for a while,
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  Speaker 1: and then I think he told me his kid's names
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  Speaker 1: pretty quick. But a police arch of Nicole's computer revealed
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  Speaker 1: she researched Shannon watch his name online in September, a
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  Speaker 1: year before. Did he ever tell you that he loved you? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: he did. Did you ever tell him the same a
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  Speaker 1: couple of times? She says she was concerned about baggage
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  Speaker 1: Watts might bring from his first marriage into their relationship.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he just told me. He's like, we're housebroke
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  Speaker 1: all the time, and I was just like, that's unfortunate.
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  Speaker 1: And I asked him. I was like, d have four
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  Speaker 1: O one K and he was like yeah. And I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the reason I asked him this is because if I
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  Speaker 1: get into relationship with somebody, I want to know, like
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  Speaker 1: what kind of baggage that they have. I think that's important.
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  Speaker 1: But looking back, Nicole says she had no warning signs
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  Speaker 1: about how much baggage Watts carried to this day, even
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  Speaker 1: after everything that I found out, I still look back
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  Speaker 1: at that and I don't see any red lights. With
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  Speaker 1: the way that he spoke of his family. Watts was
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  Speaker 1: bold enough to take his mistress several times to the
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  Speaker 1: home he shared with his wife and kids. I saw
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  Speaker 1: a picture of his wife and one of his kids,
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  Speaker 1: and I remember thinking to myself, like, Wow, she's so beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: and I took a step back and I was just like,
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  Speaker 1: this man has a gorgeous house, he has beautiful babies,
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  Speaker 1: he has a beautiful wife, he has an awesome job.
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  Speaker 1: Why would he want to leave this? And I remember
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  Speaker 1: talking him about it, and that was the first time
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  Speaker 1: that I tried to actually say, what do you think
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  Speaker 1: about not separating from your wife? Like what if you
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  Speaker 1: really try to work on this? And he had expressed
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  Speaker 1: to me that we've tried to work on this and
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  Speaker 1: it's not working, so that is why we're separating. And
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  Speaker 1: I spent some time like just you know, kind of
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  Speaker 1: because it almost made me feel bad where I was
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  Speaker 1: like to the point where I'm engaging in a relationship
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  Speaker 1: with a man who the way he described it as
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  Speaker 1: in a contractual agreement, but was not in like an
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  Speaker 1: emotional relationship with somebody. And for me, the way I
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  Speaker 1: would have preferred to do this is to have waited
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  Speaker 1: until that contractual agreement was also done and he was done,
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  Speaker 1: and he could have approached me and said, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: had a divorce, you know, maybe we could take the
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  Speaker 1: slow what do you think? But instead it was, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we're separated and we're working on a divorce. And that
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  Speaker 1: is the part that I feel bad about because I
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  Speaker 1: should wait it on that and I didn't. It was
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  Speaker 1: the media coverage of the search for watts missing family
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  Speaker 1: in August that finally made Nicole realize Watts was a liar,
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  Speaker 1: maybe a killer. She called cops after reading in the
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  Speaker 1: newspaper that shone On Watts was four months pregnant. Before
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  Speaker 1: calling police, though, she deleted everything from her phone relating
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  Speaker 1: to Chris, you'd found out that his wife was pregnant,
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  Speaker 1: and I yes, and you did not know that prior
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  Speaker 1: and you found that out via the newspaper articles and
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  Speaker 1: that caused you concern. Well, I just realized that he
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  Speaker 1: was lying to me, and I was like, well, if
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  Speaker 1: you can lie to me about this, what else do
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  Speaker 1: you lying to me about? And it made me realize
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  Speaker 1: that maybe his wife was in danger at that point,
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  Speaker 1: and it was day two two and she still wasn't home.
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  Speaker 1: What did that cause you to do with your phone? Though? Oh? What?
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  Speaker 1: When I deleted those I was just kind of grossed
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  Speaker 1: out by him, to be honest with you, I was
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  Speaker 1: just like, I don't know what's going on right now.
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  Speaker 1: You just lied to me, and I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: see this come over my phone anymore. So I removed it.
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  Speaker 1: So you just you already said, but you removed text messages.
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  Speaker 1: I deleted all of his stuff because he lied to me.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's what it was. It was it was
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  Speaker 1: the hurt that made me delete it. And then it
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  Speaker 1: was the lie that made me start questioning everything else
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  Speaker 1: you'd been telling me for the last few days, and
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  Speaker 1: that's when you decided to come forward. Yes. Watch the
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  Speaker 1: full interview with Nicole Wessinger and the police interviews of
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  Speaker 1: Chris Watts on Nancy's crime and justice website Crime online
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  Speaker 1: dot Com Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. A tragic scene
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  Speaker 1: just two days before Thanksgiving, a home that should be
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  Speaker 1: filled with family preparing for the holiday instead surrounded by
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  Speaker 1: dozens of fire trucks. The mansionoff Route thirty four on
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  Speaker 1: Willowbrook Road went off lame's Tuesday afternoon. Firefighters were called
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  Speaker 1: here around one pm to find one man and dead
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  Speaker 1: just outside the house, and inside three more bodies, another
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  Speaker 1: adult and two children. Unfortunately, they were burned severely as
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  Speaker 1: a result of the fire that they were too, so
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  Speaker 1: that's making things somewhat challenging with the medical examination that
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  Speaker 1: needs to ensue. The bodies have not been identified, but
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  Speaker 1: property records show the homeowners as Keith and Jennifer Canaro.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators soon realized the family owned his house has relatives
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  Speaker 1: about ten miles away Shan Township, and their home also
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  Speaker 1: caught fire earlier the same day. Wonderful people, very nice,
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  Speaker 1: very friendly. Anybody that you'd want to be living next
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  Speaker 1: door to a tech company giant. A CEO and his
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  Speaker 1: wife found dead along with their two little children in
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  Speaker 1: a huge blaze and a nearly two million dollar mansion.
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  Speaker 1: Police now revealing the husband found outside the home with
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  Speaker 1: a deadly gunshot wound. So, of course, at first glance,
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  Speaker 1: so you would think this was an arson, but no
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  Speaker 1: gunshots involved. What happened? I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime
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  Speaker 1: Stories bombshell. Now we are learning murder charges have been
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  Speaker 1: filed in the colts Neck fire. Allegedly this man killed
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  Speaker 1: his brother and his brother's entire family, the wife, Jennifer,
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  Speaker 1: the two little children, and set the home on fire.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost more than I can take in straight out
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  Speaker 1: to crime online dot Com investigative reporter Robin or Lensky, Robin,
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  Speaker 1: what happened? Well? The Mamas County Prosecutor has connected the
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  Speaker 1: docks with his many investigators on this case in colts Neck,
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey, and Paul Knaro is charged. The older brother
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  Speaker 1: is now charged with four counts of murder. Nancy. This
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  Speaker 1: is for allegedly killing his younger brother, Keith fifty there
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  Speaker 1: you're a part. His wife, Jennifer, forty five years old,
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  Speaker 1: and the two little kids, little Jesse who was eleven
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  Speaker 1: and Sophia just eight years old in the third grade.
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  Speaker 1: All dead. Take a listen to Mammoth County, New Jersey
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  Speaker 1: Prosecutor Christopher Gramuccione. We have charged defendant Canaro with four
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  Speaker 1: counts of murder, one count of aggravated arson, one count
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  Speaker 1: of possession of a firearm for an unlawful purpose, and
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  Speaker 1: one count of possession of a knife for an unlawful purpose.
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  Speaker 1: These charges that were filed this morning are in addition
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  Speaker 1: to the charge that was filed last week out of
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  Speaker 1: Ocean Township for the alleged aggravated arson of the defendant's
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  Speaker 1: own home. And by filing these charges, the state alleges
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  Speaker 1: that the defendant murdered his brother, Keith Canaro, and Keith's
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  Speaker 1: entire family, his two children, Sophia and Jesse, and his
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  Speaker 1: wife Jennifer during the early morning hours of Tuesday, November twentieth. Specifically,
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  Speaker 1: we alleged that the defendant repeatedly shot and killed his
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  Speaker 1: brother while he was outside of the side of his
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  Speaker 1: home and then moved to murder the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: family inside the home. We alleged that Jennifer was shot
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  Speaker 1: and stabbed, and the two Canaro children were repeatedly stabbed
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  Speaker 1: by knife. We also alleged that after murdering the Canaro family,
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  Speaker 1: the defendant then set fire to the house at fifteen
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  Speaker 1: Willowbrook and Colteneck in an effort to conceal and disguise
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  Speaker 1: his earlier committing crimes. You know, I'm trying to just
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  Speaker 1: understand the frame of mind that would convince you that
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  Speaker 1: it's okay not only to murder your brother, but his
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  Speaker 1: wife who's clearly probably still asleep, and the two little children.
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  Speaker 1: How do you ever feel justified in murdering children? You don't, Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I think you need to look at
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  Speaker 1: this guy. They need to look at him very carefully
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  Speaker 1: and what the motivator was. He was involved in business businesses,
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  Speaker 1: multiple businesses with his brother since the nineties. They had
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  Speaker 1: a successful tech company. They also had a pesticide company
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  Speaker 1: operated out of the same building in Edsbury Park, New Jersey,
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  Speaker 1: also in Mamma's County home originally to Bruce Springsteen. Many
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  Speaker 1: people know this area of the Jersey Shore. They were
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  Speaker 1: both living in very expensive homes, the older brother living
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  Speaker 1: in a seven hundred thousand dollars home, the younger brother
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  Speaker 1: living in an almost a two million dollar home. So
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  Speaker 1: clearly they were very successful. But was there some sort
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  Speaker 1: of jealous rage going on? I mean the rage that
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  Speaker 1: you could stab the mother, Jennifer forty five, and the
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  Speaker 1: two little kids. They were stabbed to death, Nancy, and
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  Speaker 1: then the fire was set. After the fact, the husband
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  Speaker 1: of this family, the brother, the younger brother, was found
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  Speaker 1: shot to death outside, shot in the back of the head.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to add that an addition to the
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  Speaker 1: four counts of murder. If that's not enough, there's possession
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  Speaker 1: of a firearm he's charged with, and also possession of
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  Speaker 1: a weapon for unlawful purpose. What do we know about
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  Speaker 1: the fires? Nancy? Here's the bottom line. Paul Canaro, who's
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  Speaker 1: now charged with the four counts of murder and the
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  Speaker 1: weapons charge. Originally the Mammoth County Prosecutor's office charged him
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  Speaker 1: with the single charge of aggravated arson. This for setting
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  Speaker 1: his own home, Ocean Township, ten miles away from Coult's Neck,
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  Speaker 1: on fire. There were two small fires at his home,
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  Speaker 1: one in the backyard behind the house and one that
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  Speaker 1: was kind of connected to the garage. You know how
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  Speaker 1: there's a garage door, like an actual manual door, not
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  Speaker 1: where the cars are coming through, but where a person
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  Speaker 1: could come through. There was a second fire there, and
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  Speaker 1: so that charge was for the fire at his own
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  Speaker 1: home at five am. It's the second fire in Coult's
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  Speaker 1: Neck that comes down the pike seven hours later in
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  Speaker 1: the noon hour. Listen to this Keith's Canaro's cause and
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  Speaker 1: manner of death was ruled to be multiple gunshot wounds
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  Speaker 1: by homicide. Jennifer Jesse and Sophia's cause and manner of
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  Speaker 1: death remain open pending toxicology reports. But as I mentioned
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  Speaker 1: last week when we spoke about this case, it is
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  Speaker 1: the state's position and allegations that they were the victims
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  Speaker 1: of homicidal violence, as indicated by the charges that were
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  Speaker 1: filed today. The cause of the two fires at the
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  Speaker 1: Ocean Township home and the Coultsneck home has been determined
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  Speaker 1: to be arson by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
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  Speaker 1: I want to move to the tech company CEO, his wife,
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  Speaker 1: and their two young children found dead at the scene
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  Speaker 1: of an intentional fire in an very upscale neighborhood, the
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  Speaker 1: bodies of Keith Canaro, his wife Jennifer, their son and
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  Speaker 1: daughter all discovered dead, and their two million dollar Colt's
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  Speaker 1: Neck home up in flames. Now to Joe Scott Morgan,
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  Speaker 1: Professor forensics at Jacksonville State University, author of Blood Beneath
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  Speaker 1: My Feet, his book on Amazon. Now, when you walk
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  Speaker 1: into and I've had an arson very similar to this,
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  Speaker 1: And let me tell you something, Joe Scott, as you
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  Speaker 1: well know, arsons, in my mind, are one of the
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  Speaker 1: most difficult cases to prove, because first you've got to
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  Speaker 1: prove it was a crime, that it's not accidental. You
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  Speaker 1: got to figure out how the fire started when all
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  Speaker 1: your evidence is burned up. That's sometimes hard to do.
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  Speaker 1: So I started developing a thing, let me just say
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  Speaker 1: for arsons, because they're very very technical cases. When you
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  Speaker 1: first come up to a home that is burned to
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  Speaker 1: the ground and people are dead, you think, ah, accion
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  Speaker 1: on fire, death by smoke inhalation. But only when you
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  Speaker 1: determine the cause of the fire, be it electrical, be
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  Speaker 1: it accelerant such as gasoline or alcohol of some sort.
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  Speaker 1: I've had one arson in a million dollar home started
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  Speaker 1: with a shoe cleaner with acetone in it. Find that
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  Speaker 1: I believe in fingernail polish. Long story short, you gotta
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  Speaker 1: get the bodies if they're not charred beyond recognition, and
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  Speaker 1: then do the autopsy. When you find the man, the
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  Speaker 1: dad out front, and then you examine the body, find
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  Speaker 1: out he didn't die from smoke inhalation, he died from
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  Speaker 1: a gunshot wound. You take it on, Joe Scott. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's a bizarre set of circumstances, Nancy. And there's
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  Speaker 1: there's two ways that we look at this. You're absolutely
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  Speaker 1: right when you're talking about how complicated complex these cases are.
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  Speaker 1: If no one's ever been in our audience, has never
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  Speaker 1: been into a home that's been burned down, it looks
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  Speaker 1: like just a jumble mass of black and gray debris everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: And I remember, as a young investigator looking at this
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  Speaker 1: and thinking, how in the world is all of this
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  Speaker 1: sorted out? But there is a method to the madness
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  Speaker 1: when we do the examinations on bodies that have been
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  Speaker 1: subjected to fire. First off, my first thought is not
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  Speaker 1: that this is an accident. I work down I assume
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  Speaker 1: that everything is a homicide, and when I take a
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  Speaker 1: look at a body, I'm going to look at it toxicologically,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm going to look at the injuries. And in
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  Speaker 1: this particular case, what we do is we draw blood
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  Speaker 1: and we look for something that's called carboxyhemoglobin. And what
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  Speaker 1: that simply means is were they alive. Were they alive
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  Speaker 1: at the time that the fire was going in on,
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  Speaker 1: because if they were, that means that the carbon monoxide
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  Speaker 1: level in their blood is going to be particularly high.
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  Speaker 1: And also we're going to look into their airway to
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  Speaker 1: see if they've actually physically inhalated any kind of debris
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  Speaker 1: like burning paper, burning wood, anything that will give us
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  Speaker 1: a physical indication. Tell me this. They find the body
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  Speaker 1: of Keith Canaro, the dad, out front, from a gunshine wound,
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  Speaker 1: and suddenly they think, oh, okay, he killed himself. Then
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  Speaker 1: he burns the house down. So that's the first line
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  Speaker 1: of thinking. Guys, for those of you just joining us,
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  Speaker 1: A CEO and his two small children, the young son
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  Speaker 1: and daughter found dead in a horrific place. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking at the little boy and the little girl right now, Jackie,
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  Speaker 1: the little boy has on the same exact outfit my
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  Speaker 1: son wears. The little under arm or shirt he thinks
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  Speaker 1: he's so cool. And the little black socks with the
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  Speaker 1: red stripe up the back, that's the thing at their school.
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  Speaker 1: And the little girl's hair is all tossl, tausel. That's
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  Speaker 1: just got out of bed. I'm looking at their photos
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  Speaker 1: right now. I'm looking at a picture of Keith Canaro
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  Speaker 1: and why Jennifer Miling doing a selfie together. I don't
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  Speaker 1: understand what happened, but I do know this. When they
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  Speaker 1: first come up, Kathleen Murphy joining me, North Carolina family Lawyer,
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  Speaker 1: you come upon a scene, Kathleen, the husband's out front
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  Speaker 1: with a gunshot wound, the wife and the two little
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  Speaker 1: children dead, and the two million dollar mansion. They think
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  Speaker 1: it's murder suicide, because that's typically the way that playbook goes. Kathleen,
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  Speaker 1: why domestic violence is rampant? Custody actions are rampant men
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  Speaker 1: killing their wives and their children in the Chris Watt's
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  Speaker 1: case is in the news, and it is a problem.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what's going on in my mind at the
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  Speaker 1: first impression of that story. Right now, I'm looking in
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  Speaker 1: videos showing smoke pouring from the roof of this gorgeous mansion.
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  Speaker 1: The mansion on fire, and it looks like somebody has
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  Speaker 1: covered Canaro's body lying out front in the yard with
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: a sheet. At this point, I doubt they know that
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: inside it is the beautiful young mom and two little children.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: But all is not as it seems. I'm sad to
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: report that we've had an incident here that remains under investigation.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Around twelve thirty eight, the County Dispatch received the call
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: for a structure fire on Willow Grove Road in cult Neck.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Here in town. There was a response, a large fire
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: and police response, and that continues as I stand here today. Unfortunately,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: we have confirmed that there are four fatalities that we're
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: found to be at the home. It's two adults and
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: two children. We are still investigating the cause and manner,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: and unfortunately the fire, because it is still ongoing, it's
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: creating some challenges for investigation. But a number of ladders,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: more than t fire departments continue to work to suppress
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: and extinguish that fire, and we're going to continue our
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: investigation once that's scene is released. I don't have any
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: information I can provide on identity of these individuals. Now
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: know who the four people were. It was Key Knaro,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: the CEO of a tech company, his beautiful young wife, Jennifer,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: and their two little children, absolutely precious children. All four
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: killed ablaze in their two million dollar mansion. But not
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: all is as it seems as a matter of fact
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: to in criminal law, Kathleen Murphy, you know very well,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I always say there's no coincidence in criminal law. Nope,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: there is no coincidence in where there's smoke, there's fire.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: I was just waiting for somebody to say that. I
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: thought it would be Jackie, but it was you. Okay,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Robert Willlenski, there are two different mansions. Explain the significance
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: of two mansions at issue in the same twenty four
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: hour period. Okay, I'm gonna make it crystal clear. There
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: are two fires in two separate towns ten miles apart.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: The first fire, Nancy, happens at five o'clock in the
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: morning at Paul Canaro's house. That mouse is six hundred
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: and seventy thousand dollars. There's a fire nine one. One
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: is called his wife and two daughters, and he gets
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: out safely in Ocean Township, about ten miles away. Seven
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: hours later, there is a fire at the two million
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: dollar mansion in Cultsneck is a really well to do town.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Bruce Springsteen the singer has a home there. John Stewart
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: the comedian has a home there, and many other famous names.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: A lot of people live there anonymously on these big
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: ten acre horse farms. It's one of the wealthiest, most
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: beautiful town in New Jersey. I'm from New Jersey. Coultsneck
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: is big time money and Nancy, that's where the second
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: fire is. Seven hours later, you're telling me that there
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: was an early early early morning fire with Paul Knaro
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: in his seven hundred thousand dollars mansion. And then what
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: happened and then the Mammoths County nine one one system.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: These people both live in Mammoths County. They get a
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: call for a fire at a second home, same last name, Ding,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Ding Ding, and that's when alarm bells literally go off.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Nancy that there's fire at the older brother's house who's
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: fifty one, and fire at the second brother's house, who's
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: fifty okay now. Joe Scott Morgan, author of Blood Beneath
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: My Feet on Amazon and professor forensics at Jacksonville State University.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Joe Scott, I mean, just at first blush You've got
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: two brothers ten miles apart, both living in mansions, both
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: with their wives and children at home, when fires break
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: out in the early morning hours. At first glance, you
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: would assume you would deduct either or there's a vendetta
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: against the Canaro family and both the brothers have been
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: their homes have been set on fire, or one set
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: the others home on fire. I mean, there's there's gotten
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: to be a connection. They're ten miles apart, they have
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: to win a couple of hours of each other, same
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: emo arson. They've got to be connected, Joe Scott, There's
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: no doubt in my mind about that. Yeah, Yeah, you're right, Nancy.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: And you know I'm not going to be looking to
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: the heavens to see if Brimstone's rank raining down and
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: just arbitrarily strikes these two homes. There is connected. My
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: first My first idea is that I want to see
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: the connectivity between both of these events. The methodology that's used,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: and that is what's the origin of this fire? Where
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: where do they start? Uh in a particular location. Was
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: one started interiorly or someone started exteriorly or both. Also,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: another thing that's key here is that most fires don't
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: just spontaneously start. You're going to have to have an
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: electrical source. You can have a chemical source. You can
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: have a source like gasoline you had mentioned earlier, some
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: kind of flammable liquid. And one of the things that
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: we look for in this in this this uh mass
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: of burned debris are hot spots. These areas where accelerant
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: is used. Generally there'll be more destruction in that particular
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: area as a point of origin. That's one of the
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: things we look for. What could have caused this. Well,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: let me tell you something, Joe Scott, You're absolutely right.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: When you're analyzing an arson scene, you find the most damage.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Typically that's where the fire started. It's where the most
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: damage is if you have an accelerant. I recall one
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: arson scene that was chalked up too electrical. It wasn't electrical.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: It was started with an accelerant. The kitchen was most
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: badly damaged. That's where the fire started and you could
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: hardly make it out. But on the floor it looked
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: like somebody had poured coke, pepsi something like that and
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: it had dried. That's what the burned floor looked like.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: That's where the accelerant was poor. That's just what it
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: looked like to me. Okay. Then we bring in a
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: fire dog, who you know, dogs only see in shades
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: of like gray and black. The dog immediately hit on
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: what it looked like to me was dried coke. What
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: that was is where the floor had been scorched really
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: in the outline where they poured the accelerant. It was
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: not gasoline, but I'll just say gasoline for purposes of
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: this discussion. Like where the gasoline had been poured, you
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: could actually see the scorched outline on the floor. Okay.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: And at first we thought the wife, the mom had
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: died of smoke inhalation until get to the hospital and
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: she had a cylindrical blow to the very top of
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: her head. So that's how that particular arson worked out.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Take a listen to this. The origin of the Coultsaneck
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: fire was in the basement and the origin of the
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Ocean Township fire was two exterior locations at each end
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: of the house in Ocean Township. Now, there's been extensive
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: speculation about the timeline or order of an events as
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: it pertained to the fires in these two towns. We
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: alleged that the Coultsneck incident happened in the early morning
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: hours of last Tuesday, November twentieth. We also alleged that
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: the defendant returned to his house in Ocean Township with
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: certain items of evidence that he retained from the Coltsaneck
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: crime scene, and I can't find provide any further description
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: as to that type of evidence because of the ethical
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: and legal rules that constrain us from there. We alleged
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: the defendant intentionally set fire in his home at are
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: about five am for the purpose of both destroying evidence
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: of his earlier crimes in colts Neck and to also
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: create the illusion that the overall Canaro family was somehow
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: victimized or targeted. We alleged that it was a ruse.
• 26:25
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• 28:05
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• 28:15
  Speaker 1: large fire. After two house fires and four murders, police
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: in quiet colts Neck, New Jersey, has been Thanksgiving Eve
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: looking to solve a gruesome mystery. It started when flames
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: shot through this sprawling mansion around twelve thirty yesterday, afternoons
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: of roots pretty construction, fire discussion inside forty five year
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: old Jennifer Canaro and what police believe were her two
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: young children, their bodies left to burn, and outside another
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: grim find their father, fifty year old Keith Knaro, shot
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: to death on the lawn. You are hearing from our
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: friend Tony Jacopol of CBS News reporting four people dead,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: all four of homicidal violence. Now that's a big clue
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: right there, to Justice Scott Morgan, Professor forensics. When you
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: have an arson, you know the dad has been shot.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: You don't know about the other three. They knew already
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: it was homicide, not just an arson. The two children
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: were actually stabbed dead, Joe Scott and the wife as well. Yeah,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: and that the police, if there's anything good in this investigation,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: the police do have evidence of homicidal violence before going
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: into the home. I think many times we walk in
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: and we don't have a direction to go in. But
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: if we've got a dead guy laying on the lawn,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: then anybody else that we find in that home is
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: going to be suspect. A relative to the injuries that
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: they have and it's it is just an absolute mess, Nancy.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: When you have bodies that have been burned, and you know,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: most of the time when bodies are burned in connection
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: with a homicide, it's to destroy evidence. And sometimes if
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: we talked about tolerance this sort of thing, they create
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: more evidence. Because I don't know about this particular case.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: I've had cases where perpetrators have literally gone in they've
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: killed people, and they have taken accelerant poured it over
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: the bodies, thinking that, oh, yeah, this is just going
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: to absolutely destroy the body. It doesn't. It takes an
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: incredible amount of heat to destroy a human body. And
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: he didn't succeed. Yeah, it would have gotten out of
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: all of that evidence. Stab wounds would have been practically
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: impossible to prove a shooting more likely because you may
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: have found a bullet. A neighbor says her husband saw
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: the smoke, saw the smoke from the Colts Neck home
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: and ran to help. She said. The husband claims the
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: door was open, and the husband starts screaming, is anybody here?
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Is anybody here? And then he calls nine one one.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Then he saw what was the left of a body.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: We're learning so much more right now, we're learning that
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: the two little children, Yes eleven Sophia eight, also murdered
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: in their two million dollar home at Willowbrook Roads. If
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: you have a house that's almost two million dollars, that
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: it's packed tightly with video and security, and there's so
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: much of that going on. I know for a fact
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: that at the first house that there was security there.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: I think of what these two brothers did for a living.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: They worked for a company called Square One, which was
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: a tech consulting firm, so they had all this high
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: tech stuff, Especially at the seven hundred thousand dollar house.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: They said that he had infrared on different floors and
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: security cameras. I think the MoMA's County prosecutor, I think
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: that if there are videos and surveillance, they are keeping
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: it very tight. So I just picked up on something
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: you said. Robin Willinski joining me, investigative reporter with Crime
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Online dot Com, where you can find this and all
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: other breaking crime injustice news. Kathleen Murphy with me, North
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Carolina family lawyer and forensics expert, Joseph Scott Morgan also
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: with me, Jackie Howard here in the studio, and Alan
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: joining me from La Robin, you mentioned that both of
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: the brothers weren't for the same tech company. Tell me
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, Well, the brother who's dead teeth, the
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: fifty year old, he's highly educated. He went to Columbia
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: University undergrad. Annie had a master's degree from there, and
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: he was the big earner brother, the younger brother by
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: only a year. There were three brothers. There's the fifty
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: one year old, the fifty year old, and then there's
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: a younger brother who they say is not involved in this,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: but they founded. The guy with the master's degree from Columbia,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: he founded this company. It was based in Asbury Park,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: also in Mammoth County, called Square one, a tech consulting firm,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: and he was the CEO and founder, and brother Paul,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: who's still alive, was the vice president. So even though
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: he was older, he had the second tier, you know,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: title at the company. So was there jealousy there? Who knows?
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Also they ran a pest control company. And if you
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: go online to Square one, Nancy, and you look it
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: up at Asbury Park in big red letters. This morning,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: I looked it up, it says permanently closed. Mumm both
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: brothers working at Square one tech company, clearly making a
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: very lucrative living, one and a two million dollar home,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: one and a seven hundred thousand dollar home. How did
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: they both go up in flames within hours of each other?
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: One entire family, the family of Keith Canaro, the older brother,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: all killed. Listen. The additional charges have been filed against
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Paul Canaro, and he's been served with those charges while
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: he's detained at the Monmoth County Correctional Institute Here in Freehold.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: We have charged defendant Canaro with four counts of murder,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: one count of aggravated arson, one count of possession of
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: a firearm for an unlawful purpose, and one count of
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: possession of a knife for an unlawful purpose. These charges
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: that were filed this morning are in addition to the
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: charge that was filed last week out of Ocean Township
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: for the alleged aggravated arson of the defendant's own home.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: And by filing these charges, the state alleges that the
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: defendant murdered his brother, Keith Canaro, and Keith's entire family,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: his two children, Sophia and Jesse, and his wife Jennifer,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: during the early morning hours of Tuesday, November twentieth. Specifically,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: we alleged that the defendant repeatedly shot and killed his
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: brother while he was outside of the side of his home,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: and then moved to murder the rest of the family
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: inside the home. We alleged that Jennifer was shot and
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: stabbed and the two Canaro children were repeatedly stabbed by knife.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: We also alleged that after murdering the Canaro family, the
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: defendant then set fire to the house at fifteen Willowbrook
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: and Coltsneck in an effort to conceal and disguise his
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: earlier committing crimes. Keith Canaro he said that he started
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: loving computers and tech when he worked as a janitor
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: at a computer store for free as a teenager, while
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: also working at fast food restaurants. Wow, So he worked
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: as a janitor for free at a tech company because
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: he loved computers. He was willing to sweep in, mop
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: floors and clean bathrooms just to be around the tech business.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Working as a janitor for free, making money working at
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: a restaurant. Boy, I've done that, and being a working
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: at a restaurant is not easy. So long story short,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: we're getting a picture. A picture of these two brothers.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: The older brother, Columbia educated Keith was the best man
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: at Paul's wedding back in nineteen ninety one. I found
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: that in a wedding announcement in the Staten Island Advance
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: they were very very close. This is what we're finding out,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: another bizarre twist. I hope you're sitting down. The Monmouth
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: County Prosecutor says that he's now facing four counts of murder,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: a count of aggravated arson, and one count of an
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: illegal firearm for an illegal purpose. He's accused of shooting
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: his brother outside of his home in Colt's Neck, shooting
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: his brother's wife and stabbing her as well, and also
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: repeatedly stabbing their two young children. Now he was supposed
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: to appear at court Wednesday, but his lawyer asked that
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: the hearing beheld Friday instead. After he was giving undisclosed
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: evidence by prosecutors, Keith Canaro was found dead from a
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: gunshot wound in the yard of his home in Colt's
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Neck while it burned. His wife and two children all
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: found dead inside. Again, the Mammouth County Prosecutor confirming that
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Paul Canaro's now charged with four counts of murder along
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: with possession of a firearm and a possession of a
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: firearm for unlawful purposes. Everyone in mourning. But while the community, relatives, family, friends,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: neighbors mourning the death of the Keith Canaro family, Keith, wife, Jennifer,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: two little children, ages eleven and eight, a homicide investigation
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: is ongoing. Right now. We know the brother of the
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: millionaire found shot dead in his burning mansion, his wife
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: and his children stabbed dead. The brother has been charged
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: in a bizarre twist. Oh, my son, you know what
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: two old adages come to mind, Robert Wilensky. Oh, would
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: have tangled webb we weave when first we practice two
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: deceive and familiarity breeds contempt. These two brothers. Now that
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: the brother, Paul Knaro, charged with burning up his own home.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: He was stumbled out of his home earlier that day.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: This is about one hour before his brother's house caught
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: on fire, saying it must have been a gas leak.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: He was seen leaving. You know what is so tangled up,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Robert Wilensky, Crime Online dot Com investigative reporter. To untangle
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: it well, The Mamas County Prosecutor has connected the dots
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: with his many investigators on this case. In Cultsneck, New Jersey,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: and Paul Knaro is charged. The older brother is now
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: charged with four counts of murder Nancy. This is for
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: allegedly killing his younger brother, Keith fifty there year a
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: part of his wife, Jennifer forty five years old, and
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: the two little kids, little Jesse who was eleven and
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: Sophia just eight years old in the third grade. All dead,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: stop hold on, Joe s got Morgan my dad, who
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: I missed horribly, horribly recently. It was the mark that
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: he passed away. I remember my dad, who worked on
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: the railroad forty three years and my mom, who worked,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: as you know, in a payroll at a canning company,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: got me a car. It was almost time for me
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: to go to college and they got me a blue,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: metallic blue Toyota Corolla. And I could not believe it.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: And I remember he didn't cry, but he showed it
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  Speaker 1: to me and his eyes watered up. How long did
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: he work to buy me a car? Joe Scott, I mean,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: when I think about it now, that's a big deal
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  Speaker 1: for people that never missed, were that are there in
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: the morning at seven and don't get home till seven
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: at night. That's a big deal, right you remember getting
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: your first car? Yeah? Yeah, Actually, I dude, Nancy, all
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: those many years ago, when dinosaurs still run the earth,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: it was it was a big deal to me because
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: it represented freedom to me, and I knew that, I
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: knew the work that had gone in behind it. I
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: was made to appreciate it because I had to restore
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: my first car that I ever had. It was bought
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: as a piece of junk. And oh I wish I
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: only could have done that Joscot, because I didn't even
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: know about oil until my motor practically burned up on
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: the interstate. But that's a whole nother ken Arms Robert Willinski.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Let me get off my mom and dad giving me
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: my blue Toyota and back on. You said, he's a
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: big fish in a little pond. Back to untangling this mess. Yeah, Nancy,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: so Paul, according to the neighbors with the two daughters
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: driving the Porsches, and he's you know, it's just throwing
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: money around like it's candy. And he's a big, big
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: fish in a little pond in Oceans Township, again a
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: very nice area to live, upper middle class people. But
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: this is not the brother Keith his younger brother, who's
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: a You have to look at the family tree very closely.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: They're a year apart. But the second oldest is the CEO.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: He's the founder of the company. He's the one who
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: went to Columbia undergrad. He's the one who has a
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: master's degree from Columbia. So the second brother living in
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: the two million dollar house. Oh and by the way,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: according to court records, two years ago, they paid off
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: their one point eight million dollar loan to the bank.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: So this second brother is darn can you imagine. I
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: know what my mortgage is. It's certainly not one point
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: eight million, and we haven't paid at off. Now, hold on,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: let me get this straight. Let me get this straight.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: This goes back to Kane and Abel for Pete's sake.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: In Genesis, you've got the older brother is Paul Canaro,
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: who's now charged with the death of the Keith Canaro family.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: That's the older brother, the big fish in the little pond,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: the one that neighbors say was quote enamored with the money. Okay,
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: but then you've got the younger brother who founded Square one,
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: who's living in the two million dollar home ten miles away,
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: who went to Columbia who started the business. So the
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: older brother, we could assume sits buying Steve's while his
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: younger brother supersedes him. I am I getting it right.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: That is exactly correct, Nancy. So you need to look
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: at that family dynamic. The police officers need to interview
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: other relatives, people who know the communities. Koltsneck is at
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: a whole different level. When you are living in Coultsneck,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: like Bruce Springsteen lives in Coltsneck in a multimillion dollar home,
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: you have made it. You know that. That is you
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: know the epitome. You're living in Buckhead or Brookhaven, Georgia,
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: where all the wealthy people live. That is the right
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: side of town. Not to say where Ocean Township where
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Paul is living seven hundred thousand dollars house, very nice,
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: but there he could really be y and a show
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: off compared to the homes of his neighbors. That's the
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: dynamic that needs to be investigated by the prosecutor's office
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: in mom of the County. Let me understand this, Am
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: I expected to believe? Is any defense attorney gonna tell me?
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: I guess they are? Kathleen Murphy, you're the lawyer here,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: I'm just an old trial lawyer trying to make sense
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: of it all. Somebody going to try and tell me
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: that these two house fires of two brothers, where the
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: first one is the older brother, okay, and then the
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: brother's home being burned down and he's shot and all
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: three family members stabbed it, including the children, are not connected. Well,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: there's another detail there too, and that is that the
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: older brother who had his home set on fire early
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: in the morning, was missing for a period of time
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: between twelve noon and after his other brother's house was
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: on fire. He was gone. He was gone from his
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: home that had been in cart incinerated. So where was
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: he during the period of time between when his house
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: caught on fire and when his brother's house caught on fire? Well,
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: can you tell me, Robin Linski about gas cans? Right, So,
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: when the fire fighters show up at the first house
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: at five o'clock in the morning, they find gas cans
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: behind this guy's house, behind Paul's house. The timeline is such.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: The first fire is five am. The second fire, I
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: believe was called in at twelve noon. There's a seven
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: hour timeline in between these two fires. Neighbors put Paul
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: still in the neighborhood up until around ten or eleven
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning, because he's out there consoling the
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: wife and the daughters and everybody's shaken up. They've gotten
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: out of the house. They're giving statements, this, that, and
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: the other. They're sitting in the car because it's called out.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: So the question is where does where is he for
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: those last hour to two hours before the other house
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: fire starts. We don't know. Again, I believe that surveillance
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: cameras are going to tell the tale of this. We
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: wait as justice unfolds. Take a listen to Mammoth County
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: Prosecutor Christopher Grahamacione. Now, understandably many have questioned and wondered
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: about a motive to these alleged crimes. Based on our
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: investigation to date, we believe that the defendant's motive was
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: financial in nature, stemming from his and the victims joint
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: business ventures that they owned and operated out of Asbury Park.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: As a result, we have also launched a financial investigation
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: into the business and financial dealings of the defendant. Now,
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: with these types of investigations, they take time, so I
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: won't be able to provide any further information as to
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: motive at this point in time, but I would encourage
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: you to continue to follow this case as it proceeds
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: through the criminal justice system. As court appearances occur, there
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: will likely be informations that's presented on the record by
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: the state in this case. Bringing together a case like
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: this takes a true team effort, and I'm honored to
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: be joined by some of the agency heads, detectives and
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: proces cuts, all of whom played a vital role in
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: bringing this case to a head with these charges today.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: The investigation necessarily required the support of a number of
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: law enforcement partners who stand with me here today, and
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: I would like to personally commend them and give them
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: our thanks. Right now, relatives preparing for a funeral. Four caskets,
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: including two tiny ones, will be rolled out of the
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: Holmdale Funeral Home as the brother sits in jail. Nancy
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: Grace Crime Story signing off goodbye friend.