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Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm read Carter Friday, February sixth,
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twenty twenty six. We have to start with the story
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gripping the entire country. Nancy Guthrie, eighty four years old,
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mother of Today's Show host Savannah Guthrie, has been missing
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for five days. Abducted from her home outside Tucson, Arizona.
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Blood found inside the house, pacemaker disconnected around two am.
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Ransom notes sent to at least three media outlets demanding
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millions in bitcoin. Savannah and her siblings released a tearful
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video pleading for their mother's return. President Trump called Savannah personally,
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directed all federal law enforcement to assist fb I on scene.
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Press conference scheduled for today. This is a developing story,
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with disturbing details emerging by the hour. In New Jersey,
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the mansion murder's trial of Paul Canaro is now in
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its fourth week. It's been a week since we brought
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you updates. What's happened since is horrific autopsy testimony. Eight
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year old Sophia Canio suffered seventeen stab wounds over her
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entire forty five pound body, defensive injuries. She fought back
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her brother Jesse eleven, was a mobile blood source, moving
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around the kitchen, leaving blood on surfaces, tracking toward the
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front door trying to escape. Both children had smoke inhalation
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as a contributing factor because the fire was set while
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they were still alive. DNA from both children found on
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jeans in their uncle Paul's basement. The prosecution's case is
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devastating and in Ohio, eighty three year old William Brock
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was sentenced to twenty one years to life for fatally
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shooting an Uber driver. Both were victims of a phone scam,
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but only one survived. The story is as tragic as
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it is infuriating. I'm reed Carter today. A desperate search,
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a devastating trial, and a sentencing that has no winners.
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This is celebrity trials. January thirty first, twenty twenty six,
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Saturday night, Catalina Foothills, Arizona, unincorporated community north of Tucson,
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desert landscape, saguaro cactus, secluded homes, set back from the road,
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the kind of place people moved to for peace and quiet.
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Nancy Guthrie, eighty four years old, was dropped off at
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her home by family members around nine thirty to nine
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forty five pm after dinner together, normal evening, normal routine,
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good night, see you tomorrow. She never made it to
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church the next morning, February first, Sunday, when Nancy didn't
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show up for services, a church member called her relatives.
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Family went to the house around eleven am. Found it empty,
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Nancy's personal belonging still inside, her phone, her medication, signs
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of forced entry, a rear door left open. Nancy Guthrie
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has limited mobility. Sheriff Chris Nanos said she couldn't walk
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fifty yards. This wasn't a woman who wandered off. She
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was taken. Family called nine one one around noon. Pima
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County Sheriff's Department responded, deployed search and rescue teams K
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nine units, drones, helicopter, airplane, US Customs and Border Protection assisting.
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Given the proximity to the Mexican border, volunteers full scale search.
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By February second, authorities called off the physical search transitioned
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from search operation to criminal investigation because what they found
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inside the house told a different story than a missing person.
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Blood inside Nancy's home, whose blood and where exactly hasn't
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been disclosed publicly. Her security cameras had been disabled, and
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her pacemaker, which sends regular signals to a monitoring app
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on her iPhone, stopped transmitting around two ADAS on February first.
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Her phone was left in the house, so between nine
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forty five pm Saturday, when family dropped her off and
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two am Sunday, when her pacemaker went dark, someone entered
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Nancy Guthrie's home, disabled the cameras and took her. Then
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the ransom notes arrived. At least three media outlets TMZ
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and two CNN twoson affiliates KOLD and kg u N
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reported receiving ransom notes demanding millions of dollars in bitcoin
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for Nancy's safe return. The notes reportedly contained specific details
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about evidence found in Guthrie's home and what she was
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wearing the night she disappeared. A cryptocurrency address was included,
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a deadline was set. Sheriff Nanos has declined to confirm
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whether the details in the notes matched the crime scene,
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but he told CBS News investigators shared the notes with
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Savannah Guthrie, and he said he was absolutely not dismissing them.
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Wednesday night, February fourth, Savannah Guthrie and her siblings Annie
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and Cameron released a video on Instagram. The Today Show
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host was tearful, direct desperate. She described her mother as
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a kind, faithful, loyal, fiercely loving woman, then addressed her
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mother's medical needs. Nancy requires medication to manage serious health conditions.
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Her heart is fragile, she lives in constant pain. Without
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her medication, she cannot survive. Then Savannah addressed the kidnapper
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directly reference the ransom notes, said the family is ready
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to talk, but they need proof of life first. We
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need to know without a doubt that she is alive
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and that you have her. We want to hear from you,
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and we are ready to listen. Please reach out to us.
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Hours later, President Trump posted on truth Social said he'd
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spoken with Savannah personally. I am directing all federal law
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enforcement to be at the families and local law enforcements
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complete disposal immediately. We are deploying all resources to get
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her mother home safely. Yesterday, FBI agents returned to Nancy's
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home with canine units for a renewed search, notable because
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the sheriff had previously said police completed their search of
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the property. Crime scene tape went up across the entire
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length of the property. A dozen law enforcement officers on
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scene for about two hours, evidence bags carried in and out.
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The FBI's Special Agent in charge from the Phoenix office
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was at the Guthrie family home where the video was recorded.
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This is being treated as a major case federal resources
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full investigative weight, but five days in no suspects have
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been identified, no persons of interest named. The Sheriff's department
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pushed back on Wednesday against rumors circulating about who might
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be responsible, saying they are speaking with anyone who may
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have had contact with Missus Guthrie and asking the public
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not to spread unverified accusations or false information. Journalist Ashley
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Banfield reported that a high level law enforcement source said
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investigators were examining the possible involvement of Nancy's son in law,
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but that information is described as preliminary and subject to change.
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Hundreds gathered for a candlelight vigil Wednesday night, praying for
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Nancy's return. Savannah's Today's Show colleagues honored her faith On air,
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Jenna bush Hager said all of Savannah's friends are rallying
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around her. Savannah Guthrie has stepped away from her NBC
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duties She was supposed to co host the opening ceremonies
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of the twenty twenty six Winter Olympics. Instead, she's searching
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for her mother. Here's what we know. An eighty four
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year old woman with limited mobility and serious health conditions
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was taken from her home in the middle of the night.
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Blood was found inside, Cameras were disabled, her pacemaker went
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dark at two a m. Ransom notes were sent to
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media outlets, and five days later nobody knows where she
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is or if she's alive. Nancy Guthrie is eighty four
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years old, five foot five, one hundred and fifty pounds,
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brown hair, blue eyes. She cannot survive without her medication.
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Every hour that passes makes this more desperate. If you
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have any information, contact the Pima County Sheriff's Department or
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the FBI. This is a story we'll be following closely.
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Press conference scheduled for this afternoon will bring you any developments.
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We'll be right back with the Mansion murders trial update,
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autopsy testimony you won't forget, and an eleven year old
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boy who tried to escape his killer. Welcome back to
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celebrity trials. I'm reed Carter Monmouth County, New Jersey. The
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Mansion Murders trie Le State versus Paul Kniro, now in
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its fourth week of testimony. Quick recap for anyone just
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joining us. November twentieth, twenty eighteen, Paul Canaro, now fifty nine,
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is accused of murdering his brother Keith fifty, sister in
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law Jennifer forty five, and their children Jesse eleven and
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Sophia eight, shot and stabbed to death in their Colt's
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neck mansion house set on fire. Paul's own home and
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Ocean township also set ablaze the same morning. Prosecution says
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Paul did it all. Defense says police ignored other suspects,
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including a third Canaro brother. We covered the opening weeks,
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the financial motive, Keith's angry phone calls demanding to know
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where missing money went, the altered bank statements, the fire
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marshal's testimony about Paul's burned hands that he claimed weren't burns,
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surveillance footage showing Paul in his garage moments before his
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home camera system went dark, and a neighbor hearing gunshots
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and thinking someone just go he got whacked. Since our
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last update, the testimony has been devastating. Let me walk
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you through it. Blood pattern evidence. Detective Joseph Cordoma testified
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about what he found inside Keith's kitchen. Blood Stained patterns
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indicated eleven year old Jesse Kaniro was what investigators call
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a mobile blood source, moving around the kitchen island, leaving
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blood on surfaces, tracking blood toward the foyer, toward the
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front door. Jesse was trying to escape. An eleven year
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old boy stabbed bleeding, was trying to get to the
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front door. His body was found at the base of
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the kitchen island. He didn't make it. Jennifer Kanniro's family
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left the courtroom before the detective finished explaining his conclusions.
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They couldn't listen to what happened to that child. Cordoma
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also testified the mansion fire was intentionally set in a
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basement storage closet around three am. The Verizon line was
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cut to prevent the alarm from transmitting. The fire was
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designed to burn slowly for hours. By the time firefighters
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arrived after noon, the evidence was supposed to be destroyed.
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Keith's computer server went offline at three eighteen am. The
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killer was methodical. Then came the weapons evidence, A State
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Police ballistics expert testified about bullets recovered from the colt's
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neck home. Bullet fragments pulled from both Keith and Jennifer's
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heads and bodies were too small for traditional comparison, could
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only be weighed and described, but other bullets and casings
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found at the scene were tested and found to have
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been fired from the same barrel of a nine millimeter
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semi automatic handgun. Here's the connection. A silencer barrel was
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recovered from Paul Kanero's Porscha macn a sig sour handgun
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found in his home's basement. When experts fired ammunition also
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taken from the Ocean Township home through that gun, the
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results matched the patterns of the recovered bullets, same caliber,
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same weapon characteristics. The bullets that killed Keith and Jennifer
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matched the gun and silencer found in Paul's possession. DNA
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evidence followed. Four members of the State Police Office of
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Forensic Sciences testified about results from a pair of bloodstained
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genes salvaged from a frozen pile of clothing in Paul
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Kannaro's basement. DNA from Sophia and Jesse Canaro was found
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on those genes. The children's DNA on their uncle's pants
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hidden in his basement. The defense has been fighting the
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DNA methodology. The state used str mixed software to interpret
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the profiles. Defense attorneys have repeatedly pointed out that investigators
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never collected a DNA sample from Corey Kannaro, the third brother.
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If you can exclude someone, the defense argues, you can't
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be certain about your results. But prosecutors countered that str
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mix was able to exclude Keith Kniero, the victim's father,
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as a DNA contributor to the samples on those genes.
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If the software can exclude one brother, it can identify
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contributors reliably. Lead investigator Lieutenant Patrick Petruzziello took the stand
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and rejected the defense theory outright. When asked about Corey
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Kaneiro as a potential suspect, the lieutenant didn't hesitate. Corey
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Kaneiro was never a suspect in this investigation. We followed
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the evidence, the evidence. It always led us to Paul Kniro.
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Then this week, the autopsy testimony, the most gut wrenching
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evidence in this trial. Acting Chief Medical Examiner Alex Jeong
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described Keith Caniro's injuries first five gunshot wounds, three to
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the right side of his head, one to his neck,
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one to his lower back, shot at close range. Prosecutors
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say Keith was lured outside after three am because the
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killer had cut the power to the house and switched
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off the backup generator. Keith went outside to investigate, was
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shot and killed in his own front yard. Jennifer Caniro
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was found on the stairs leading from the basement to
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the first floor, shot in the head, stabbed multiple times,
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extensive charring from the fire that was set in the
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basement closet just feet from where she fell. Her cause
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of death blood loss from the gunshot and stab wounds.
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Then the children. Doctor Lauren Toma, Deputy Chief Medical Examiner,
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described eleven year old Jesse's injuries stab wounds to his
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torso and left arm, an injury to his chin that
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bore similarity to a gunshot wound, though she wasn't comfortable
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documenting it definitively as one. Visible soot in his airway.
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Carbon monoxide screening confirmed smoke inhalation as a contributing factor
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in his death. The main cause stab wounds. Jesse was
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stabbed left bleeding in the kitchen the fire was set,
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and while the fire burned slowly through the basement and
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up through the house, Jesse Caniro, eleven years old, already wounded,
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was trying to crawl to the front door. The blood
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trail proves it. He died at the base of the
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kitchen island. The fire eventually reached him and finally eight
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year old Sophia junk Ti testified that Sophia's entire forty
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five pound body suffered injuries seventeen stab wounds, including to
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her face. Her right leg showed wounds consistent with defensive injuries.
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An eight year old girl was fighting back against her killer,
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trying to protect herself, using her legs and arms to
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ward off a knife. A blood stained purple shirt the
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child had been wearing was briefly shown to the jury
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between photos of the actual stab wounds. Paul Canaro was
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seen wiping his eyes a box of tissues next to him.
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At the defense table. Sophia's carbon monoxide screening showed forty
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nine percent. Jong testified that forty percent is enough to
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die from smoke inhalation alone. Her official cause of death
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sharp force injuries and smoke inhalation. She was stabbed seventeen times,
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then left in a burning house. The fire was a
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contributing factor because she was still alive when it was set.
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Both children were alive when the fire started. The killer
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stabbed them and left them to burn. The prosecution's case
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is building methodically. Financial motive. Paul was stealing from the business. Accounts, opportunity,
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surveillance and phone data place him at the scene. Physical evidence,