"SAVANNAH'S MOM STILL MISSING, MANSION MURDERER GUILTY & AU PAIR'S MAXIMUM SENTENCE SHOCKS COURTROOM"

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm read Carter Tuesday, February seventeenth, twenty twenty six. Hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend. Courts were closed yesterday for President's Day, but the news didn't stop. Let me catch you up on three major stories from last week. Savannah Guthrie's mother is still missing. Nancy Guthrie, eighty four years old, vanished from her Arizona home on February first. Over two weeks now, FBI analyzing DNA from a glove found near the home that appears to match one worn by a masked suspect captured on doorbell camera footage.

0:44 Savannah posting video after video on Instagram pleading with whoever took her mother to do the right thing. No leading theory, no suspects identified. An eighty four year old woman with a pacemaker who needs daily medication gone. Friday was verdict day in two major cases. Paul Knaro, fifty nine, convicted of four counts of first degree murder in the Colt's Neck Mansion murders. Shot his brother Keith in the front yard, stabbed his sister in law Jennifer, stabbed his eleven year old nephew Jesse and eight year old niece Sophia, then set both homes on fire to cover it up. All over stolen business money. Jury deliberated five hours guilty on everything, same day, same courtroom, energy, different state. Juliana Paris Magilhays, the Brazilian ou pair who helped her lover Brendan Banfield, murder his wife and an innocent stranger, sentenced to ten years in prison maximum under her plea deal. Judge Penny Askarat rejected prosecutor's recommendation of time served and told her she deserves nothing other than incarceration and a life of reflection.

1:53 Prosecutors wanted her to walk free. The judge said absolutely not. I'm read Carter today. A missing mother, a mansion murderer, and an o pair who thought cooperation would set her free. This is Celebrity Trials. February first, twenty twenty six. Somewhere in Arizona, Nancy Guthrie, eighty four years old, mother of Today's show co host Savannah Guthrie, disappeared from her home over two weeks later. Nobody knows where she is, whether she's alive, who took her, or why. Here's what we know. Doorbell camera footage from Nancy's home captured a masked person outside the residence the morning she vanished, wearing gloves face covered.

2:40 The FBI released that footage publicly, hoping someone would recognize the build, the gait, the clothing. So far, nothing definitive, but there's a break in the evidence. A glove was recovered near Nancy Guthrie's home. FBI says it appears to visually match the gloves worn by the suspect in the doorbell camera. Footage from that glove is now being analyzed. The DNA will be run through CODIS, the FBI's combined DNA index system, which holds more than nineteen million offender profiles. If whoever touched that glove has a criminal history, there could be a match. If not, authorities will also submit the evidence to third party DNA mapping services, the same genealogical approach that helped identify Brian Koberger in the Idaho murders.

3:27 Even if the suspect never submitted their own DNA, a family member might have and that's enough to start narrowing the field. How fast will results come? Former Fort Worth Police Chief Jeffrey Halsted told CNN. It could be anywhere from twenty four to forty eight hours, depending on the quality of the sample. The urgency of this case could expedite testing, but even touch DNA the kind you'd leave on a glove, can be significant if it ties directly to the person on camera. Meanwhile, Savannah Guthrie is doing what any daughter would do, fighting publicly, painfully. She's posted at least nine videos on Instagram since her mother disappeared, each one more heartbreaking than the last. The latest video, posted late last week, speaks directly to whoever has her mother.

4:14 It is never too late to do the right thing, she said. You're not lost or alone, and it is never too late to do the right thing. Former FBI crisis negotiator Kyle Vowinkle analyzed the video, said Savannah is trying to give whoever took her mother a psychological off ramp, an appeal to whatever shred of decency might still exist in the person holding an eighty four year old woman. Vowinkel said she's appealing to the isolation of the captor while offering them a way to end this without making it worse. Earlier videos humanized Nancy showed childhood photos, family memories reminded whoever is watching that this is a real person, a mother, a grandmother, someone who matters to people. Later videos pivoted to asking the public for help, asking anyone who noticed anything strange around February first to contact law enforcement.

5:09 Three major challenges are complicating this investigation. First, Nancy's safety. She's eighty four, has a pacemaker, needs daily medication. Every day that passes without those medications increases the danger. Investigators are operating blind on her condition and location. Second, the sheer volume of leads. Tens of thousands of tips have poured in. That sounds like good news, and it is, but it also buries investigators in information that has to be sorted, verified and pursued. Sometimes the most important tip is buried under ten thousand useless ones. The only way to find it is to go through every single one third the fish bowl. This is the mother of one of the most recognizable television journalists in America. Media attention is enormous, public in interest is intense, and that makes it incredibly difficult for investigators to hold back information that needs to stay behind the curtain. Every detail that leaks could compromise the investigation. Every press conference could tip off whoever has Nancy. Investigators have not identified a leading motive.

6:18 They're looking at all possibilities, kidnapping for ransom, targeted attack, random crime. Nothing has been ruled out. Nothing has been confirmed. Nancy Guthrie is eighty four years old. She should be watching her daughter on the Today Show, should be enjoying her grandchildren, should be safe in her own home. Instead, she's been missing for over two weeks, and her daughter is on Instagram speaking into a camera begging a stranger to show mercy. If you have any information about Nancy Guthrie's disappearance, contact the FBI. Any detail, no matter how small a car, You saw a person who seemed out of place, something you overheard. It might be the tip that brings her home. Someone has to say her name.

7:03 Nancy Guthrie, eighty four years old. Missing. We'll be right back with Friday's guilty verdict in the Colt's Neck Mansion murders. Paul Canero convicted of slaughtering his brother's entire family over stolen money, then setting both homes on fire. Welcome back to celebrity trials. I'm reed, Carter Friday, February thirteenth, Monmouth County, New Jersey. After five hours of deliberation, a jury convicted Paul Caniro of four counts of first degree murder, two counts of aggravated arson, weapons charges, theft, and hindering his own apprehension, guilty on everything. The victims Keith Caniro fifty, Jennifer Caniro forty five, Jesse Caniro eleven, Sophia Canaro row eight, an entire family wiped out November twentieth, twenty eighteen, just days before Thanksgiving. Coltsneck, New Jersey, wealthy community, horse country sprawling estates Keith Canaro's mansion on Willowbrook Road. Fire trucks responding to a blaze at the home around twelve thirty in the afternoon. Keith was found in the front yard, face down, shot once in the back, four times in the head. Inside the burning house, Jennifer shot and stabbed.

8:31 Their children found on different levels of the home. Jesse near the staircase, Sofia on the landing between floors, both stabbed. Sofia had a stab wound to her left eye. She was eight years old. And here's the detail that will haunt you, Prosecutors said, the children were still alive when the fire started. Smoke inhalation was a contributing factor in their deaths. They survived the stabbing long enough to breathe in the flames. Their uncles to cover his crimes. While firefighters were still battling the Colt's neck blaze, police were already at another scene, Paul Kaneiro's home in Ocean Township, about thirty minutes away. A fire had started there around five am that same morning. Paul, his wife, Susan, and their two adult daughters escaped no injuries. Convenient, prosecutors said, Paul set his own house on fire, first made it look like the whole family was being targeted, then drove to his brother's mansion, disabled the electrical service box and turned off the backup generator to lure Keith outside. When Keith came out to check why the power failed, Paul shot him in the front yard, then went inside, killed Jennifer, killed the children, set the house on fire, drove home.

9:47 The motive was money. Keith and Paul were business partners, co owned Square One, a technology firm in Asbury Park, and Eco Star, a pest control company. The Doris Duke Foundation contract made up more than ninety percent of Square One's revenue, and Paul was stealing from both companies. The day before the murders, Keith discovered that premium payments for his three million dollar Canada life insurance policy, held in a trust with Paul as trustee, had never been reaching the insurance company. Paul was pocketing them. Keith called Paul that afternoon. Home security cameras recorded Keith's side of the conversation. I need to know where the money went, Keith yelled, gave Paul a deadline eight pm that night. Paul never responded.

10:35 Eight hours later, he started killing. Detective Debbie Bassenger from the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office traced the finances. Found sixteen transfers from Keith's trust account into Paul's personal account, no payments going back. Bank statements Paul provided to the family accountant had been altered compared to official records from the bank. Paul was cooking the book looks and stealing from his own brother. The evidence was overwhelming. Surveillance video showed Paul's Porsche may Can, identifiable by its distinctive tail lights, leaving his home and returning the mourning of the murders. Neighbors heard gunshots. One neighbor testified he heard the shots and thought someone just got whacked. A container found in Paul's basement held clothing in a latex glove with blood consistent with the victims. A nine millimeter unspent cartridge was found in the clothes, same ammunition type used to kill Keith and Jennifer. Paul's hands were injured. A fire marshal noticed burns.

11:39 Paul claimed he'd hit his hand on a door while evacuating. Nobody believed him. The defense tried to point the finger at a third Caniro brother, who was never investigated. Said police developed tunnel vision, said two men were spotted near Keith's home before first responders arrived. Prosecutors dismantled both theories. The two men were first responders. The third brother wasn't the one Keith called demanding answers about missing money the night before he died. Paul Kniro rejected a plea deal in twenty twenty four. Prosecutors offered life without parole in exchange for guilty Please, he gambled on trial lost. Caniro sat motionless as the jury foreman read the verdict. His family cried, friends cried, He showed nothing. The judge had him taken into custody immediately. Sentencing is May twelfth. He faces multiple life sentences without the possibility of parole. His defense team says they planned to pursue all available post trial remedies translation appeals, but the evidence was overwhelming. Five hours of deliberation for a case this complex tells you everything about how the jury viewed it. Smart enough to plan murder, sophisticated enough to tamper with electrical systems and stage a cover up fire, too stupid to realize that surveillance camera would catch his car, that bloodstained clothing hidden in the basement would be found, and that altered bank statements would be compared to originals. Keith Kniro was fifty

13:09 years old, business owner. Family man Jennifer was forty five. Wife, mother, Jesse, was eleven. Sophia was eight. They were children, stabbed by their uncle, left to die in a fire he set days before Thanksgiving. All because Paul couldn't stop stealing, All because Keith finally asked where the money went. All because greed and desperation turned a brother into a monster. The call is coming from inside the house, Keith, Jennifer, Jesse, Sophia. Someone has to say your names coming up the opair who helped murder her lover's wife gets the maximum sentence. Judge tells Juliana Mogilhayas she deserves nothing but prison. Prosecutors wanted her to walk free. Welcome back to celebrity trials.

14:08 I'm reed, Carter. Also Friday, Fairfax County, Virginia, Chief Judge Penny Askarat sentencing hearing for Juliana Paris Maggle Hays, the twenty five year old Brazilian o pair who helped her employer and lover, Brendan Banfield, murder his wife Christine and an innocent stranger named Joseph Ryan. Prosecutors recommended time served. Mogglehis had been in custody over two years. She'd cooperated, testified at Banfield's trial helped secure the conviction. The deal was plead guilty to manslaughter, testify against Banfield, walk free. At sentencing, Judge Askarot had other ideas ten years maximum sentence under the Plea agreement plus two years suspended. After that, the judge looked at Magglhayes and said, your actions were deliberate, self serving, and demonstrated a found disregard for human life.

15:02 Let's get it straight. You do not deserve anything other than incarceration and a life of reflection on what you have done to the victim and his family. May it weigh heavily on your soul. Prosecutors were stunned they'd made the deal, recommended time served. The judge overruled them. Let me remind you what happened. February twenty fourth, twenty twenty three, Herndon, Virginia, the Banfield Home. Brendan Banfield was an IRS criminal investigator. Christine Banfield was a pediatric intensive care nurse. They had a four year old daughter and they had a no pair, Juliana maglehis who arrived from Brazil and began a sexual affair with Brendan. Within a year, the affair became serious.

15:48 Banfield wanted out of his marriage, but didn't want a divorce, didn't want to split assets, didn't want to share custody, so he devised a plan. According to Magglhays's testimony, Banfield used Christine's laptop to create a profile on fet Life, a fetish dating website. The profile name Anastasia nine. Posing as his wife, Banfield connected with Joseph Ryan, a stranger who was interested in violent role play. They exchanged messages for weeks arranged a meeting at the Banfield home. Ryan was told to bring restraints, a knife, and lubricant. He thought he was meeting a willing participant for consensual fantasy. The morning of February twenty fourth, Banfield left for McDonald's.

16:31 Maggal high Has pretended to take the couple's four year old to the zoo. Christine was home alone when Ryan arrived. He went upstairs to the master bedroom brought exactly what he'd been told to bring. When Magalhays saw Ryan arrive, she called Banfield. He drove home. What happened next is where the stories diverge, but the outcome is undisputed. Banfield shot Ryan in the head, then stabbed Christine multiple times in the neck with the knife Ryan had brought. Maggalhayes fired a second shot into Ryan, killing him. They called nine to one one, told police they'd come home to find a stranger attacking Christine self defense, They said, heroic intervention.

17:13 It took months for investigators to unravel the truth the fet life account the affair, the elaborate catfishing scheme. Maggilhays was arrested in October twenty twenty three. Banfield nearly a year later, in September twenty twenty four, Magalhyas eventually cooperated pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in Ryan's death. Original charge was second degree murder, carrying a potential life sentence. The plea deal dropped it to manslaughter maximum ten years. Prosecutors recommended she walked free after time served. She testified at Banfield's trial in January, told the jury everything, the affair, the fet life scheme, the murder plan. Banfield took the stand and denied it all. Said Christine was the one using fet life, said he came home to find Ryan attacking his wife. Said he acted in self defense. The jury didn't buy it. February second, convicted on all charges, two counts of aggravated murder, automatic life sentence without parole in Virginia. Sentencing May eighth. Then came Friday's hearing from maggle Hays. Joseph Ryan's mother, Deirdre Fischer, gave a victim impact statement. She told the court her son's life was used and thrown away, seen as worthless and disposable by those who carried out his murder. Ryan's aunt spoke through tears, acknowledging Magalhias was a young woman in a foreign country who lost herself in a relationship, but insisting that telling the truth doesn't resolve her responsibility. Magalhyas read a prepared statement,

18:44 apologized to both families, said she lost herself in the relationship, left her morals behind, said she knows her remorse cannot bring any one peace. Judge Ascarate wasn't moved, called the facts the most serious manslaughter scenario she had ever noted that the original charges carried a life sentence plus three years. The manslaughter plea was already an unprecedented reduction time served. On top of that was too much leniency for someone who helped plan and execute a double murder. Until today, you have shown no empathy for the victim in this case, the judge told her. Christine's family had prepared victim impact statements but weren't allowed to speak. Maggalhyas was only charged in Ryan's death, not Christine's. The legal technicality meant the family of the murdered wife had to sit silently while the woman who helped kill her was sentenced. Here's the reality.

19:41 Maggalhays cooperated because she had no choice. She held out for months, wrote letters from jail professing her love for Banfield, vowed to take the blame for both of them, told his mother she'd give up her life for his. It was only when the prospect of spending decades in a Virginia prison became real, when she he was thousands of miles from her family in Brazil with no trial date in sight, that she flipped. She didn't cooperate out of remorse. She cooperated out of self preservation, and the judge saw writ through it. She was even negotiating with TV producers for a documentary deal while in custody, discussing exclusivity contracts with Netflix's representatives, holding out for more money, planning to cash in on the murders she helped commit. The judge knew all of this. Joseph Ryan was a stranger. He showed up at that house thinking he was meeting a willing partner. Instead, he walked into an ambush, shot twice, killed his life, used as a prop in someone else's murder plot. Christine Banfield was a nurse, a mother murdered by her own husband in her own bedroom while her four year old daughter was in the house. Magalhyes helped make it happen, helped create the fake profile, helped lure Ryan, helped stage the scene, then helped raise the daughter of the woman. She helped kids remember that exchange of victim services director overheard between the four year old and Maggle Hyas.

21:06 The child asked, can I call you mommy now? Maggle Hyas said yes, are you going to marry my father? And Magglehay said, I wish that tells you everything about what this was really about. Christine Banfield Joseph Ryan. Two people dead, one because her husband wanted a new life, the other because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, lured there by people he'd never met. Rest in peace to both of them. Someone has to say your names. That's Celebrity Trials for Tuesday, February seventeenth, twenty twenty six. Nancy Guthrie still missing over two weeks.

21:50 FBI analyzing DNA from a glove found near her Arizona home. Savannah Guthrie pleading for her mother's safe return. Paul Kaneiro convicted on all comps ounce four murders. Two arsons killed his brother, sister in law, and their two children overstolen business money. Sentencing May twelfth. And Juliana magilheyis sentenced to ten years maximum under her plea deal. Judge rejected prosecutor's recommendation of time served, told her she deserves nothing but incarceration. I'm reed, Carter tomorrow. More updates as courts reopen after the holiday weekend. This is celebrity trials