Anastasia Nicolazzi
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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I'm Anastasia Nicolazzi, former New York City homicide prosecutor and host of Investigation Discovery's True Conviction.
According to a report published by the Council of Criminal Justice, a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, D.C., there has been a notable decrease in crimes committed by juvenile offenders over the last decade. The one exception? Homicides.
Even more distressing is the fact that a large portion of those homicide victims were also young people.
It's a skill set that prepared him well for a career as a homicide investigator.
And as Pedro can attest, it's also a wonderful place to call home and raise a family, as evidenced by the increasing number of high school-aged kids in Broward County and surrounding areas.
Dwight and his mom lived in an apartment complex that was home to a lot of similar families, working parents and independent children who were often responsible for getting themselves to and from school, taking care of younger siblings, and even taking on part-time jobs.
Dwight's mom came home to a quiet house, and her calls to her son were going unanswered. And while that might have been typical behavior for many teenagers, in Dwight's case, it was cause for concern.
But from law enforcement's point of view, Dwight could not yet technically be considered missing.
And until now, she believed she had done a good job of shielding her son from these dangers. Dwight liked computers. He liked to game. He was a bit of a homebody.
Another day passed, and Dwight's family and friends spent it passing out flyers and searching for him on foot. Dwight's mom was absolutely sick with worry, and she was also not the kind to just sit on her hands.
Her mother's intuition had been right. Her son had been in danger, and it was not the police, but her, his mom, that discovered the evidence that Dwight was not just missing, he was the victim of a crime.
The officer went straight to the office of the property manager where the security footage was queued up.
Protecting the integrity of a potential crime scene is a critical priority of any first responder. But in this case, creating that wide perimeter with crime scene tape also enabled the officer to make a shocking discovery.
His suspicion was that this was evidence of a violent and bloody attack, but it would take an examination of the unidentified body to know for sure.
But one thing was obvious. The young man had been severely beaten and stabbed multiple times, once in the neck and once in the chest. And it appeared he had been dead for at least 48 hours.
And while investigators didn't know for sure if the victim was the missing teenager Dwight Grant, Pedro still had the responsibility of speaking to Dwight's mother and breaking the news to her about what they had discovered.
And that information came in the form of fingerprints. And sadly, the body left in the bushes was positively identified as 18-year-old Dwight Grant.
According to Pedro, the first clue to who could have perpetrated such a heartless and brutal crime was revealed in the nature of the crime scene itself.
The key in identifying Dwight's assailants would prove to be the security video of the attack. But not only was the video grainy, but the attackers appeared to be wearing hoodies and masks, disguising their identities.
A few minutes elapsed before you see Dwight walking out of the hallway of his building and into the stairwell. And he's actually seen carrying a female in the way that a friend might give someone a piggyback. Clearly, Dwight was not aware of what awaited him around the corner.
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