Anastasia Nicolazzi
speaker
1,398 appearances
24 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Jun 2025
Anastasia Nicolazzi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsNo recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.
Appearances
And that was around this time that Grant's brother Cody had expressed to his girlfriend that his youngest brother's increasingly erratic behavior was starting to get frightening. And he even feared for his family's safety.
An angry and increasingly unstable young man in a house full of guns. It was a dangerous combination and it might have proved deadly. According to Cody Amato's girlfriend, on January 24th, his father had finally issued an ultimatum to his troubled youngest son. Grant had to move out. The family would no longer tolerate his obsessive and criminal behavior.
Now, the troubling backstory on Grant's relationship with his family was still in the process of being fully uncovered in the hours after the discovery of the murders. But just his absence from the scene made it imperative for law enforcement to locate him.
The fact that he was at a hotel by the airport was already a clue that Grant was demonstrating the behavior of someone on the run. So police approached carefully, more than aware that the 29-year-old was likely desperate and probably armed.
But I will say, and of course, it's never one size fits all, he also doesn't behave like someone who would have just learned that both his parents and his older brother had just been murdered, a fact that was not lost on investigators in the room.
Grant tried to establish an alibi for the day of the murder, but both the information he was providing and the way he provided it, they just weren't that convincing.
Considering Cody had never shown signs of depression or self-harm behavior, it was at least on its face a pretty unconvincing and even outrageous suggestion.
But Grant's suggestion did support the theory that staging a murder-suicide was indeed part of the killer's plan to get away with the homicide.
Horrific pictures of his own father in a pool of blood on the kitchen floor, his brother curled up in the room off the garage, and his mother, the woman who tried so hard to save him from his own demons, face down on her desk. Photos that would be disturbing to anyone, let alone a family member.
But in the interview room, they were met with a blank stare and then a half-hearted attempt at genuine emotion.
And of course, investigators cannot use a person's silence against them. But if a person is confronted with something that awful and shocking, sometimes a glaring silence, at least out of the courtroom, can start to feel like a tacit admission of guilt.
But while the circumstantial evidence against him was substantial, including his history of conflict with his parents, his financial motive, and his lack of a strong alibi, there still wasn't any direct evidence to either tie him to the crime scene or disprove his alibi.
And this is another one of those examples where sometimes the pace of criminal justice can seem frustratingly slow. But as a prosecutor, I can tell you it is crucial to first gather enough evidence and also to manage the ticking clock between arrest and trial.
According to the arrest affidavit, Grant Amato's response was that his family had been blaming him for ruining their lives, stealing and not following the rules of their home. So he might as well, quote, be blamed for this too.
So essentially, the prosecution was still collecting evidence in the immediate lead up to the actual trial. Not uncommon at all. But here it was also trying to gather the pieces of evidence that might prove pivotal in that trial. So talk about a ticking clock.
There was even disturbing evidence that hours after he had returned home, Chad Amato's fingerprint had been used to access his bank account. The implications? That his son Grant had pressed his dead father's finger to his phone to access his money. It's almost too horrible to imagine.
But it wasn't all digital forensics that was pointing to Grant Amato's guilt. Because just before the start of the trial, investigators finally made the most important discovery of all, the murder weapon.
The gun that had disappeared belonged to a friend of Grant's, and its ammunition was a match to the projectiles found at the crime scene.
So given both the physical and circumstantial evidence collected, what did the prosecution believe happened on January 24th, 2019 at the Amato home?
Just to stop for a moment here, the wonders of technology never cease to amaze me. Just think about this, Scott. Your watch or your phone can now accurately paint a picture of not only your day, but down to the path you walk and the number of steps you take.
Showing 701–720 of 1,398 · page 36 of 70
← Previous
Next →