Andrea Canning

The prosecution painted a picture that Paul was struggling financially, in over his head, with an expensive lifestyle, learned his business partner, Brother Keith, had plans of not only cutting off his salary, but moving on professionally.

Keith then discovered that Paul was stealing from him, specifically from a life insurance trust fund.

Now, authorities allege that Paul knew that he would benefit from this life insurance policy only if Keith and his entire family were dead.

The defense has floated the theory that the third Canero brother, Corey Canero, also would benefit if Keith had died and that Corey was actually in worse financial situation than Paul.

So they're definitely throwing some some doubt out there that the authorities not only have the wrong brother, but didn't even investigate Corey.

The prosecution talked about the brothers' relationship being in trouble, that there was this growing rift.

And to help them make this point, they called on a close friend of Keith's by the name of Ben Paolucci.

Yeah, Ben testified by the last time he spoke with Keith.

They last were together Saturday before the murders.

Ben worked at Amazon and was referring Keith to all sorts of positions at the company.

So if Keith was applying to roles at Amazon, it certainly suggests that he had intentions of closing the family business with Paul and leaving him without income.

During the testimony, Ben also talked about how he was trying to give Keith some advice.

And Kevin, we actually have a clip of Ben talking about that to the prosecutor in court.

Let's take a listen to that.

Sometime after that, the prosecution called a forensic accounting expert, Detective Deborah Bassender, to the stand.

And she really spoke to the heart of the state's case against Paul about this financial trouble that she says he was in.

That's right.

The detective examined Paul's bank statements in the years leading up to the murders and learned that his living expenses totaled more than $700,000.

This woman Paul was allegedly supporting was described in prior pretrial testimony as a woman that he was having an affair with.

This expert, the detective, also talked about what Paul did to try to make up the difference because at the time of the murders, he was in the negative with his bank accounts.