Dominic Clio
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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My name is Dominic Clio. I'm the chief trial attorney for the 18th Circuit in Seminole County, Florida, and I've been here for about 19 years.
And I thought to myself, you know, I'm going to take a crack at getting some baptism by fire and be a prosecutor for a few years and leave. And then when I started, I fell in love with it. I've been here ever since.
The Amato home is out in Chilliota, and that's a real rural area of the county. It's horsebacks and horseback riding and target shooting and that kind of stuff.
He worked for CVS at a corporate center in Orlando. And the mother, Margaret, was in the medical business also. She was doing like billing and coding kind of things from home.
The older, the brother, Cody, he was a nurse anesthetist. And he was a very diligent employee for one of our local hospitals and a very congenial fella. And he never missed a day of work, which, you know, you hear folks say that, but he legitimately never missed a day of work. And if he was going to be late, he always called his co-workers and let them know.
I want to say it was around nine in the morning. One of his co-workers had called the sheriff's office because they had attempted to reach Cody a number of times and he hadn't answered his phone. His phone went straight to voicemail, which was not very common. And so they had asked the sheriff's office to do a well-being check.
They checked for signs of forced entry on the outside. They turned on their sirens to try to alert anyone that was in the home that they were out there, knocked on the doors, checked the windows, and there was no response.
One of the deputies took it upon himself to sort of walk around the back of the house. And after a while, since no one answered, he took out a credit card and basically popped a lock on a set of French doors that go into the master bedroom of the home.
So as he walked in, he observed Margaret Amato, the mother, sitting at her desk, face down with a gunshot wound to the back of her head.
The blood was such that it was apparent that he was shot also in the back of the head and that he had not immediately passed away because there was fingerprints sort of clawing along the ceramic tile floor. And subsequently, there was a second gunshot that ended his life. But incredibly, the horror did not end there. And as the deputy cleared the house, he found Cody Amato deceased,
in an area between where the garage enters the home, right by that sort of exterior door, in a puddle, of course, of his own blood, wearing his nurse scrubs that he had been wearing and with a backpack.
So there were no signs of forced entry. All the doors were locked. All the windows were sealed. There was nothing that was broken. The house had a number of expensive electronic items. Nothing had been disturbed or taken from what they could tell.
They find all kinds of things. They find shell cases next to each of the bodies. They're able to recover projectiles from, I believe, a cabinet, drywall, and things like that. What's fascinating about this scene is that the shell cases did not match the projectiles.
So in other words, the shell cases that were left behind after the projectile is discharged, those didn't match what came out of the case. And when we had our forensic tool mark folks look at that, they were able to say, there is no way on God's green earth that those projectiles came out of what is sitting next to the bodies.
And then it turned on whether they had any enemies or they owed any money to anybody. And none of that ended up being the case.
As soon as they heard that, that was a very powerful motive for them to focus on Grant as their primary suspect.
Grant and Cody were very close growing up. They lived with their parents throughout their entire life. Grant was a very intelligent individual. He had become a nurse, just like his brother.
He did some weight training. He also did airsoft activities with a bunch of his friends. He was a video game person, was into Japanese culture and Japanese anime and those types of things. By most accounts, pretty normal fellow. There was not a whole lot of red flags.
He was working at the time at a facility with a bunch of elderly folks who were, you know, in need of pain management.
He'd begin to overdose patients so that they would sleep longer and he wouldn't have to be as hands-on with them since they would be unconscious.
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