Dominic Clio
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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And then they asked him questions about, you know, who would want to do this? And then Grant went into a scenario where he explains that his father was abusive to his mother and that it was a very unpleasant place to live and that his brother was, you know, always his protector and always had his back and defended him against his angry dad.
passing by the house but i i inevitably sided against it not what you say it's sort of how you say it and then getting stuck with whatever version you give you know he says he left the house at like three o'clock or something and then just kind of drove around and then wanted to get out of there not come back and because his dad threw him out they got into this big argument i mean it was so convoluted and so all over the place that it was frankly unbelievable
One of the investigators asked, well, you know, who would possibly do this? He said, I think maybe Cody killed everybody and then killed himself, you know, as a way to, like, protect Grant and his family. That was sort of the version that he gave during the interview.
It just didn't make any sense. The girlfriend of Cody had always indicated that he was a perfectly well-adjusted, hardworking individual, and it would be way, way out of character for him to do that.
They presented him with crime scene photos. So I think it was about four or five photos of the house and his deceased parents and brother.
The detective said it was very clear to them that it would seem to be crocodile tears, not particularly genuine.
Jason went in towards the end. It was a very heartfelt conversation. And I'm paraphrasing, of course, but he's like, listen, man, what's going on? Who would have done this to mom and dad? Like, did you do this? He gets confronted and his demeanor is just silent.
You're confronted with that. What is a reasonable person's explanation going to be? You're just going to sit there? No. He sat there quietly and took it.
As a matter of fact, after that interview, we did not approve an arrest warrant because there were still too many questions that had yet to be answered. And without having a timeline yet developed as to when all this stuff happened, at that point, it is probable that he was involved, but it just wasn't quite there yet.
Because in Florida, the moment that you put handcuffs on someone on a felony, the state has 175 days to bring them to trial. We were not confident, at least at that first interview, that we had enough in the event of a speedy trial that we could get a conviction. You may want to act immediate, and sometimes you have to.
But if you don't have to, sometimes your case will benefit tremendously just by waiting. Fair enough.
And it was a death penalty case. So we elected to seek the death penalty.
I was approached by our lawyer who does our indictment work. Because in Florida, every first degree premeditated or felony murder case has to be indicted by grand jury. And the way that it was sort of explained to me from the very beginning was, hey, listen, we have this case. It's a very circumstantial case, but I think if we piece it together, the digital footprint will be almost undeniable.
When he got arrested and arraigned, and it was set for the first control date, after that first docket sign, he didn't waive speedy trial. And typically, a defendant and his lawyers will waive speedy so they can do due diligence, right? They can do depositions. They can file all kinds of different motions. They can develop a defense that would be beneficial to their client.
And I guess from a strategic standpoint, and certainly in this case, the defendant and his lawyers elected to not waive speedy trial and keep our feet to the fire. And frankly... It was effective. In this particular case, the gamble was they're not going to be able to get all this stuff together in time. So let's just see how quickly they could put it together.
And what they did is they started to sort of go through what he said during his interview and kind of pick it apart. He established a timeline during his interview of where he was. He said that he was at that house until 11 o'clock or midnight on the 24th. And police were quick to figure out from Margaret's work computer information
that the last human interaction that anyone had with that computer was around 4 o'clock in the afternoon on the 24th. And then they're like, okay, well, if she presumably was deceased at around 4, that meant that Grant, by his own admission during the interview, would have been hanging out in the house with his dead mom until 11 or 12 at night.
We knew the shell cases didn't match the projectiles. That we knew. And so we were just, and we didn't, but we didn't have a weapon. You know, we didn't have a murder weapon. And it wasn't until, golly, I want to say a week before the trial that we found out that this gun had come up missing.
And Grant had been at his house about a week or two prior to the homicide. And so what we think happened was Grant had taken his friend's gun about a week or two prior, used that gun to kill his family, and then took another firearm and went outside and licked off four rounds, collected the shell cases and planted the shell cases next to the bodies. to make it look like it was Cody's gun, i.e.
Cody, was the one that shot and killed his mother and father and then himself.
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