Michael Pellegrini
Appearances
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
Cleaning products that they show him purchasing showed up at the house and in his car. So it was obvious he was part of it, involved. There's no video, obviously, of the murder, so... You know, that's the only piece that's missing.
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
It was obvious he was there. It was obvious he tried to clean up. It was obvious he was part of it.
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
Their theory was that Tim did this because he thought Jenna was an informant.
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
My parents were, you know, avid sailors. And of course, when she was born and living with my parents, you know, we were able to get her out right from the beginning. She pretty much grew up right from the beginning, sailing the coast of New Hampshire and Maine.
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
Either Tim was actually paranoid and thinking Jenna was a drug informant, or as some people think, and this is kind of my theory because I don't believe the informant thing, that Christine is leaving. So that conversation could have resulted in the exact same scenario one way or the other. That can't happen. I'll do this for Dean so that he likes me or he keeps me on board.
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
Obviously, the prosecution has to go with the facts. And the only facts they had was that Dean is on camera down in Florida, so he didn't do it. And Tim was there up until the morning that it happened, so he must have.
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
She was very smart. She had a lot of friends through high school where she spent a lot of time with them. A good amount of it was probably on the ball fields. That was her big passion. I mean, she was into sports.
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
She had her own ways, so as soon as she graduated, she was out the door. She wanted to be on her own.
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
Early on for us, it was he's guilty. And then to add to that, in my opinion anyways, and probably many others, is that you could see the defense basically throwing shit on the wall to see if it sticks. And it didn't. And it was kind of obvious, which led us to believe that, well, they don't have anything, so they're going to try to do whatever they can to convince people otherwise.
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
One officer in particular did not hand over all of the information. that he had, which was directly related to the trial.
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
From my standpoint, you know, I saw her as... And I know this may start to sound familiar to some of our listeners who may know someone or has loved someone that has struggled with addiction.
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
We were pretty confident, but obviously you have to realize that there is always that slight chance because you don't know the jurors, you don't know what they think, but we were pretty convinced that they were all going to convict him.
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
I had some issues myself that, you know, not real proud of, to be honest with you, but didn't spend as much time as I could have or should have.
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
One of the things the advocate was telling us, you know, that this could change it. The judge could listen to your statement, you know, so make it a good one.
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
Oh, well, we were relieved, finally, that, you know, for one, it was over. He's going to jail for life.
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
He was a follower, not a leader. If anyone was going to do it, it's the boyfriend. From his criminal record, from the time he was in whatever high school or college, I mean, it goes always up the chain. He was the guy that you would think would do it. And here's this other guy that, you know, maybe just following orders.
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
She kind of got involved with some people that likely pushed her into that direction. I don't know how involved she was. I know the people she was hanging out with were involved. I know for a fact that a lot of them were not the right people to hang around with.
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
I used to call her all the time. And then as this went on, I wasn't able to get a hold of her. And then, you know, she loses her job. You know, now she doesn't have a phone, so you can't get a hold of her. So that was kind of the hard part for me, that I wasn't able to reach her because she didn't have a place to live, you know, or at least a permanent one.
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
With his daughter in crisis, Michael was at a loss on how to help her. I didn't know where she was. I didn't know any of her friends. I didn't know who to call.
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
Farmington had no relevance to us. And then we found out that it was two girls. And of course, Amy's frantic.
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
Monday came along and we started seeing Facebook posts. Some people that must have known more or whatever, friends of friends that, you know, so sorry, Jenna, and so on. So, of course, that scared us, like, oh, what's going on?
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
I said I was on my way up. Shortly after that, I finally got a call from the victim advocate's office regarding Jenna, but they did not say that it was Jenna, but it was kind of obvious during that conversation that one of the girls was her.
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
It still kills me to this day. You know, when we told them, Blake's eyes were kind of wide open, and then he started to bawl.
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
The info they could give us was that she was likely sleeping. They found the mattress that she was on with bloodstains, and she was stabbed 43 times.
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
We had no idea who these people were, why she was there. We had no idea who Christine was.
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
We believe that Christine was trying to get away from him And it may have taken place or that may have been part of what was going to take place that weekend.
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
You know, Christine might have been leaving, so Dean had them killed and Jenna just happened to be there. It always kind of came back that Jenna was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Jenna didn't know Dean, Dean didn't know Jenna.
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
He was in the video at the house prior to the time that they were giving us, you know, that the murders took place. And it shows Jenna and Christine in the video and nobody else on that Thursday evening and into Friday morning.
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
He was kind of a small-time dealer where he would purchase small amounts of whatever, meth or cocaine. I'm not positive of everything, but. from Dean and he would sell it.
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
Tim didn't really have a record as being that kind of person. No arrests or nothing. So it was kind of odd in that sense. Like, why, you know, why would he do this?
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
When we first found out, I would imagine everybody kind of does this. I did kind of do a little research to see, you know, who the hell is this guy? But I didn't really find much on him. But I also did the same thing with Dean, only to find out that that's the asshole that you guys need to be arresting. He turned out to be, you know, a huge problem.
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
And a lot of people believed he was guilty the entire time.
Anatomy of Murder
X2 (Jenna Pellegrini & Christine Sullivan)
We were both young. Amy was 19, I was 21. So we had moved in with my parents. And of course they were thrilled because that brought Jenna along with. My dad in particular was ecstatic. Neither one of my parents had girls, so I have two brothers. So it was three boys. They got their first taste of a girl and it was pretty exciting.