Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Scott Weinberger

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
3382 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Anatomy of Murder
67 Steps (The Amato Family)

And I think it also suggested that they were dealing with not just an angry young man with a vendetta against his parents. They may just be dealing with a cold hearted sociopath. And Anasiga, I did notice, as you probably did watching this, is that he's being very open. He's talking. And I guess the real plan here is to keep that open line of communication going.

Anatomy of Murder
67 Steps (The Amato Family)

And I think it also suggested that they were dealing with not just an angry young man with a vendetta against his parents. They may just be dealing with a cold hearted sociopath. And Anasiga, I did notice, as you probably did watching this, is that he's being very open. He's talking. And I guess the real plan here is to keep that open line of communication going.

Anatomy of Murder
67 Steps (The Amato Family)

Investigators even allowing Grant's oldest brother, Jason, to go into the interview room and confront him about their parents' murders.

Anatomy of Murder
67 Steps (The Amato Family)

Investigators even allowing Grant's oldest brother, Jason, to go into the interview room and confront him about their parents' murders.

Anatomy of Murder
67 Steps (The Amato Family)

At this point, investigators hadn't even recovered the murder weapon because remember, the gun found at the scene was not the one that fired the bullets that killed Cody, Chad, and Margaret Amato.

Anatomy of Murder
67 Steps (The Amato Family)

At this point, investigators hadn't even recovered the murder weapon because remember, the gun found at the scene was not the one that fired the bullets that killed Cody, Chad, and Margaret Amato.

Anatomy of Murder
67 Steps (The Amato Family)

But they didn't wait very long. Just three days later, on January 28, 2019, Granamato was arrested and charged with three counts of first-degree premeditated murder.

Anatomy of Murder
67 Steps (The Amato Family)

But they didn't wait very long. Just three days later, on January 28, 2019, Granamato was arrested and charged with three counts of first-degree premeditated murder.

Anatomy of Murder
67 Steps (The Amato Family)

The prosecution were betting that the suspect's near-constant internet use, digital forensics would quickly dismantle his alibi and possibly help build an accurate timeline of the murders. But without a murder weapon and any convincing physical evidence, they still had their work cut out for them.

Anatomy of Murder
67 Steps (The Amato Family)

The prosecution were betting that the suspect's near-constant internet use, digital forensics would quickly dismantle his alibi and possibly help build an accurate timeline of the murders. But without a murder weapon and any convincing physical evidence, they still had their work cut out for them.

Anatomy of Murder
67 Steps (The Amato Family)

Luckily, the digital forensics in this case, from the movements of each family member's cell phones to financial records and, of course, Internet search histories, they all proved to be as valuable as prosecutors hoped they would be.

Anatomy of Murder
67 Steps (The Amato Family)

Luckily, the digital forensics in this case, from the movements of each family member's cell phones to financial records and, of course, Internet search histories, they all proved to be as valuable as prosecutors hoped they would be.

Anatomy of Murder
67 Steps (The Amato Family)

Even after Cody, Chad, and Margaret's bodies had been discovered, one of the family's credit cards had been used to buy $600 worth of tokens for access to Sylvie, the Bulgarian webcam model.

Anatomy of Murder
67 Steps (The Amato Family)

Even after Cody, Chad, and Margaret's bodies had been discovered, one of the family's credit cards had been used to buy $600 worth of tokens for access to Sylvie, the Bulgarian webcam model.

Anatomy of Murder
67 Steps (The Amato Family)

During the trial, Dominic argued that it was just one of several clumsy attempts Grant had made to try to frame his own brother for murdering their parents. Another included a botched scheme to plant a forged suicide note.

Anatomy of Murder
67 Steps (The Amato Family)

During the trial, Dominic argued that it was just one of several clumsy attempts Grant had made to try to frame his own brother for murdering their parents. Another included a botched scheme to plant a forged suicide note.

Anatomy of Murder
67 Steps (The Amato Family)

In dissecting the crime scene more, they determined that the position of her body suggested that the shot came without any warning. The youngest Amato then waited alone for more than an hour until his father arrived home from work. And again, data from Chad Amato's cell phone helped recreate the scene.

Anatomy of Murder
67 Steps (The Amato Family)

In dissecting the crime scene more, they determined that the position of her body suggested that the shot came without any warning. The youngest Amato then waited alone for more than an hour until his father arrived home from work. And again, data from Chad Amato's cell phone helped recreate the scene.

Anatomy of Murder
67 Steps (The Amato Family)

This is a hyper reconstruction of this crime scene. Not only are they using the ballistic evidence to determine, for instance, the brother had a holster on his body and the gun. And even though he was right-handed or left-handed, the holster was put on backwards.

Anatomy of Murder
67 Steps (The Amato Family)

This is a hyper reconstruction of this crime scene. Not only are they using the ballistic evidence to determine, for instance, the brother had a holster on his body and the gun. And even though he was right-handed or left-handed, the holster was put on backwards.