67 Steps (The Amato Family)
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How did the Amato family tragedy unfold?
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.
Dominic is a nearly 20-year veteran of the prosecutor's office and dozens of high-profile homicide cases, but it wasn't necessarily the role he thought he was born to play. Or was it?
The answer to that is no. In fact, like many, he admitted that when he first became a lawyer, he was afraid of public speaking and actually terrified to be in court. But it was a fear he knew he eventually had to conquer.
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.
And in that time as a prosecutor, one of the cases that really stood out in his career was this one. And it all started on a clear morning in January, about 30 miles north of Orlando.
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.
It's also where Chad and Margaret Amato had raised three sons. two of whom, Cody and Grant, were still living with them in their large, well-appointed home in horse country. The father, he was a pharmacist.
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.
Their sons, Cody and Grant, who had both pursued nursing degrees at the University of Central Florida, also aspired to careers in the healthcare industry.
But on the morning of January 25th, all those plans came to a sudden and violent stop.
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.
But that morning, no one had heard from him. And both his girlfriend and his co-workers were getting increasingly concerned.
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.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
How did the Amato family tragedy unfold?
2:13–5:56
2
What were the initial findings at the Amato crime scene?
5:56–10:08
3
Who is Grant Amato and why was he a suspect?
10:08–15:06
4
How did Grant Amato's internet addiction affect his life?
15:06–25:28
5
What led to the intervention and Grant's rehabilitation efforts?
25:28–30:43
6
What were the final events leading to the Amato family murders?
30:43–50:15