1 00:00:05,875 --> 00:00:07,398 Up next, 2 00:00:07,442 --> 00:00:11,141 this investigation is off to a shaky start. 3 00:00:11,185 --> 00:00:14,144 This is a whole different type of autopsy 4 00:00:14,188 --> 00:00:15,972 because of the condition of his body. 5 00:00:16,016 --> 00:00:19,454 A lot of valuable time and clues have been lost. 6 00:00:19,497 --> 00:00:22,500 As time goes on, you can lose DNA evidence, 7 00:00:22,544 --> 00:00:23,980 you can lose witnesses. 8 00:00:24,024 --> 00:00:26,765 Detectives fear a killer won't be caught 9 00:00:26,809 --> 00:00:28,898 until his own words seal his fate. 10 00:00:32,380 --> 00:00:35,861 In 26 years, I've never had the killer's voice 11 00:00:35,905 --> 00:00:39,082 basically admitting what he did right there on audio. 12 00:01:00,321 --> 00:01:04,151 Founded in 1642, Warwick, Rhode Island, 13 00:01:04,194 --> 00:01:06,979 is one of the oldest cities in America-- 14 00:01:07,023 --> 00:01:11,288 a place long defined by its proximity to the Atlantic Ocean. 15 00:01:11,332 --> 00:01:13,682 We have so much coastline 16 00:01:13,725 --> 00:01:17,207 that water-life is inherent to everybody who lives here. 17 00:01:17,251 --> 00:01:19,209 I know so many people that have a boat. 18 00:01:19,253 --> 00:01:20,732 So obviously in the summer, 19 00:01:20,776 --> 00:01:23,692 that's when people are out on their boats 20 00:01:23,735 --> 00:01:26,173 and they're parked at marinas, dinghies, 21 00:01:26,216 --> 00:01:30,090 all sorts of, you know, apparatus related to the boats. 22 00:01:30,133 --> 00:01:32,875 Countless boats and lives have been lost 23 00:01:32,918 --> 00:01:34,920 to the sea over the decades, 24 00:01:34,964 --> 00:01:37,923 many falling victim to volatile weather. 25 00:01:37,967 --> 00:01:39,360 From the West Bay mobile newsroom, 26 00:01:39,403 --> 00:01:41,188 iWitness News moves to West Warwick, 27 00:01:41,231 --> 00:01:43,929 where we're getting a great look at the storm 28 00:01:43,973 --> 00:01:45,844 that we've never seen before. 29 00:01:45,888 --> 00:01:48,673 On August 4, 2015, 30 00:01:48,717 --> 00:01:52,112 a weather phenomenon known as a macroburst 31 00:01:52,155 --> 00:01:53,591 devastated the area. 32 00:01:53,635 --> 00:01:56,377 This was an unusual event. 33 00:01:56,420 --> 00:01:59,380 My guess is there were in the range 34 00:01:59,423 --> 00:02:02,252 of 90- to 120-mile-an-hour winds. 35 00:02:02,296 --> 00:02:05,777 The only way that I can think of describing it-- 36 00:02:05,821 --> 00:02:07,431 sort of a mini tornado. 37 00:02:07,475 --> 00:02:09,607 A storm with this kind of power 38 00:02:09,651 --> 00:02:11,914 wreaked havoc on many boats along the coast. 39 00:02:11,957 --> 00:02:13,394 It was chaotic. 40 00:02:13,437 --> 00:02:15,222 The microburst had everything out of sorts. 41 00:02:15,265 --> 00:02:18,268 It wasn't uncommon for boats to be pulled off their mooring 42 00:02:18,312 --> 00:02:19,878 or taken off their anchor. 43 00:02:19,922 --> 00:02:22,751 So when in the aftermath of the storm, 44 00:02:22,794 --> 00:02:24,274 the local harbormaster 45 00:02:24,318 --> 00:02:28,060 saw a 26-foot sailboat called the Star Capella 46 00:02:28,104 --> 00:02:31,151 floating off the shore, he didn't think much of it. 47 00:02:31,194 --> 00:02:33,240 The boat was dragging anchor. 48 00:02:33,283 --> 00:02:36,591 Of course, he called out before he boarded the boat. 49 00:02:36,634 --> 00:02:38,419 Nobody answered. 50 00:02:38,462 --> 00:02:43,815 So, he took the boat, put it onto one of the city moorings. 51 00:02:43,859 --> 00:02:47,776 Before he did that, he checked the boat, looked in, 52 00:02:47,819 --> 00:02:54,957 saw a lot of debris, cushions, no signs of anybody in the boat. 53 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,177 The harbormaster towed the boat 54 00:02:57,220 --> 00:02:58,787 to a mooring for safe keeping. 55 00:02:58,830 --> 00:03:00,658 No one claimed it. 56 00:03:00,702 --> 00:03:02,834 When he came back 11 days later, 57 00:03:02,878 --> 00:03:05,446 he noticed something unusual. 58 00:03:05,489 --> 00:03:08,623 There was a very foul odor coming from the boat. 59 00:03:08,666 --> 00:03:11,103 So he boarded it to see if he can find out 60 00:03:11,147 --> 00:03:13,323 where that smell was coming from. 61 00:03:13,367 --> 00:03:15,325 The smell was coming 62 00:03:15,369 --> 00:03:17,632 from a badly decomposed human body 63 00:03:17,675 --> 00:03:21,418 covered up with a jumble of material from inside the boat. 64 00:03:21,462 --> 00:03:24,204 The body wasn't found during the initial search 65 00:03:24,247 --> 00:03:27,032 because the harbormaster hadn't expected to find 66 00:03:27,076 --> 00:03:28,817 anyone on board. 67 00:03:28,860 --> 00:03:32,429 And also because the body was covered with debris. 68 00:03:32,473 --> 00:03:39,175 We could not tell if the body was a male or female, age, race. 69 00:03:39,219 --> 00:03:40,959 The prior two weeks to that point 70 00:03:41,003 --> 00:03:45,486 had been in the mid 80s to lower 90s, 71 00:03:45,529 --> 00:03:48,880 so the weather and the conditions did not help 72 00:03:48,924 --> 00:03:52,319 in our investigation. 73 00:03:52,362 --> 00:03:54,234 The body was so decomposed, 74 00:03:54,277 --> 00:03:58,368 detectives couldn't even tell how or when the victim died. 75 00:03:58,412 --> 00:04:02,546 Was the death something that was completely accidental 76 00:04:02,590 --> 00:04:05,723 or was this the result of some other act, 77 00:04:05,767 --> 00:04:07,508 possibly even a homicide? 78 00:04:07,551 --> 00:04:10,162 The medical examiner was presented with a body 79 00:04:10,206 --> 00:04:13,340 nearly devoid of identifying features. 80 00:04:13,383 --> 00:04:15,211 Our number-one challenge in this case 81 00:04:15,255 --> 00:04:16,691 is "I don't know who this is." 82 00:04:16,734 --> 00:04:18,083 After we undressed the body, 83 00:04:18,127 --> 00:04:19,998 we could tell it had male features, 84 00:04:20,042 --> 00:04:21,870 and that's basically all we can say. 85 00:04:21,913 --> 00:04:23,393 We don't know the age. 86 00:04:23,437 --> 00:04:25,003 We don't know the race. 87 00:04:25,047 --> 00:04:28,355 And obviously fingerprints are no longer there. 88 00:04:28,398 --> 00:04:30,879 They had decomposed away. They'd melted away. 89 00:04:30,922 --> 00:04:34,665 A full autopsy showed the victim had broken ribs. 90 00:04:34,709 --> 00:04:36,580 Despite the decomposition, 91 00:04:36,624 --> 00:04:39,757 bruising was found deep in the victim's skull. 92 00:04:39,801 --> 00:04:43,892 But these findings didn't necessarily indicate foul play. 93 00:04:43,935 --> 00:04:48,026 After all, the macroburst storm was unusually powerful. 94 00:04:48,070 --> 00:04:51,421 Could it have been that the boat was knocked around 95 00:04:51,465 --> 00:04:55,120 so much that the person could have slipped and fallen, 96 00:04:55,164 --> 00:04:57,775 hit their head, and then things landed on them? 97 00:04:57,819 --> 00:05:00,561 Was he murdered and then covered up? 98 00:05:00,604 --> 00:05:04,608 Or was it just an accident in really bad weather? 99 00:05:04,652 --> 00:05:07,916 A key finding put the accident theory to rest. 100 00:05:07,959 --> 00:05:09,787 The victim's hyoid bone-- 101 00:05:09,831 --> 00:05:13,313 a floating bone located in the neck-- was broken. 102 00:05:13,356 --> 00:05:15,619 That would not have happened accidentally. 103 00:05:15,663 --> 00:05:17,404 It was a true fracture. 104 00:05:17,447 --> 00:05:19,275 This one little bone will tell me 105 00:05:19,319 --> 00:05:21,799 that there was significant pressure applied to the neck, 106 00:05:21,843 --> 00:05:23,714 and he was basically strangled. 107 00:05:23,758 --> 00:05:25,412 Doctors and detectives 108 00:05:25,455 --> 00:05:27,762 now knew their victim had been murdered. 109 00:05:27,805 --> 00:05:30,242 The problem was days had passed 110 00:05:30,286 --> 00:05:33,376 and they still had no idea who he was. 111 00:05:44,300 --> 00:05:45,954 About the only thing detectives knew 112 00:05:45,997 --> 00:05:47,303 about their murder victim 113 00:05:47,347 --> 00:05:50,001 was that he was a male and not young. 114 00:05:50,045 --> 00:05:52,613 They combed area missing person's records 115 00:05:52,656 --> 00:05:56,660 and found no one who fit this admittedly broad description. 116 00:05:56,704 --> 00:05:59,141 Even worse, a lot of time had passed 117 00:05:59,184 --> 00:06:00,621 since the murder, 118 00:06:00,664 --> 00:06:03,363 a significant setback for any investigation. 119 00:06:03,406 --> 00:06:06,844 They knew they had already been at least 10 days removed 120 00:06:06,888 --> 00:06:10,457 from when this murder may have occurred. 121 00:06:10,500 --> 00:06:13,329 So, they knew the clock was ticking. 122 00:06:13,373 --> 00:06:15,157 So, there was a lot of catch-up to do 123 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:16,637 in order to find out some of these things 124 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:18,813 to figure out exactly what it is that happened. 125 00:06:18,856 --> 00:06:21,119 The boat belonged with 70-year-old man 126 00:06:21,163 --> 00:06:22,991 named Fernando Silva. 127 00:06:23,034 --> 00:06:25,036 Police contacted his brother, 128 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:26,864 who hadn't heard from him for days 129 00:06:26,908 --> 00:06:30,041 but was able to provide valuable information. 130 00:06:30,085 --> 00:06:32,696 We were able to actually pinpoint a date 131 00:06:32,740 --> 00:06:35,612 and a time that his boat was docked at a marina 132 00:06:35,656 --> 00:06:38,398 and we began our investigation at that location. 133 00:06:38,441 --> 00:06:40,704 Now that detectives knew where the boat was docked 134 00:06:40,748 --> 00:06:44,665 before the macroburst storm, they had a starting point. 135 00:06:44,708 --> 00:06:48,408 They questioned a man who worked security at that marina. 136 00:06:48,451 --> 00:06:50,714 He was able to confirm 137 00:06:50,758 --> 00:06:52,368 that the boat in question 138 00:06:52,412 --> 00:06:55,806 was entered several times by two young males 139 00:06:55,850 --> 00:07:00,028 at very odd hours, being very early in the morning, 140 00:07:00,071 --> 00:07:02,247 and he stated that he questioned them 141 00:07:02,291 --> 00:07:05,163 on about three different occasions. 142 00:07:05,207 --> 00:07:06,556 These two men-- 143 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:08,732 the security man didn't know them-- 144 00:07:08,776 --> 00:07:11,213 said they were helping a man who identified himself 145 00:07:11,256 --> 00:07:14,085 as Freddy install a new engine. 146 00:07:14,129 --> 00:07:15,870 They came back repeatedly in the days 147 00:07:15,913 --> 00:07:19,221 before the macroburst storm to continue their work. 148 00:07:19,264 --> 00:07:20,570 They came back 149 00:07:20,614 --> 00:07:22,703 with what appeared to be a new motor, 150 00:07:22,746 --> 00:07:24,922 but they weren't too mechanically savvy 151 00:07:24,966 --> 00:07:27,272 and were unable to get the boat started. 152 00:07:27,316 --> 00:07:30,928 Detectives needed to identify these two men. 153 00:07:30,972 --> 00:07:34,236 But first they had to see if the dead man in the morgue 154 00:07:34,279 --> 00:07:36,456 was Fernando Silva. 155 00:07:36,499 --> 00:07:38,719 Many people recognized the name. 156 00:07:38,762 --> 00:07:42,113 They knew a Navy veteran nicknamed Captain Freddy 157 00:07:42,157 --> 00:07:44,202 who was a regular on the docks. 158 00:07:44,246 --> 00:07:46,553 Freddy, where are you headed? 159 00:07:46,596 --> 00:07:51,775 Captain Freddy was sort of a maritime vagabond, 160 00:07:51,819 --> 00:07:53,081 I would say. 161 00:07:53,124 --> 00:07:55,736 He had no experience with boats. 162 00:07:55,779 --> 00:07:58,913 He fell in love with boats and wasn't really sure 163 00:07:58,956 --> 00:08:02,438 what to do with them other than to be on them. 164 00:08:02,482 --> 00:08:05,310 He lived on his boat. 165 00:08:05,354 --> 00:08:07,443 Freddy chronicled his feelings in a book 166 00:08:07,487 --> 00:08:10,751 he was writing called "The Blessed Voyage." 167 00:08:10,794 --> 00:08:13,449 He was such a character that even local filmmakers 168 00:08:13,493 --> 00:08:15,320 got him to tell his story. 169 00:08:15,364 --> 00:08:20,064 I bought it because it was actually bigger than the car. 170 00:08:20,108 --> 00:08:21,501 The car was falling apart. 171 00:08:21,544 --> 00:08:24,591 But I just abandoned it in the parking lot 172 00:08:24,634 --> 00:08:26,723 and I walked all the way back to the boat 173 00:08:26,767 --> 00:08:29,900 and it was the end of that. 174 00:08:29,944 --> 00:08:31,336 Dental records were found 175 00:08:31,380 --> 00:08:34,122 and matched dental X-rays from the victim. 176 00:08:34,165 --> 00:08:38,953 A DNA comparison with a known relative confirmed his identity. 177 00:08:38,996 --> 00:08:43,131 It was Mr. Fernando Silva, sometimes called Captain Freddy 178 00:08:43,174 --> 00:08:44,828 to his friends at the marina. 179 00:08:44,872 --> 00:08:49,529 We have a definite forensic method for identifying him. 180 00:08:49,572 --> 00:08:52,532 Now that police knew who Captain Freddy was, 181 00:08:52,575 --> 00:08:55,970 they backtracked him in the days leading to the macroburst storm 182 00:08:56,013 --> 00:08:58,494 that sent his boat out to sea. 183 00:08:58,538 --> 00:09:00,540 Four nights before that storm, 184 00:09:00,583 --> 00:09:02,933 Captain Freddy won several hundred dollars 185 00:09:02,977 --> 00:09:05,980 playing Keno, a legal computer-gambling game 186 00:09:06,023 --> 00:09:08,504 found all over the region. 187 00:09:08,548 --> 00:09:10,680 He was known as being very lucky 188 00:09:10,724 --> 00:09:13,683 and in the establishments that he frequented, 189 00:09:13,727 --> 00:09:16,817 they all knew him as playing that very often. 190 00:09:16,860 --> 00:09:18,558 Shortly before the storm, 191 00:09:18,601 --> 00:09:20,821 Captain Freddy hit it big playing Keno, 192 00:09:20,864 --> 00:09:22,953 and he let a lot of people know it. 193 00:09:22,997 --> 00:09:24,564 He didn't have very much money, 194 00:09:24,607 --> 00:09:28,872 so when he struck it, in his mind, he hit the jackpot. 195 00:09:28,916 --> 00:09:32,572 This was a big, big win for him. 196 00:09:32,615 --> 00:09:36,053 And he was excited about it. 197 00:09:36,097 --> 00:09:38,578 But when Captain Freddy was found dead, 198 00:09:38,621 --> 00:09:39,883 that money was gone. 199 00:09:39,927 --> 00:09:43,234 It wasn't in his boat or with his body. 200 00:09:43,278 --> 00:09:45,715 The captain didn't have much, but it appeared 201 00:09:45,759 --> 00:09:49,371 what little he had may have led to his murder. 202 00:09:49,414 --> 00:09:53,593 A couple people saw that he won and ultimately, 203 00:09:53,636 --> 00:09:55,899 their knowledge of him winning that money 204 00:09:55,943 --> 00:09:57,205 might have led to the crime. 205 00:10:10,305 --> 00:10:11,741 After Captain Freddy Silva's boat 206 00:10:11,785 --> 00:10:14,701 was found at sea during a severe summer storm, 207 00:10:14,744 --> 00:10:17,268 it was towed back to a local marina. 208 00:10:17,312 --> 00:10:19,096 Detectives traced the boat 209 00:10:19,140 --> 00:10:21,446 back to where it was originally docked and discovered 210 00:10:21,490 --> 00:10:24,188 that two unknown men had spent a lot of time 211 00:10:24,232 --> 00:10:28,062 on the captain's boat in the days after he went missing. 212 00:10:28,105 --> 00:10:30,281 In a crucial break for investigators, 213 00:10:30,325 --> 00:10:33,937 these men were recorded by surveillance cameras. 214 00:10:33,981 --> 00:10:36,636 I was going through basically two weeks of video, 215 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:38,725 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 216 00:10:38,768 --> 00:10:41,641 which was about 20,000 video files. 217 00:10:41,684 --> 00:10:43,033 You really have to look at everything, 218 00:10:43,077 --> 00:10:44,382 because we don't know what happened, 219 00:10:44,426 --> 00:10:45,906 how it happened and that necessarily 220 00:10:45,949 --> 00:10:48,125 these two were necessarily the ones involved. 221 00:10:48,169 --> 00:10:50,258 People at the marina told detectives 222 00:10:50,301 --> 00:10:53,435 that one of these men might be Troy Gunderway, 223 00:10:53,478 --> 00:10:55,655 a local man, a petty criminal, 224 00:10:55,698 --> 00:10:58,135 almost instantly recognizable 225 00:10:58,179 --> 00:11:02,052 because of the large eye tattooed on his skull. 226 00:11:02,096 --> 00:11:05,142 Troy Gunderway was a resident of Warwick 227 00:11:05,186 --> 00:11:07,667 who had been in and out of prison. 228 00:11:07,710 --> 00:11:15,631 He had worked odds-and-end jobs when he wasn't incarcerated. 229 00:11:15,675 --> 00:11:18,329 And further investigation learned that Troy Gunderway 230 00:11:18,373 --> 00:11:21,768 had known Fernando Silva prior to the murder. 231 00:11:21,811 --> 00:11:24,814 And that he, in fact, had assisted Fernando 232 00:11:24,858 --> 00:11:28,557 in attempting to get a motor for that boat on a previous date. 233 00:11:30,298 --> 00:11:32,430 Detectives asked Troy Gunderway 234 00:11:32,474 --> 00:11:34,737 about the other man who was seen working with him 235 00:11:34,781 --> 00:11:36,304 on Captain Freddy's boat. 236 00:11:36,347 --> 00:11:38,915 Mr. Gunderway said that he was with a friend 237 00:11:38,959 --> 00:11:40,482 that he called Big Red, 238 00:11:40,525 --> 00:11:43,180 and he believes his real name was Rich. 239 00:11:43,224 --> 00:11:45,748 After a little digging, detectives came up 240 00:11:45,792 --> 00:11:48,490 with a name-- Richard Baribault. 241 00:11:48,533 --> 00:11:51,972 Richard Baribault had had several run-ins 242 00:11:52,015 --> 00:11:53,843 with the police. 243 00:11:53,887 --> 00:11:58,152 He had served approximately a quarter of his life behind bars. 244 00:11:58,195 --> 00:12:00,676 Most of it was drug-related, alcohol-related, 245 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:02,504 and domestic-abuse related. 246 00:12:02,547 --> 00:12:04,985 A further background check showed Baribault 247 00:12:05,028 --> 00:12:07,552 had a suspended driver's license. 248 00:12:07,596 --> 00:12:11,731 And he was driving a pickup truck that might or might not 249 00:12:11,774 --> 00:12:13,776 be the one in this surveillance video 250 00:12:13,820 --> 00:12:17,040 shot near the marina where the Captain docked his boat. 251 00:12:17,084 --> 00:12:21,349 On the night that we believe Captain Freddy was killed, 252 00:12:21,392 --> 00:12:24,395 a maroon pickup truck with the same sticker pattern 253 00:12:24,439 --> 00:12:26,963 as found on Mr. Baribault's pickup truck 254 00:12:27,007 --> 00:12:29,531 left the marina at pretty much the time 255 00:12:29,574 --> 00:12:32,795 that we thought the incident had occurred. 256 00:12:32,839 --> 00:12:35,711 Now that detectives knew who Baribault was, 257 00:12:35,755 --> 00:12:37,757 they simply waited until he got 258 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:40,150 behind the wheel and pulled him over. 259 00:12:40,194 --> 00:12:41,804 At which point, he was arrested 260 00:12:41,848 --> 00:12:43,893 for operating on a suspended license 261 00:12:43,937 --> 00:12:46,722 and operating a motor vehicle without registration. 262 00:12:46,766 --> 00:12:48,985 In one of Baribault's pockets, 263 00:12:49,029 --> 00:12:51,596 they found a knife with a blade over 3 inches-- 264 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:54,774 in itself, a violation of state law. 265 00:12:54,817 --> 00:12:56,514 Even worse for Baribault, 266 00:12:56,558 --> 00:12:59,213 the knife appeared to have blood on it. 267 00:12:59,256 --> 00:13:02,172 I asked Mr. Baribault if there would be any reason 268 00:13:02,216 --> 00:13:03,913 for blood to be on the knife. 269 00:13:03,957 --> 00:13:07,612 He stated the only reasons would be his own blood, 270 00:13:07,656 --> 00:13:09,049 which he might have cut himself, 271 00:13:09,092 --> 00:13:12,443 or the blood of fish when he has gone fishing. 272 00:13:12,487 --> 00:13:14,794 The knife was sent out for testing. 273 00:13:14,837 --> 00:13:17,579 Baribault admitted to police that he saw Freddy 274 00:13:17,622 --> 00:13:20,364 the night he died, but said Troy Gunderway 275 00:13:20,408 --> 00:13:22,845 had murdered the captain, not him. 276 00:13:50,307 --> 00:13:53,658 But what Baribault didn't know was that investigators 277 00:13:53,702 --> 00:13:56,313 had a surprise piece of evidence-- 278 00:13:56,357 --> 00:13:59,273 his own voice trying to get information 279 00:13:59,316 --> 00:14:02,102 on how to cover up a murder. 280 00:14:02,145 --> 00:14:06,933 So in the search warrant, when they search with Google 281 00:14:06,976 --> 00:14:08,978 through a voice search on the phone, 282 00:14:09,022 --> 00:14:13,417 it actually records your voice in your exact words. 283 00:14:29,042 --> 00:14:30,826 Troy Gunderway told police 284 00:14:30,870 --> 00:14:32,306 he and Richard Baribault 285 00:14:32,349 --> 00:14:34,961 knew Captain Freddy was flush with cash 286 00:14:35,004 --> 00:14:36,701 after his wins at Keno 287 00:14:36,745 --> 00:14:39,704 and their plan was to steal that money. 288 00:14:39,748 --> 00:14:41,706 So they decided that due to his age 289 00:14:41,750 --> 00:14:43,360 and the fact that he was on a boat, 290 00:14:43,404 --> 00:14:45,319 and there probably wouldn't be anybody else around, 291 00:14:45,362 --> 00:14:48,278 they thought he'd be an easy target to rob. 292 00:14:48,322 --> 00:14:50,019 Baribault and Gunderway 293 00:14:50,063 --> 00:14:53,370 pointed fingers at each other as Captain Freddy's killer. 294 00:14:53,414 --> 00:14:56,156 Detectives thought both men were involved, 295 00:14:56,199 --> 00:14:58,332 but they needed evidence to prove it. 296 00:14:58,375 --> 00:15:02,336 So they confiscated and examined both men's cellphones. 297 00:15:02,379 --> 00:15:04,512 Typically, when we get a phone, 298 00:15:04,555 --> 00:15:06,166 we go through an extraction process 299 00:15:06,209 --> 00:15:08,559 where we hook the phone up to a forensic computer 300 00:15:08,603 --> 00:15:09,909 and we extract the information 301 00:15:09,952 --> 00:15:11,562 from the hard drive of that phone. 302 00:15:11,606 --> 00:15:13,738 That's going to include something 303 00:15:13,782 --> 00:15:17,394 as simple as user settings to things like location history, 304 00:15:17,438 --> 00:15:20,484 telephone calls, chats, apps that you've used. 305 00:15:20,528 --> 00:15:23,400 There's a myriad of information that you can get from that. 306 00:15:23,444 --> 00:15:25,359 In fact, a lot of information 307 00:15:25,402 --> 00:15:28,014 vital to any murder investigation-- 308 00:15:28,057 --> 00:15:31,234 where the suspect was, what time he was there, 309 00:15:31,278 --> 00:15:32,975 who he was talking to-- 310 00:15:33,019 --> 00:15:35,935 can be gleaned from a forensic examination 311 00:15:35,978 --> 00:15:37,023 of a cellphone. 312 00:15:37,066 --> 00:15:38,720 And Baribault's phone 313 00:15:38,763 --> 00:15:41,549 was a potential gold mine of evidence. 314 00:15:41,592 --> 00:15:46,946 We were able to determine the location of the cellphone 315 00:15:46,989 --> 00:15:49,383 prior to the murder, the night of the murder, 316 00:15:49,426 --> 00:15:52,081 during the murder and after the murder. 317 00:15:52,125 --> 00:15:54,040 And therefore, we can link the cellphone location 318 00:15:54,083 --> 00:15:55,737 with Mr. Baribault. 319 00:15:55,780 --> 00:15:58,044 The examination showed both suspects' phones 320 00:15:58,087 --> 00:16:00,742 were on Captain Freddy's boat early on the morning 321 00:16:00,785 --> 00:16:03,919 of August 1st just hours after the captain 322 00:16:03,963 --> 00:16:05,965 won big playing Keno. 323 00:16:06,008 --> 00:16:08,271 And those phones were also at the boat 324 00:16:08,315 --> 00:16:10,621 many times in the days that followed. 325 00:16:10,665 --> 00:16:12,580 But some questions remained. 326 00:16:12,623 --> 00:16:15,452 Who's holding the phone? Who's making the call? 327 00:16:15,496 --> 00:16:18,455 A lot of that stuff, you could come up with a defense, 328 00:16:18,499 --> 00:16:20,762 you could come up with an excuse or an alibi. 329 00:16:20,805 --> 00:16:22,546 A combination of evidence 330 00:16:22,590 --> 00:16:24,418 solved that problem. 331 00:16:24,461 --> 00:16:27,638 The locations provided by both suspects' phones matched up 332 00:16:27,682 --> 00:16:30,293 to the second with surveillance images 333 00:16:30,337 --> 00:16:33,079 of two previously unknown men 334 00:16:33,122 --> 00:16:35,951 getting on and off Captain Freddy's boat. 335 00:16:35,995 --> 00:16:37,779 Over the course of four days, 336 00:16:37,822 --> 00:16:41,783 I saw them come and go from the boat a minimum of 10 times. 337 00:16:41,826 --> 00:16:44,960 Even though Richard Baribault maintained his innocence, 338 00:16:45,004 --> 00:16:46,657 the most damning clue against him 339 00:16:46,701 --> 00:16:48,659 came straight from his own mouth 340 00:16:48,703 --> 00:16:52,228 through a voice search he did on his Google search engine. 341 00:16:52,272 --> 00:16:53,969 Between August 1st and August 4th, 342 00:16:54,013 --> 00:16:56,928 we were able to find from Google several audio recordings 343 00:16:56,972 --> 00:16:58,234 in Mr. Baribault's voice. 344 00:17:04,371 --> 00:17:06,938 That was very telling due to the fact 345 00:17:06,982 --> 00:17:09,941 that we found a gallon full of bleach 346 00:17:09,985 --> 00:17:11,769 where Mr. Silva was located. 347 00:17:11,813 --> 00:17:14,250 The evidence was overwhelming. 348 00:17:16,731 --> 00:17:22,302 There were many questions which he was asking Google 349 00:17:22,345 --> 00:17:26,480 to see if the answers would be right there for him. 350 00:17:30,223 --> 00:17:32,834 By now the results from the forensic examination 351 00:17:32,877 --> 00:17:35,880 of Baribault's knife had come in and confirmed 352 00:17:35,924 --> 00:17:38,622 what investigators already suspected. 353 00:17:38,666 --> 00:17:40,711 The blood was Captain Freddy's. 354 00:17:40,755 --> 00:17:42,539 There's really no other reason for his blood 355 00:17:42,583 --> 00:17:45,368 to be on that knife, except that he was there 356 00:17:45,412 --> 00:17:48,676 at the time when Mr. Silva was murdered. 357 00:17:48,719 --> 00:17:51,635 Prosecutors believe Gunderway and Baribault 358 00:17:51,679 --> 00:17:54,551 knew Captain Freddy had won a couple hundred dollars 359 00:17:54,595 --> 00:17:55,900 playing Keno. 360 00:17:55,944 --> 00:17:57,511 They snuck on to the captain's boat, 361 00:17:57,554 --> 00:18:00,818 expecting to overpower him and steal his money. 362 00:18:00,862 --> 00:18:03,995 On board, Baribault held Captain Freddy at knifepoint, 363 00:18:04,039 --> 00:18:06,172 drawing the blood that remained on the weapon 364 00:18:06,215 --> 00:18:08,087 even weeks after the attack. 365 00:18:08,130 --> 00:18:11,220 When Freddy fought back, he was beaten, strangled, 366 00:18:11,264 --> 00:18:12,917 and left for dead. 367 00:18:12,961 --> 00:18:15,398 For the next four days, Baribault and Gunderway 368 00:18:15,442 --> 00:18:17,357 tried to clean up the scene, 369 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:20,360 doing Google searches on Baribault's phone 370 00:18:20,403 --> 00:18:23,363 to see how they could best do the job. 371 00:18:23,406 --> 00:18:25,887 At every moment in the attempted coverup, 372 00:18:25,930 --> 00:18:28,759 their phones and surveillance video 373 00:18:28,803 --> 00:18:31,371 documented their locations. 374 00:18:31,414 --> 00:18:33,895 In an attempt to hide the evidence, they drove 375 00:18:33,938 --> 00:18:37,246 Captain Freddy's boat out to sea and abandoned it, 376 00:18:37,290 --> 00:18:42,121 hoping this floating crime scene would never be found. 377 00:18:42,164 --> 00:18:46,037 But the macroburst storm just days after the murder 378 00:18:46,081 --> 00:18:48,779 did something they hadn't counted on-- 379 00:18:48,823 --> 00:18:52,435 it caused the boat to float back towards the shoreline, 380 00:18:52,479 --> 00:18:55,612 where it was later found by the harbormaster. 381 00:18:55,656 --> 00:18:58,137 Ultimately, Captain Freddy's decomposing body 382 00:18:58,180 --> 00:19:01,923 exposed the crime and tied Baribault and Gunderway 383 00:19:01,966 --> 00:19:06,275 to his boat, to his corpse, and to his murder. 384 00:19:06,319 --> 00:19:08,973 But it was Baribault's own voice, 385 00:19:09,017 --> 00:19:12,716 looking for information on how to conceal the crime 386 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:14,457 that sealed his fate. 387 00:19:20,463 --> 00:19:23,945 A Google search has a date, a timestamp, 388 00:19:23,988 --> 00:19:27,644 and a GPS coordinate location of that exact search. 389 00:19:27,688 --> 00:19:28,993 There was no denying. 390 00:19:29,037 --> 00:19:32,432 It was his voice asking that question 391 00:19:32,475 --> 00:19:35,826 at that specific time in that specific location. 392 00:19:39,482 --> 00:19:41,136 In 2017, 393 00:19:41,180 --> 00:19:44,444 Troy Gunderway pled guilty to second-degree murder 394 00:19:44,487 --> 00:19:47,142 and got 55 years in prison. 395 00:19:47,186 --> 00:19:49,013 Richard "Big Red" Baribault, 396 00:19:49,057 --> 00:19:52,669 who elected, despite the evidence against him, 397 00:19:52,713 --> 00:19:55,803 to go to trial, got life plus 10 years 398 00:19:55,846 --> 00:20:00,938 all for a murder that came down to just a few hundred dollars. 399 00:20:00,982 --> 00:20:03,985 Captain Freddy had a large and loving family. 400 00:20:04,028 --> 00:20:08,598 They were very supportive of him and everything that he did. 401 00:20:08,642 --> 00:20:10,426 It was very emotional. 402 00:20:10,470 --> 00:20:13,995 Those wounds are very much real and very much still fresh, 403 00:20:14,038 --> 00:20:17,520 and to have to hear the evidence and what happened that night, 404 00:20:17,564 --> 00:20:20,610 and how these people just went on with their regular lives 405 00:20:20,654 --> 00:20:22,177 and didn't really give it much thought 406 00:20:22,221 --> 00:20:26,529 after they got rid of the boat, that's tough. 407 00:20:26,573 --> 00:20:30,054 It's always good to catch the bad guy, 408 00:20:30,098 --> 00:20:31,882 but in this particular case, 409 00:20:31,926 --> 00:20:34,842 that satisfaction is multiplied when you can go to the family 410 00:20:34,885 --> 00:20:38,193 and say, "Hey, listen, unfortunate circumstances, 411 00:20:38,237 --> 00:20:39,716 but we are able to find the person responsible 412 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:42,023 and they're going to pay for what they did." 413 00:20:42,066 --> 00:20:44,547 The electronic evidence that we were able 414 00:20:44,591 --> 00:20:50,684 to get definitely sealed the deal with the jury's eyes. 415 00:20:50,727 --> 00:20:55,384 A lot of juries want these CSI fingerprints. 416 00:20:55,428 --> 00:20:58,822 They want that undeniable evidence. 417 00:20:58,866 --> 00:21:01,477 And it just so happens that we were able to get that.