January 19th, 2007,
I arrived at the scene of a house fire.
RONALD: I looked up at my light,
and that's when I saw a child on his bed.
I've never seen a scene where a whole family was wiped out.
HOLLY: This is the biggest crime to shock this small town
in a very, very long time.
I was scared because I was like,
"Who came for my family?"
Numerous witnesses had spoken of drug debts.
LARRY: There was a lockbox that kept the drugs
and possibly some of his cash.
CORRINE: There was a boy.
He was actually staying with my family.
He was probably not the best person
to have around your children.
What caused them to stab little kids?
That's an animal. That's not a human.
We knew we had to find the killer
before more lives are lost.
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TERRENCE: The town of Fishkill is located in Dutchess County
in New York State.
It's a fairly good sized town, about 30-32 square miles.
Has a little bit less than 23,000 people.
It has a main street with shops and restaurants
and that kind of thing.
And then a lot of it is just
suburban tracts of-- of housing.
TERRENCE: It became, uh, more of a bedroom community
for the New York City Metropolitan area.
You're less likely, um, to be a victim of violent crime
in the town of Fishkill
than say the rest of-- of New York State.
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January 19th, 2007,
there was a passing motorist
who saw a house fire on Route 82.
They contacted the local fire department,
they responded.
As we drove up and pulled in the front yard,
I see the rear of the house was on fire.
Lots of smoke, so we put our air packs on
and we assembled at the front door.
BRANDON: We make our way up the interior stairs.
And there's already pretty heavy fire.
Smoke was down to the floor.
RONALD: You can feel the heat in your ears,
the back of your neck.
And then we got to the top of the stairs
and there was a door to the left and a door to the right.
Brandon broke off to the bedroom to the right.
I went to the bedroom to the left.
Door was partially open, so I pushed it,
and I couldn't see anything
and I bumped into a bed with my helmet.
And then I looked up at my light,
and that's when I saw a child in his bed.
And I called that to the other guys
that we had a body in here.
We pick the child up.
And when we put him outside,
I noticed I had little spots of blood on my coat.
I knew right away in my mind,
I was like, "This is not right."
BRANDON: When we got outside
and had a little better visibility,
we noticed that child had obvious trauma.
RONALD: He had pajamas on,
and you could see the blood marks,
and the medic pronounced him right there.
It was heartbreaking.
People started realizing that it was a bad situation,
so they started doing more searches.
And we went back upstairs to the same bedroom
where we pulled the first child out,
and there was another child that they found
under a windowsill.
You can see that there was trauma done to that boy as well.
RONALD: As the search continue to the left of living room,
there was a dining room,
and then there,
a couple guys found another child in there
and pulled him out.
And it was apparent there was trauma to that boy as well.
And he was the youngest of the three boys.
The four of us are taking a knee,
you know, just looked at each other in shock
of what had taken place
and what it was that we were witnessing.
RONALD: We knew that it was not a normal fire,
so the town police would call the state police
and then the investigators come in.
When I pulled up on 82, uh,
there was a-- a number of emergency vehicles there,
the road had been blocked off.
The fire had been put out
and the house was not fully engulfed.
The-- the front of the structure,
there was a lot of smoke damage.
Uh, it appeared the back of the structure
is really where the fire was hot
and most of the damage was--was done.
There was a tarp that
the fire department had laidout
and they had brought out the-- the bodies
of the-- the three boys.
Seeing the visible wounds,
it became evident pretty quickly
that there was more to it
than somebody, uh, succumbing to smoke inhalation
or burns as a result of a house fire.
Uh, it-- it gets you in the gut.
It's-- it's-- it's three young lives that are no more.
Right away, we just start doing area interviews.
And there was information from a few neighbors
who knew the victims.
They said that this was the home of the Morey family.
Based upon what we gathered
at-- at our end of the investigation,
the children were probably Tony Jr.,
Ryan, and Adam Morey.
The mother and father, Tony and Tina, were missing.
BRANDON: So our next moves were to
reenter the house and continue to search for the parents.
RONALD: Everybody searched the dining room,
the living room, went back upstairs,
they were searching outside the house.
BRANDON: And shortly thereafter,
in the rear of the house
where the majority of the fire had started,
they had found a fourth victim.
TERRENCE: Thought to be the mother.
And she had suffered severe, um, burns.
RONALD: I've been in the fire service 34 years.
I've seen some bad scenes but nothing like that.
Never, never seen a scene
where a whole family was wiped out.
BRANDON: None of us had ever seen anything like that before.
Never have before or since.
TERRENCE: After the firefighters
completely put out the house fire,
made sure that the structure was secure,
we did the walkthrough of the house,
with the head of our forensic ID unit at the time.
There was no indication of a forced entry.
And there was fire damage and smoke damage
throughout the house.
But the hottest part of the blaze
would have been the back part where Tina was found.
But the front part was still intact.
So there was a workable area
that the forensic unit could go through
to process that crime scene.
Upstairs on the second floor,
there was a lot of blood in that upstairs room
where the boys were.
BRANDON: And there was an axe handle
found in that same bedroom.
And a bloody palm print was found.
After the walkthrough,
there was concern that the father was missing.
We were talking with the police officers
and we told them that when we pulled up,
you could see tire tracks
and a melted spot in the snow
where like a car was running for a long time.
TERRENCE: About 20 minutes after the original call came in
about the house fire on Route 82,
there was a second call
into fire dispatch regarding
a, uh, burning car in Lomala Lane.
And Lomala Lane is-- is not too far from the Morey residence.
[SIREN WAILING]
RONALD: And they sent the East Fishkill Fire Department.
And car fire came in within not even half mile away
from the residence.
TERRENCE: The car was empty
and the information from Motor Vehicles
links the burning vehicle to, uh, Mr. Morey.
So that car ended up becoming a secondary crime scene.
So we started processing that car
to possibly get some sort of retrievable evidence.
At that point in time,
we didn't know Tony's whereabouts.
Could it be he, too, was a victim?
Also, in cases like that,
where you had a whole family wiped out,
you're gonna look to those closest.
So could Tony have committed this homicide?
Tina and Tony's relationship was rocky, on and off.
TERRENCE: There was tension within the marriage
relating to money issues
and Tony's use of alcohol and-- and drugs.
I heard Morey's family friend, Frankie Cannon
would help Tony sometimes sell drugs.
TERRENCE: Since there was no indication of forced entry,
[SIREN WAILING]
Uh, January 19th, 2007,
I arrived at the scene of a house fire
of the Morey family.
After they pulled the three children out,
the fourth body was found
and it was the wife, Tina.
But there was concern that the father was missing.
So, where was the father?
His body was not found in the house.
And then his burning car
was found not too far from the Morey residence.
It raises suspicions about Tony Morey.
Did Tony murder his family?
Once the ME arrived
and did the postmortem of Tina,
they found the charred remains of Tony and Tina together.
They thought they had one body and it was two.
HOLLY: They were burned so badly in the blaze,
the body of Tony Morey had melded with his wife's.
So that changed the nature of the investigation
because now you had--
you had a whole family wiped out.
And now you had some unknown suspect or suspects
who are out there that committed
this quintuple homicide.
And then you have this secondary crime scene
in another fire.
It's not a common occurrence
that's gonna be happening in the town of Fishkill.
The next day, the medical examiner's office
reported that Tony Morey was shot,
uh, once in the neck
and Tina Morey was shot in the chest and in the head.
The autopsy showed on Tony Jr.,
there was numerous stab wounds.
The middle boy Adam,
he had suffered stab wounds as well.
And then there was the younger boy, Ryan,
he suffered, um, blunt force trauma to the head.
It was about 9:30, I get a phone call
from the junior high school.
She goes, "Your grandson's not here.
"Kids are talking
that their house burned down last night."
She goes, "Well, I tried calling your daughter.
I tried calling your son-in-law,
and there's no answer on their house or cell phone."
CORINNE: I was in high school
and dad picked me up from school that day.
And that's when he's on the phone with my grandmother.
She says, uh, there was a--
Something happened at the house. It was something bad.
And then that's when we found out
that there was a fire at the house,
and that the boys didn't show up to school.
We didn't know what was going on.
Nobody could get in touch with Tina.
ARLENE: We went down to the barracks,
met the state police.
My husband sat down, I didn't, and I wanted to go.
And they asked, "Where are you going?"
I said, "I wanna go to the hospital."
If that's where my family is, that's where I'm going.
And they go, "There's nothing you can do for them."
I said, "Even if I'm just holding their hand,
"I wanna be there."
So finally, they finally said that they were deceased.
I lost it.
[EXHALES]
BARBARA: Arlene called me right after she found out
the boys were killed.
She just kept screaming, "They're gone.
"The boys are gone. They're dead."
Just listening to her screaming, it-- it was like a nightmare.
It's like, I could still hear it.
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ARLENE: They were my life.
I'm so lost without them.
JAMES: Tony Sr. used to love playing with the boys.
I know he used to go out with the motorized vehicles.
Loved to spend the time with the boys,
which is really cool.
The kids I know truly loved being around them.
CORRINE: Tina was a great mom. She was there for everything.
She was very protective of them.
ARLENE: She loved her sons with all her heart.
And she always put them first
and she did everything in her power to protect them.
She wanted to go to college
and become a lawyer
to better educate and do good for the boys.
CORRINE: Tony Jr., he was 13.
Tony loved to play football. He loved to read.
Adam was 10,
he was a little bit more quiet from the bunch.
He was very gentle.
ARLENE: Ryan was six. He was a kindergartner.
CORRINE: Ryan was definitely a little cutie.
[LAUGHS] He was always running around,
always jumping and following his older brothers.
They loved doing outdoor things together.
ARLENE: I miss their laughter. I miss their smiles.
I just miss them all.
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TERRENCE: At that point in time,
we had unknown suspect or suspects
who were out there that committed this
pretty savage quintuple homicide.
Since there was no indication of forced entry,
it was possible that the killer knew the Moreys.
RONALD: People were nervous
because nothing's ever happened in this area,
the Fishkill area,
like so people were talking, wondering who would do it.
I can't wake up in the morning without thinking about it
or go to bed at night thinking about it.
They don't deserve this.
MAN: They don't deserve this at all.
They don't at all.
This is terrible, the way it is.
A lot of people were really scared.
The suspects were still out there.
I was scared because I was like, "Who came for my family?"
So definitely rattled, definitely scary.
RONALD: We knew we had to find who was the killer
before any other lives are lost.
MAN: Police say someone murdered the Morey family
while they slept.
Tony Morey and his wife Tina were both shot.
Their boys, Tony Jr. 13 and Adam 10
were stabbed to death.
And Ryan just six died from a blow to the head.
Everyone was definitely feeling unsettled.
There's still a suspect out there. Definitely scary.
TERRENCE: From the jump of the case once it starts off,
as far as law enforcement goes,
even agencies that weren't involved
were assisting with leads,
any information they had.
It was all hands on deck.
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IRA: So we found out a little later in the day
that State Trooper Dawn Melfi was patrolling
close to the Morey family house at the time of the crime.
She was operating a troop car
with a, um, device on it called the Mobile Plate Hunter.
It is basically running
every plate in its field of vision.
It's taking pictures constantly.
We pulled the information off the license plate reader
and GPS data was collected.
So we knew when that troop car was in close proximity
to the Morey house.
We can then look at that and see
what cars were around at right about 3:00 AM
when the fire happened.
There was a huge amount of data to go through.
Thousands of pictures.
It is a time-consuming process.
TERRENCE: At this point in the investigation,
there was a lot of things going on
and you have different teams of investigators
out doing interviews.
So leads are gonna come in
and they're gonna come in fast and furious.
This is the biggest crime to shock this small town
in a very, very long time.
You can imagine all the rumors that are flying around.
RONALD: You know, you hear different stories
and you're trying to separate what's fact from what's rumor,
but you have to keep doing what you're supposed to do
in an investigation.
So, we were doing some local interviews on Route 82.
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TERRENCE: Route 82 is a main thoroughfare
through the town of Fishkill.
We were trying to do some interviews of cars
that were let by on the road. It was early morning.
People were commuting to work in the vicinity of the crime scene.
Maybe somebody saw something.
We eventually interviewed an individual who knew the family.
In his words, Tony wasn't a reputable person.
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He did indicate that Tony had some, uh, drug issues.
He was also dealing drugs.
Once we discovered this other side of Tony,
this could be a drug related homicide.
You have to concern yourself with that possibility,
but that's speculation at that point in time.
ARLENE: They really struggled.
Tony had his problems.
He lost his job.
And of course he couldn't pay the rent.
JAMES: He tried to make ends meet.
It was just, you know, small stuff
between friends with drugs.
Put a few extra dollars in the pocket, pay the bills.
TERRENCE: It's the first time
that we're hearing anything negative about Tony.
And as the day progressed,
we were getting more of that-- that information.
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TERRENCE: There was informatio from a few witnesses
that there was tension within the marriage
relating to-- to money issues
and Tony's use of alcohol and-- and drugs.
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TERRENCE: We learned that Tina was planning on moving,
uh, from the house relocating to another state.
ARLENE: Tina and Tony's relationship
with the kids was pretty good.
Their relationship was rocky, on and off.
ARLENE: She lived for her children
like any normal mother.
She worried about her children.
TERRENCE: Some witnesses said that, uh, Tony
took a bit of a downward spiral,
went into a bit of a depression.
Started using, uh, drugs and alcohol, uh, a bit more
due to possible tension
with-- within the-- within the marriage.
Numerous witnesses had spoken of Tony's drug business.
I think the money was coming in and going out
as fast as it came in.
It wasn't going towards rent.
When you bring drugs into the equation,
it has to be considered, you know,
are there drug debts?
You know, a killing like that, obviously you're--
you're gonna look to those closest to the family.
CORRINE: So at the time, there was a boy in high school,
Frankie Cannon.
My cousin Tina treated him just like a son as well.
He was actually staying with my family
for a couple months prior up to the murders.
LARRY: Frankie was kind of a messed up kid.
I heard Frankie Cannon
would help Tony sometimes sell drugs.
He was just sort of, um, a helper.
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TERRENCE: So Frankie Cannon
would've been looked at as a potential suspect.
We need to talk to him.
The narcotics teams we brought in
found Tony's supplier.
He supplied Tony Morey with narcotics,
with-- with cocaine.
We interviewed him.
There was information that we felt
that he was withholding.
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LARRY: A kid who was playing hockey
on the part of the lake that was frozen
found a knife nearby.
They did DNA and most of the blood that was found
OFFICER: The Morey family was attacked and viciously murdered
within the confines of their home.
A homicide is most certainly not your average crime
and this was certainly not an average homicide.
MAN: Police say Mr. Morey was using and dealing cocaine.
He definitely associated with, um, a criminal element
and that's one of the things that we're certainly
looking into.
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TERRENCE: One factor that has to be considered,
are there drug debts?
You know, a killing like that, you--
you have to concern yourself with-- with that possibility.
LARRY: Frankie Cannon lived
in Tony's basement for a while.
He helped Tony sell drugs for five months.
So, investigators decided that they wanted to talk to Frankie.
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HOLLY: When you're dealing with a criminal investigation,
the path of least resistance to finding someone
is look them up in the county system.
Well, boom.
Frankie Cannon is already in lockup.
CORRINE: About three days before the incident,
he was actually arrested for breaking into high school.
LARRY: Frankie testified that he had burglarized
the high school that all these people went to,
John Jay, for the thrill of it.
He just thought it would be fun to--
to burglarize a high school,
so everybody knew exactly
where he was when the crime occurred.
He had the ultimate alibi.
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LARRY: The police learned it from Frankie Cannon
that there was a lockbox where Tony had kept the drugs
and possibly some of his cash.
He kept it under the bed.
You know, he didn't do business
in there when the children were awake.
It was only when they weren't there.
He was hiding the fact
that he was dealing obviously from his kids.
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TERRENCE: Numerous witnesses had spoken
of a circle of friends that Tony had
that he brought to the house.
He was also dealing drugs
to a lot of people in that orbit of friends.
And Tony and Tina would have parties.
They would have friends over.
Some of them probably not the best
to have around your children.
We subsequently learned that Mr. Morey was friends
with an individual by the name of Charlie Gilleo.
LARRY: Charlie had gone to high school with Tony Sr.
and they had been friends and they rode ATVs together.
They hung out barbecues together.
TERRENCE: Charlie Gilleo did not live too far
from the crime scene.
And we were just trying to get people to talk
who knew the family to kind of
lead us down the path of, you know, what--
what may have occurred.
Investigator Lopez and I go to, uh,
Charlie Gilleo's residence to interview him.
When we arrived at the residence,
he appeared disheveled that morning.
Um, I thought his eyes were-- were a bit glassy.
Didn't look like somebody who just got up from a--
from a fresh night's sleep.
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TERRENCE: There was a cut on the, uh, right side
of his forehead.
It did look like to be a fresh cut.
My next line to him was, "What happened to you?"
And Charlie had no idea what I was talking about.
He thought about it and he said it might've been
while he was plodding in the woods.
Where the cut was located on Charlie's head,
it was relatively high on-- on his forehead.
I asked if he was wearing a helmet
and he said, "Yes."
So the helmet was secured as a piece of evidence.
It was a motorcycle type helmet.
Uh, it'd be the type that would cover your forehead
above your eye line up to top of your head.
So it raises suspicions.
If Charlie was wearing that helmet,
I don't see how he could've gotten the cut
along the top part of his forehead.
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TERRENCE: It was during that interview
that Charlie Gilleo had indicated
that he had been at home drinking with his friend
on the night of the murders of the Morey family.
And he identified his friend as Mark Serrano.
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LARRY: Mark Serrano from, uh, all indications
was just, I don't know, a regular guy
is the right word but certainly nothing out of the ordinary.
He worked on a garbage truck.
All indications were he showed up for work regularly.
He wasn't, um, you know, a bad employee,
just a guy who worked on a garbage truck.
Mark Serrano was brought in to be interviewed,
based upon the fact that Charlie Gilleo
had indicated that he was with Mark Serrano
on the prior night.
Mark Serrano acknowledged that him and Charlie Gilleo
had been home drinking the-- the prior night,
Mr. Serrano and Mr. Gilleo had been together.
We concluded the interview that day.
And he provided us with his contact information,
should we need to get ahold of him.
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TERRENCE: Since there was some indications
of potential drug activity by Tony Morey...
the narcotics teams we brought in
as another set of eyes and ears.
You know, they're out in the street every day.
They have different informants.
They found Tony's supplier and he supplied Tony Morey
with narcotics, with-- with cocaine.
And we interviewed him.
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TERRENCE: And he provided information
that he did supply Tony with product.
But there was still information that we--
we felt that he was with-- withholding.
Eventually, he told us that he had sold drugs
to Mark Serrano on the evening of the 18th,
the night of the murders of the Morey family.
About $8,200 worth of cocaine
being sold to Mark Serrano and Charlie Gilleo,
and the sale took place in the parking lot of Wendy's
on Route 9 in the town of Fishkill.
He told investigators that Serrano and Gilleo
weren't at home all night like they said they were.
They left the house.
They went out and bought drugs.
Serrano and Gilleo had told the police
that they were at home all night.
According to this supplier,
he had sold drugs
the night of the murders to Serrano and Gilleo.
They're not telling the truth to police.
What else are they lying about?
TERRENCE: There was no indication of forced entry
and the Moreys knew
both Mark Serrano and Charlie Gilleo.
They've been to the home before.
They've had barbecues there.
So the decision was made to see
if Mr. Serrano and Mr. Gilleo had been in the vicinity
of the crime scene,
the night of the murders of the Morey family.
IRA: So at that point, the investigators
contacted us at the Hudson Valley
Transportation Management Center.
They advised us that the vehicles
we would be most concentrating on
were registered to Mr. Gilleo and Mark Serrano.
With the license plate meter, we were able to put
Mark Serrano's car
at the time of the murder at the Morey house.
It was definitely an aha moment.
That's significant information
that puts, uh, at least the car
and whoever was driving that car in the vicinity of the--
the crime scene.
The night of the murders,
Mr. Gilleo, Mr. Serrano were together.
They were partying.
Maybe they wanted more drugs
and Tony's a drug dealer.
Maybe there was an argument.
During the course of our interviews,
there was information from a few witnesses
that Tony had indicated that he and Charlie Gilleo
had a bit of a falling out,
and that he had to get away from Charlie.
Their argument had been over drugs.
ARLENE: Charlie and Tony had a big fight that weekend
before my family's murder,
and it was a big blowout.
Tony told Charlie, "Do not call here anymore.
Stay away from us.
Stay away from my wife.
Stay away from my kids.
Stay away from me."
TERRENCE: One particular perso that was interviewed
said that, uh, Tony had told him
that he was afraid for his-- his family,
and that there had been a threat made by-- by Charlie
regarding, um, him burning down Tony's house.
One of the witnesses even said that--
that Charlie had pulled a knife out.
At that point in time, we really only had
a circumstantial case
against Charlie Gilleo and Mark Serrano.
We really needed forensic evidence.
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LARRY: There was a lake called Dutchess Lake
and a kid who was playing hockey on the part of the lake
that was frozen, found a knife.
It wasn't under the water, it was in the weeds nearby.
TERRENCE: The proximity of the-- the little lake
where Mark Serrano was living at the time is--
is very close.
It's right within the development
and Charlie carried, um,
what was described by one as a Rambo-type knife.
So that knife was secured.
And then we called in our dive unit.
A dive was conducted for any other evidence that--
that might be found in the lake along with the knife.
LARRY: A state police diver found a pair of underwear
that had hearts on it and Hershey's Kisses.
They were just kind of novelty pair of underwear,
and there was blood found on-- on the underwear.
CORINNE: They found the lockbox in the lake.
TERRENCE: And they recovered a firearm
as part of their dive.
Just forensic evidence, it was sent to processing.
LARRY: Investigators learned that the underwear
was something that Serrano's girlfriend had given him.
They did DNA on the underwear,
and most of the blood that was found
was from the children.
TERRENCE: Ballistics connected the guns recovered in the lake
to the murders of Tony and Tina Morey.
And additionally, through, uh, interviews that were conducted
in the case, that weapon was linked to Mark Serrano.
LARRY: The layperson who doesn't know anything
about forensics probably believes
that setting a fire to a house will destroy evidence,
and to some extent, it does.
TERRENCE: There was a lot of processing on the house
and over 200 items of evidence were admitted.
That bloody palm print was found,
was analyzed, and it came back as a positive
for being that of Mr. Serrano.
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TERRENCE: A search was conducted
by our Troop K Forensic ID Unit
of Serrano's house.
LARRY: He drove a Nissan X-Terra,
and his seat covers had been pulled off,
and police found blood from the children
from the seat covers that he had hidden
under the sink in his kitchen.
TERRENCE: The decision was mad at the point in time
to arrest Serrano.
LARRY: After his arrest, I don't think Serrano
ever told the same story twice.
Investigators interviewed him for nine hours.
He acknowledged that he was with Gilleo that night,
that they were looking for drugs.
Basically said, "Yeah, I was-- I was there,
but Charlie was the one that went in
and did all the stuff.
And then he, you know, he came out
and the place was on fire.
I didn't know what was going on."
Essentially, he puts Charlie as the killer.
When the police came to arrest Charlie Gilleo,
they thoroughly searched his house.
TERRENCE: Search was conducted
Uh, nothing of forensic value
was found as a result of that search.
Charlie got into the interview room.
He didn't make any admissions during that interview.
I left the interview room.
There's a two-way mirror we can see in.
And Charlie was kind of
mumbling to himself, shaking his head.
There's a point in time he-- he looked up at the ceiling,
and he says, "Why Tony? Why Tony?
Why are you doing this to me?"
Later in the investigation,
Tony's drug supplier was arrested for drug sale.
And he called me while he was in custody.
And we got permission to interview him.
And he provided that missing bit of information
on Charlie Gilleo.
He received a call from Charlie Gilleo
that morning of the murders.
The sum and substance of the message was that
the Morey family was-- was gone.
At that point in time, there wasn't any information
that was released to the public
regarding the-- the crime.
So this was very odd information for Mr. Gilleo
TERRENCE: Charlie Gilleo and Mark Serrano
had been arrested for the murders
of the Morey family.
There was a lot of direct evidence
against, uh, Mr. Serrano where the gun is found,
the knife, the mobile data plate reader.
There was a lot of evidence
pointing towards Charlie Gilleo as well,
but it was what you would call a--
a circumstantial case.
And we had the call to the supplier,
Charlie indicated that they killed the Morey family.
Larry: There was never any forensic evidence
linking Gilleo to the crime.
There was no blood evidence,
there was nothing found in his home.
So in this case, the prosecutor needed Serrano
to testify against Charlie.
That's the crux of the state's case
against Charlie.
TERRENCE: Mr. Serrano went to trial in late 2007.
Mr. Gilleo subsequently went to trial in 2008.
Mr. Serrano did testify against him at trial.
ARLENE: Mark was on the witness stand
and he told what happened.
11:35 that night,
Mark and Charlie come in.
Charlie said to Tony, "Let's go out."
Tina says, "No. He's high enough.
We're going to bed."
Tony turned around and went like this...
to Charlie,
and that's when Charlie went...
[ Whistles ]
Right to his neck.
Shot him.
Down he goes dead.
I think if you're dealing with two individuals
who are under the influence,
there's no understanding why a person
would commit such violent act.
ARLENE: Tina gets up from the couch.
Looks over, "What the eff did you do to my husband?"
He'd turn around,
shot her right in the mouth.
She turns to run.
Shoots her in the side.
She goes down.
Walks over to her and shoots her in the head.
And her baby son, Ryan, moves there,
watched the whole thing.
TERRENCE: Ryan ran upstairs and they had come up
and stabbed Adam first.
ARLENE: Adam is the only one still mid sound asleep.
Cut his throat.
The firemen found him angel position
with his eyes open.
TERRENCE: Tony Jr. woke up, engaged in a struggle.
ARLENE: They found Tony Jr. backed up in a corner.
The mattress over him...
he was stabbed 82 times.
Ryan was screaming,
"Stop stabbing my brother. Stop stabbing him.
Stop stabbing my brother."
TERRENCE: Ryan ran downstairs
and Charlie Gilleo followed him...
and-- and was bludgeoned there.
ARLENE: And for some reason, there was pickaxe handle,
and he picks it up.
I can't-- I can't-- I can't say.
I can't go any further. [ Sobs ]
LARRY: Serrano said that he went outside
and then Charlie came flying out of the house.
He got into Tony's car and he drove it,
and then he threw something in the car,
and it went boom, and, uh, that car was on fire,
it was, um, Charlie trying desperately
to get rid of this evidence
of what he had done inside.
TERRENCE: That night, it was possible that they were--
they were all partying, Tony, Charlie, Mark.
Maybe they wanted more drugs.
Maybe there were no drugs. Maybe there was an argument.
I can't even begin to get inside their head
as to what went wrong.
But something went drastically wrong that night
and forever changed the story of the Morey family.
Mark Serrano upon conviction,
he was sentenced and his sentence,
I believe was a minimum of, uh, 50 years
to, uh, life in imprisonment.
LARRY: Ultimately, Judge Dolan sentenced Charlie
to five consecutive life terms for the five deaths.
He just wiped out five people.
He's claimed he's innocent.
He walked out of the courtroom
and actually winked at my aunt.
And you literally are just smiling
and you walk out smirking and winked at her, at--
winked at the mother, Tina's mother.
That's an animal. That's not a human.
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CORINNE: It's just crazy how think about their entire life.
All their teenage years, all the quads and riding
that they would have been able to do,
all of what they should have been able to do,
just taken.
This is not how it's supposed to be.
ARLENE: I miss their laughter. I miss their smiles.
I still miss my kids and see these others
with their grandkids, and I sit there and say,
"I wonder what mine would have been doing now.
Would I be a great grandma by now?"
I'll never be.
You know, and that hurts...
every single day.
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