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00:00Who set it up?
00:08Tell you the truth about this.
00:13Everybody else is pointing the finger at you.
00:21The idea of a hitman is a long-time trope of the movies.
00:26You've got John Cusack and gross point blank.
00:28You've got the guys from Pulp Fiction, Dressed in Black, The Narrow Ties.
00:33Even more recently, Michael Passbender is the killer.
00:37This case was more like Fargo.
00:39This was Amateur Hour.
00:41I felt that this was a story that should be told.
00:46And 25 years later, it's just being told again.
00:52The case had a number of twists and turns.
00:55There was a business card attached to his head.
01:01They create a homemade silencer with an empty soda bottle.
01:07Who does that?
01:10And when you hear what they did it for, what the price was, you scratch your head.
01:17Did she set this up?
01:19Ben Franklin said three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead.
01:23In this case, three people couldn't keep a secret.
01:27One of those bullets had the victim playing on it.
01:30We were all asking the same questions.
01:32My name is Raymond Coladonato.
01:42And Joe Lewinsky was a close friend of mine.
01:46He was a big brother to me.
01:49Anybody who knew Joe would call him loose.
01:53It would be a deep loose.
01:55He was a fun guy to be around and always cracking jokes, having a good time.
02:01Joe didn't have any children.
02:02He liked partying.
02:04His dad did have a landscape business.
02:07Joe did landscaping also.
02:09But he had other ways to make money.
02:12Buying and selling cars.
02:13Repairing other people's cars.
02:15And in the wintertime, Joe was a snowplower.
02:23The night of December 14th, I came home from work.
02:27I received the phone call at 6.36 or 6.37 p.m.
02:31Joe's dad, Mr. Lewinsky, was on the other side of that line.
02:36He said, Joe didn't show up to do any of his snow plowing.
02:40We don't know where he is.
02:44And we can't get into the shop because it's locked and you only have the key.
02:48Joe's place was mainly a structure of many garages.
02:53That's where he ran the business.
02:55But above, the two that were in the front were a studio apartment.
02:59So I arrived.
03:00I opened the door because I had the key.
03:02And when I entered, I went up the stairs.
03:05Now, these stairs were rather steep, wooden, crickety.
03:10I couldn't walk up them without making noise.
03:14I went upstairs and I saw that he was on the bed.
03:19That was dark.
03:21So I called his name.
03:22Joe, Joe.
03:24Joe, get up.
03:26You awake?
03:27You all right?
03:27Joe.
03:29There was no response.
03:30So I went over and I put my two fingers, my index finger and my middle finger on his back.
03:36And at that point is when I realized something was terribly wrong here.
03:43And he was cold to the touch.
03:44Our people got a call.
03:49The officers took a look at the scene, found Joe Nowinski face down in his bed,
03:56bleeding from the area of his ear and apparently deceased.
04:01When we entered the crime scene, it was in disarray.
04:06They didn't find any sign of forced entry.
04:11Clothes strewn about, et cetera.
04:13The wallet was left open.
04:16It's hard to tell if something is missing because we don't know what's normally at the scene.
04:20So initially, the thought is, well, was there a struggle?
04:25Was there a dispute that went on?
04:29However, the body tells a different story.
04:32Joe was laying in bed, partially undressed and covered by a blanket,
04:39suggesting that at the time he was probably asleep.
04:43About midnight was the approximate time of death.
04:46And he was a big guy, so if, in fact, he had been awakened while the assailants were present,
04:55there would have been a struggle and there would have been a fight.
04:58And the scene would have been much different.
05:00So what we took away was that he was basically executed while he was sleeping.
05:06We could see there was some copper bullet fragments present on and near the body.
05:12And there were little bits of paper surrounding his head.
05:17One curiosity reported that the scene was the presence of a business card on the side of Joe's head.
05:25The card was kind of a mystery.
05:29The name of their company was Pain Realty.
05:32Now, it's spelled differently than Pain, P-A-I-N,
05:36but the significance of the word pain may be connected in some way.
05:43Maybe the suspect left it as an indication that, yeah, I'm going to deliver some pain.
05:50The murder of Joe Nowinski was a rarity and not something we see often,
05:56especially in West Hartford.
05:58West Hartford is a suburb of the city of Hartford.
06:01It's a pretty safe town.
06:05We'd get a murder maybe every other year.
06:08It was a whodunit to start with.
06:10So the officer walked into the victim's friends, relatives, and associates
06:15because they didn't shed any light on the incident.
06:17I met Joe, like, 56 years ago.
06:30He was 14, I was 10.
06:31You know, riding bikes, playing basketball.
06:34We're always at one another's house.
06:36As we got a little older, probably around 12, 13 years old,
06:38we dated for pretty much six years, on and off,
06:42and then we got married a year after high school.
06:44So I was 19.
06:47Joe was, what, 22, 23 when we got married?
06:51That's our wedding photo.
06:53He was just really caring and made me feel, you know,
07:00that he was just the one that I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life.
07:04Then we talked about having a family and having kids and things like that.
07:09That just got to the point later on, I guess, we kind of just, like, grew apart.
07:13We were divorced.
07:15We were married pretty much, probably, about almost three years, three and a half years.
07:18I, to this day, believed that he loved me and he still,
07:21but we were just better friends than we were as husband and wife.
07:25Joe never remarried or had children, but he loved his family.
07:29Uncle Joey was a big kid.
07:34He just liked to have fun.
07:36He had to be the center of attention, like, the biggest personality in the room.
07:40And he just, he didn't grow up.
07:42And even, like, I was looking at some pictures, and it's the five siblings,
07:47and it's a picture of them all as little kids.
07:50And he's standing behind them, like, making a pose.
07:54And that's so him, even as a kid.
07:57Joe is my uncle.
07:58He was definitely the fun uncle.
08:00He was the guy with the loud car, boats, motorcycles.
08:04One of the things I think about the most when I think about him is
08:07my grandmother yelling at him for driving too fast,
08:10because you could usually hear him coming up the street.
08:16We were crazy kids growing up.
08:18His true passion was cars had to have a high-performance motor,
08:24had to have the loud exhaust.
08:26My brother Steve owned a car that he used to drag race.
08:31We did a lot of things.
08:32A lot of boating, a lot of amusement parks, a lot of racing,
08:37a lot of demolition derbies.
08:40That's one.
08:41And he used to go blue fishing.
08:45Oh, my God.
08:46You know how you know Joe was on the boat?
08:50Big blue, yeah, big blue.
08:52He'd be yelling, oh, my God, he cleared the boat out, right?
08:54Just so you could get his side of the boat.
08:56Yeah, big mouth.
08:58Big, big, big, large mouth.
08:59He had to be noticed.
09:00And he was.
09:02I think Uncle Joey lived his life to the fullest.
09:04Every time I think Uncle Joey,
09:05if I just remember back to when I was little,
09:07it's always fun things that I remember.
09:10I just remember happiness and love.
09:13And that's all I want him to be remembered.
09:16It breaks my heart that he's,
09:18most people only know him as a murder victim.
09:23When they said they found Joe, that he was dead,
09:26they said he was shot.
09:27I didn't want to know.
09:29Because I didn't want to remember him
09:31that last time I saw him.
09:32I wanted to remember how I knew him before.
09:35not seeing him with a bullet in his head
09:38and laying in his bed.
09:40I didn't want that.
09:44I want to remember him like you see him in there
09:46with that smile, this gold chain.
09:48He's loved.
09:54He's still loved.
10:00After his murder, there was lots of questions,
10:03you know, why?
10:04I didn't know if there was somebody
10:05trying to get revenge on him.
10:08Were they going to try to hurt someone else in the family?
10:11A lot of us all went into hiding at that point.
10:12We kind of stayed home.
10:14And my mother said,
10:15Graeme, watch your back
10:16because you have no idea who or what
10:18or when it might be coming for you or anybody else.
10:25The investigators really were at a loss
10:28for what this might have been.
10:29They obviously go speak to various people
10:32to try to find out if there was any ongoing beefs
10:35or anything like that.
10:37They also now look into the business card
10:39from Payne Real Estate
10:40and, you know, whether that had any role.
10:43We did connect with the owner of the company
10:45and he had stated that Joe and Penn
10:48wanted to buy some property
10:49and it didn't work out,
10:51but he took his business card
10:52and he had nothing to do with it.
10:55You know, everything's a building block
10:56in an investigation.
10:58You start from the body, work your way out
11:00and try to figure out what has meaning
11:03in a crime scene and what doesn't.
11:05There was not any forced entry in this situation
11:09and, you know, it appears Mr. Nowinski
11:11knew his attacker.
11:15Investigators learned that Joe, the deceased,
11:18had a girlfriend.
11:20Rosemary Cusano.
11:24She was 30s, tall, long, flowing hair,
11:28um, sexy looking.
11:30You see, wear a lot of lipstick,
11:35real deep red lipstick all the time.
11:38Hey, kiss that broad, you're gonna be red all over.
11:41I know Joe was very much in love with her.
11:47How could he not?
11:48She was a very good looking woman.
11:49From what I know,
11:52from what I've seen of Rose with Joe,
11:55being how long they were together,
11:57it was, for me, it wasn't long.
11:59Because I, I, Joe just brought her on.
12:02I'd say, if anything,
12:05a couple of months,
12:07maybe a couple of months.
12:08We would meet her at parties.
12:11My wife would talk to her,
12:12play sports,
12:13we'd eat,
12:14we'd drink,
12:15we'd have fun.
12:16I know she was very, like,
12:18flirtatious with his friends and stuff.
12:22One day,
12:23my aunt was standing behind Rosemary
12:25and one of my uncle's friends,
12:27and I guess she made a very sexual comment
12:30to his friend.
12:31And so I think that thought process
12:34with some of my family
12:35was that she was like that
12:37to men.
12:40We all understood how she was.
12:41She liked to flirt with the guys
12:43and stuff like that.
12:44Hitting on guys,
12:45like hugging them,
12:46putting their arm around,
12:47you know,
12:48talking with them,
12:49not meaning anything,
12:50just to tease Joe.
12:52He was a little bit jealous
12:52like that, you know?
12:55When an investigator hears
12:56that someone is talking about
12:58maybe a loved one
12:59in a very positive way,
13:00that's a person
13:02that I want to talk with.
13:06We actually contacted
13:08his girlfriend, Rosemary.
13:10She was very forthcoming
13:13with information,
13:14but she didn't seem upset.
13:17Rosemary gave us a background
13:19on their relationship.
13:21It was complicated.
13:24Their relationship
13:25was pretty hot and cold.
13:28I think they were both
13:30very emotional people.
13:32And she, you know,
13:34shared that he could be
13:36verbally abusive at times
13:38and sometimes physically abusive.
13:41Yeah, I think I do recall
13:47hearing that Joe would
13:48sometimes get loud with her
13:51for various reasons.
13:52There was a time where
13:53I was at the shop working
13:56and they were clearly
13:58in a shouting match.
14:00It clearly elevated.
14:02She was hands-on all over him.
14:04Yeah, of course, he, you know,
14:05puts his hands up
14:06and tries to get away
14:07and, you know,
14:08hold her back a little bit.
14:09And I stepped in between them
14:11and I said,
14:12no, this has got to stop.
14:13Or, Joe,
14:13this has got to stop
14:14or I'm leaving.
14:16I don't know
14:17what it was pertaining to,
14:19but it was a time
14:20that I was very uncomfortable
14:22and they knew it.
14:25It slowed down at that point.
14:26They did stop the bickering
14:28and we'll leave it at that.
14:31This piques our interest.
14:33We want to try to confirm.
14:35And there was another friend
14:38of the victim telling us
14:40that Joe treated Rosemary very bad.
14:44This was Mark Pesquale.
14:48He had a small engine repair shop.
14:51He worked on boats,
14:52boat motors and jet skis
14:56and snowmobiles.
14:57I don't think
14:58particularly prosperous.
14:59He lived in his parents' house
15:01in the basement.
15:03Mark Pesquale
15:04was someone Joe met
15:06up at the lake.
15:09Joe was having trouble
15:10with his boat.
15:12Went over to the marina
15:13to see if they could see
15:14what was wrong with it
15:15and that's where he met Mark.
15:17Joe had a boat
15:19and Mark had a marine repair shop.
15:23So the friendship
15:23was probably more convenient
15:25for Joe to get some free work
15:29done on his boat.
15:30He was, he's a weird looking guy.
15:33He's a pretty short man.
15:36His hair is really, really curly,
15:38kind of all over the place.
15:41He's not the most attractive being.
15:43Mark, I call him crazy eyes, huh?
15:47He did have one wandering eye.
15:50Joe, I said,
15:51Joe, this guy ain't for you, man.
15:52What are you hanging with him for?
15:53Well, you got the marina.
15:54Get my boat fixed for nothing, Steve.
15:56Take care of me.
15:57I said, I don't know, Joe.
15:59I don't know, Joe.
16:00That guy ain't too slick.
16:02We were talking to him
16:03and Mark admitted
16:05that he knew Rosemary
16:06and Joe.
16:08Mark said he said
16:09he treated her violently
16:10and perhaps there was
16:12some fear of that.
16:14We delved a little further
16:16with Rosemary
16:17about Joe.
16:20It turns out
16:21Rosemary
16:22was the last person
16:23to actually have eyes on
16:25and see him alive.
16:26This case,
16:37Rosemary told us
16:38earlier that day.
16:39She had stopped
16:41to see him.
16:44She went upstairs
16:46and his door was open.
16:49Our apartment was in disarray.
16:50He was lying in the bed
16:55and she surprised him
16:56and he's like,
16:56what the hell are you doing here?
16:57And she goes,
16:59the door was open.
17:00I was calling you.
17:01The door is open.
17:02And he said something like,
17:03well, that's not like me.
17:06And I think she saw a joint
17:08in the ashtray or something.
17:11And he became very irate.
17:14He yelled and screamed at her,
17:15told her to get the hell out,
17:17pushed her against the wall.
17:18She left
17:18and then they spoke
17:20a little bit later
17:21and they went to dinner together.
17:24Like nothing ever happened.
17:28Rosemary, she had kids
17:30and she told us
17:31he had all kinds of presents
17:33wrapped up for all the kids
17:35that night.
17:38Joe gave them
17:39early Christmas presents
17:41and as they leave,
17:45the last thing Joe says to her
17:47something to the effect
17:48of have a nice life.
17:56I think he realized
17:57that he and Rosemary
17:59had come to the end.
18:01He gave those presents
18:03to the boys
18:04two weeks before Christmas.
18:06Maybe Joe had decided
18:08that he was done with Rosemary.
18:11Was there some motive here?
18:15It wouldn't be abnormal
18:17for her to have access
18:18to his apartment.
18:20When they had this information,
18:22their first thoughts were,
18:24did Rosemary
18:24kill Joe?
18:26The investigator hears
18:34that someone
18:34has placed themselves
18:36at the scene.
18:36It piques our interest.
18:39Oftentimes,
18:40people that are closer
18:41to the victim
18:42are often looked at.
18:44But you don't want to go
18:46necessarily with one theory
18:47and try to make your evidence
18:49fit that theory.
18:50You want to be open
18:51to any possibility.
18:53I believe it was
18:55in the area of 8 or 9 p.m.
18:58that Rosemary
18:59had last seen Joe
19:02and she goes home
19:04with her boys.
19:05In this case,
19:07we conduct our interviews
19:08and we check with alibis
19:10and we verify
19:11that she was telling the truth.
19:13And the problem was
19:14one of Joe Nowenski's employees
19:16was supposed to
19:18work that night
19:19and so Joe had left
19:21some keys for him
19:22in the mailbox.
19:25But the keys
19:27were not in the usual place.
19:28One can assume
19:30it could have been used
19:31by the killers to get in,
19:32especially to get in quietly.
19:34It was well known
19:36that Joe kept a spare key
19:38in his mailbox.
19:39If anyone knew that
19:44could access the apartment
19:45and at this point
19:47we had nothing to indicate
19:49that Rosemary
19:51was directly involved.
19:55But during our interview
19:56with Rosemary,
19:57we learned
19:58Joe had some dicey
20:00relationships
20:01with other people.
20:02He sold a little weed,
20:03sold a little coke.
20:04Load trucking,
20:06turning back odometers.
20:07Who the hell's saying that?
20:08The cops are saying that?
20:09No!
20:10I was a mechanic for Joe
20:12and at no time
20:13did Joe ever ask me
20:15to roll back in O'Donnell.
20:16Stolen merchandise,
20:18gambling,
20:18sale of false ID.
20:20One of the early concerns
20:21of the investigators
20:22was there might be
20:23too many suspects
20:24just based on him
20:25being a jerk
20:26to people around.
20:27And his lifestyle,
20:28it was somewhat
20:29of a mystery.
20:32He had told some friends
20:33over the period
20:34of a couple weeks
20:35that a couple of his cars
20:37in his driveway,
20:38the tires
20:39had been slashed.
20:42The window
20:43in the garage
20:44was broken.
20:45The incidents
20:46occurred probably
20:48a week prior
20:49to the murder.
20:52He thought
20:53somebody had targeted him.
20:58He was concerned
21:00that if somebody
21:01is causing property damage,
21:03will that lead
21:05to violent actions.
21:08So he inquired
21:09with somebody
21:10about some sort
21:11of surveillance
21:12or security system,
21:13but that never
21:15came to fruition.
21:16It piques my interest,
21:20but we were unable
21:22to determine
21:23who slashed
21:24those tires.
21:25However,
21:26we interviewed
21:27Rosemary again,
21:29and Rosemary
21:30shared with us
21:31that several weeks
21:34leading up
21:35to the homicide,
21:35there was a
21:36small family outing
21:39that Rosemary,
21:39I think her mother
21:42and her sister
21:43and her kids,
21:45they took a day trip
21:46to Yankee Candle
21:48up in Massachusetts,
21:50and Joe didn't go,
21:53but his friend Mark did,
21:55which was just
21:57kind of odd.
21:59And then we said,
22:00well, tell us
22:01more about Mark.
22:02Rosemary was complaining
22:06to Mark
22:07about this relationship
22:08she had,
22:09that Joseph Nowinski
22:09did not treat her so well.
22:11At one point,
22:12Mark says to her,
22:14I know Joe
22:15treats you horribly.
22:17And then Mark
22:17told Rosemary
22:19that he had hired
22:20a private investigator
22:21to follow Nowinski.
22:22It turns out
22:23he's going into Hartford
22:25and he's picking up
22:26prostitutes
22:27and taking them home
22:28and having sex with.
22:30Prostitutes,
22:30I have no knowledge of that.
22:32I have no knowledge.
22:34Why would you go
22:34hire some prostitute
22:36when you can have
22:37any picket or litter
22:37you want?
22:38Come on.
22:39I know Joe very well.
22:41He was not running around
22:42with no hookers.
22:43I hope I'm not wrong,
22:44but I don't think so.
22:47I've never seen it.
22:51So when Rosemary
22:52recounts that conversation
22:54with Mark about,
22:55you know,
22:56a private eye
22:56observing and confirming
22:58that Joe is looking
22:59for prostitutes,
23:00she presented to us
23:03that really angered her.
23:07And she makes the statement
23:10that I should have
23:11somebody beat him up.
23:14And Mark's reply
23:15is,
23:17better yet,
23:18why don't you have someone
23:20put a bullet in his head?
23:21That's an aha moment.
23:27And that's pretty close
23:28to what happened,
23:29so it was a statement
23:31of some significance to us.
23:33in all the conversation
23:35that Joe thought
23:37somebody was out
23:38to get him,
23:40not in the slightest
23:41did he ever inform anyone
23:43that he thought
23:43Mark was that person.
23:49Two days after the murder,
23:51he was interviewed
23:52at our police station again.
23:54Once my partner
23:57and I started
23:57speaking with
23:59Mark Pascal,
24:00Mark was forthcoming
24:02with information
24:03regarding his relationship
24:05with Joe.
24:06He admitted
24:07that he knew Rosemary.
24:09He hung out with Joe,
24:10knew him for about two years.
24:12But he denied
24:12any involvement
24:13in the murder.
24:16And to his alibi,
24:18which,
24:18if you could call it that,
24:19was that he was working
24:20and he went home
24:21and watched TV
24:22and it's not a rock
24:23side of the alibi.
24:24But a lot of people
24:25do have that,
24:26people that live alone,
24:28for instance.
24:29And he denied
24:30the statement
24:30about a bullet in the head.
24:32But then he admitted
24:33that he did tell Rosemary
24:34about the private investigator
24:35and then revealed to us
24:38that there was
24:39no private investigator.
24:41That was a story
24:42he told Rosemary.
24:46And then Mark
24:47was characterizing
24:48his and Rosemary's
24:50relationship
24:51as a romantic,
24:53sexual relationship.
24:55This dude's so full of shit, man.
24:58Really.
24:59He had no sticky relationship
25:00with her.
25:01Come on, man.
25:07In addition to that trip
25:09in Massachusetts,
25:10in November,
25:12he and Rosemary
25:13went away for a weekend
25:15up in Maine.
25:16and they had sex.
25:23And I went to Mars
25:24recently
25:25and I got some popcorn
25:26and I watched a good movie.
25:28You won't believe that one,
25:29will you?
25:32We got no indication
25:34that that was the relationship
25:36from Rosemary.
25:38And that,
25:39that's an indication of us
25:40that Mark may be
25:42in a little bit
25:43of a fantasy land.
25:47So,
25:48we want to be able
25:49to gauge
25:50whether he is
25:51telling the truth,
25:52whether he's being
25:53deceptive or not.
25:54We briefly spoke with him
25:56and we offered him
25:59the polygraph.
26:04Now,
26:04the results
26:06of the polygraph
26:07are not admissible
26:07in court.
26:08However,
26:09it is a tool
26:10to detect deception.
26:13And he showed
26:14many signs
26:16of deception.
26:20We confronted him
26:22with the discrepancies.
26:23Listen,
26:24you're deceptive here,
26:25you're deceptive there.
26:26either
26:27you thought
26:28you were doing
26:29something good,
26:29you thought
26:30you were saving
26:31this woman
26:31from domestic violence,
26:34or
26:34you're a cold-blooded murderer
26:37when you shot
26:37the guy in the head.
26:38What happened?
26:41He said,
26:42you know what,
26:43uh,
26:44I'm,
26:45I'm gonna tell you
26:46everything.
26:47I'm gonna tell you
26:48everything.
26:49I don't want a lawyer,
26:51I just want
26:52to get it over with.
26:56The investigator
26:58called me at home
26:59and his exact words
27:00were,
27:01we gotta break
27:02in the case.
27:03All the original theories
27:04about who this might have been
27:05went out the window
27:06and it became
27:06a murder for hire.
27:07during our interview
27:10with Mark,
27:12he said,
27:13I know who did it.
27:15Two young,
27:1618,
27:1719-year-old youth
27:18who he knew
27:19from being around town,
27:20someone named
27:21Eduardo
27:22and someone named Matt.
27:28I am Matthew Terrell's cousin.
27:31We were,
27:31we were pretty close
27:33as a family growing up.
27:35We would all come
27:36gather together
27:37for holiday dinners,
27:38family picnics.
27:40I was
27:41the only girl
27:43of all of
27:44the kids.
27:45Matt would always
27:47make sure
27:48that I was okay
27:49and he would always
27:51make sure
27:51that I was included
27:52and
27:52he was just,
27:57he was just
27:58a kind soul.
28:00I'm sorry.
28:01When Matt transitioned
28:05into like
28:06middle school
28:07and high school,
28:09there were
28:09a little bit
28:10more unsavory things
28:12that he might have
28:13been exposed to.
28:14He did
28:14spend some time
28:16in and out of
28:16juvenile hall
28:17and I don't think
28:19back then
28:21I really knew
28:22how much
28:23he was struggling
28:24in his personal life.
28:26Maybe things would have
28:27turned out differently.
28:29If you're
28:30not in
28:31the criminal
28:32life,
28:34you probably
28:34don't know
28:36anybody who
28:36will kill
28:37for hire.
28:38You can't go on
28:39Angie's list
28:40and look for
28:40a four-star review.
28:42You have to ask around.
28:47Initially,
28:48Mark said
28:48he knew
28:49Eduardo Santiago
28:50from his
28:54small engine repair
28:55or boat shop
28:56and Matthew
28:57seemed to be
28:58more a friend
28:58of Eduardo Santiago.
29:01Mark tells them
29:02this girl,
29:02Rosemary,
29:03she's got a really
29:04bad boyfriend.
29:06He beats her up.
29:07He's horrible.
29:08He's awful.
29:09He asked them
29:10if they would be
29:11interested
29:11or they knew
29:12somebody
29:12who would kill
29:14someone for
29:15money.
29:17And
29:18their response
29:21was,
29:21well,
29:22what do you got
29:23and how much?
29:24so the plan
29:27was to use
29:28a rifle
29:29but it's
29:29going to be
29:30loud
29:30and they
29:31would have
29:31to develop
29:33some kind
29:33of silencer
29:34or suppressor.
29:35This is a book
29:36called
29:36It's got a lot
29:38of how-to's
29:38for various
29:39dirty tricks
29:40on how
29:41to manufacture
29:41drugs,
29:42weapons
29:43and one
29:44of the areas
29:44is how
29:45to make
29:45homemade silencers.
29:47The book
29:48was readily
29:48available
29:49at libraries,
29:50bookstores.
29:52Apparently,
29:52Eduardo
29:53may have read
29:54that to create
29:55a homemade
29:56silencer
29:57with an empty
29:58soda bottle
29:59taped to the end
30:00of the barrel
30:00and filled
30:01with paper towels.
30:02And that also
30:03explains the
30:04little pieces
30:05of paper
30:05that they
30:05found on
30:06Joe Nowinski
30:06that night.
30:09The night
30:09of the murder,
30:10Mark drove
30:11the two of them
30:12about a half
30:12a block away
30:13from the
30:14victim's house.
30:16The three
30:16of them
30:17walked
30:18to Joe's
30:18residence.
30:20They took
30:20the key
30:21that was
30:22in the mailbox
30:23and that's
30:24where Joe
30:25kept it.
30:26Who's going
30:26to look
30:27in your mailbox
30:27for a key?
30:28The only thing
30:29I can think
30:29is that Mark
30:31knew Joe
30:31had put
30:32his keys
30:33in the mailbox.
30:35Both
30:36Eduardo
30:37and Matthew
30:38went upstairs.
30:40Mark claimed
30:41he waited outside
30:42and he heard
30:42a muffled noise
30:43and the two
30:45men returned
30:46to him
30:46and said
30:47he's done.
30:50In some ways
30:52it's a relief
30:53that you finally
30:54got the story,
30:55you finally
30:55are on the
30:56right track,
30:57but it doesn't
30:58end here.
31:00Mr. Tyrell
31:01was arrested
31:02by the detectives.
31:04Also,
31:04our department
31:05sent a team
31:06out to
31:06Mr. Saniago's
31:08house
31:08and found him
31:15asleep in bed.
31:17In one of the
31:18bedrooms,
31:19they found
31:19a .223 rifle
31:20which matched
31:22the type of firearm
31:23that was used
31:24in the killing
31:25of Joe.
31:25They also found
31:27additional rounds
31:28in Eduardo's
31:30house.
31:32Eduardo admitted
31:34to being
31:35at the scene.
31:36The business card
31:37turned out
31:38is more
31:38when they
31:39went through
31:39his wallet,
31:40the card fell out
31:41and fell onto him.
31:43And then
31:43he claimed
31:44that it was
31:45Matthew
31:45who shot
31:46Joe.
31:48Matt pointed
31:48the finger at him,
31:49he pointed
31:50the finger at Matt.
31:51However,
31:53Eduardo's
31:53palm prints
31:54were lifted
31:55off of
31:56the murder weapon.
31:58But there's also
32:00a lot more
32:00evidence
32:01related to the crime.
32:03We got the call
32:04from the lab.
32:04My investigator
32:05told me
32:05they had found
32:06markings on
32:07some of the
32:08projectiles
32:09and casings
32:10and it was
32:11something I had
32:11never seen before.
32:13He goes,
32:14somebody etched
32:15a name
32:16in one of the
32:16bullets.
32:17What's the name?
32:22J-O-E.
32:27So one of those
32:28bullets
32:29had the victim's
32:31name on it.
32:35Our belief
32:35is that
32:36Eduardo Santiago
32:37had carved
32:38Joe's name
32:39on these rounds.
32:41He not only
32:42carved it
32:43on the cartridge,
32:43which is fairly large,
32:44but he had
32:48actually carved
32:49Joe
32:50on a round
32:51that was about
32:51that big.
32:53It's a Hollywood
32:54idea of having
32:54a bullet
32:55with someone's
32:55name on it,
32:56but in this case,
32:57Eduardo Santiago
32:58made it very literal.
33:00Just shows
33:01how twisted
33:02these people are.
33:04Like,
33:04no nice kid
33:05is gonna go
33:06do something
33:07like this.
33:08And
33:09when you hear
33:10what they did it for,
33:11what the price was,
33:13you scratch your head.
33:14Mark,
33:15we asked them,
33:16well,
33:17how much?
33:17What was the payment?
33:19What was,
33:19you know,
33:19how much?
33:20And he said,
33:20well,
33:22they didn't want cash
33:24because they were
33:25interested
33:25in a snowmobile
33:27I had in my garage.
33:31And they pointed
33:32to one he had
33:33and he told them,
33:35it needs
33:35to transmit
33:36where he goes,
33:36well,
33:37we'll take it.
33:38That's what it
33:39comes down to,
33:40a broken snowmobile.
33:41We were all
33:43taken back
33:44that
33:44somebody could kill
33:46for a broken
33:47down snowmobile.
33:48And that's all
33:48they kept saying
33:49was a snowmobile,
33:50a broken down
33:50snowmobile.
33:51I'm like,
33:51what?
33:52There's a lot
33:53of questions
33:53that I don't
33:54understand.
33:56It doesn't add up
33:57Mark and Joe.
33:59If they were
33:59friends,
34:00friends help
34:01friends.
34:02Friends don't
34:03kill friends.
34:04Or was there
34:07something else
34:07that was
34:08causing this?
34:11So you would
34:11think the link
34:12is Rosemary.
34:16Many murder
34:17for hire plots
34:18start with
34:19a spouse,
34:20a girlfriend,
34:21a boyfriend.
34:23Did Rosemary
34:23set this up?
34:28What are your
34:29feelings
34:29about Rosemary?
34:34In my heart,
34:42in my heart
34:43only,
34:44I think that
34:44she fueled
34:45the fire.
34:46She fueled
34:47the fire on
34:48this.
34:49And there's a lot
34:50of us still
34:50wondering about
34:51this.
34:53If Joe and
34:54Rosemary were
34:55really going
34:56through hard
34:56times,
34:57wouldn't it
34:57have been
34:58just easier
34:58to wait
35:00it out
35:01for Mark?
35:01If Roe and
35:03Joe were
35:03going to
35:04separate,
35:05then Mark
35:07would eventually
35:08have Roe
35:09anyhow?
35:10It just
35:10doesn't make
35:11sense.
35:12I just feel
35:13that if this
35:14guy was
35:14because of
35:15Rosemary,
35:15is this why
35:16Joe died
35:16because of
35:17Rosemary?
35:18For some
35:18reason,
35:18I just feel,
35:20well,
35:20if he never
35:21hooked up
35:21with her,
35:22that he
35:23would be
35:23alive today.
35:24So we had
35:45dealings with
35:46Rosemary
35:46Casano when
35:47she spoke to
35:48us at the
35:48state's
35:49attorney's
35:49office,
35:49very much
35:50in love
35:50with Joe.
35:51Who could
35:52be gruff
35:52and verbally
35:54abusive,
35:55but a nice
35:55guy.
35:56She said he's
35:56a nice
35:56guy.
35:57I don't
35:57know that
35:58there was
35:58any outward
36:00signs of
36:00domestic violence,
36:02but the way
36:02Mark perceived
36:03their relationship
36:04was a lot
36:05different than
36:05what Rosemary
36:06described their
36:07relationship as.
36:09He felt he
36:10was Rosemary's
36:12savior.
36:15Mark thought
36:17that he
36:18and Rosemary
36:19had,
36:21were going to
36:21have a life
36:21together,
36:22that if
36:23Joe was
36:24out of the
36:24picture,
36:26he and
36:26Rosemary
36:27could go
36:28off into
36:29the sunset.
36:30Mark almost
36:30became proud
36:32of what he
36:33had done
36:33because at
36:35the end of
36:36that interview,
36:37he said,
36:38can I call
36:38Rosemary to
36:39tell her that
36:40he had set
36:41this whole
36:41thing up
36:42because he
36:43wanted to
36:44be the hero
36:44himself to
36:45Rosemary?
36:45and they
36:48thought that
36:49very strange.
36:50It was almost
36:51like an honorable
36:52thing for him
36:53to have done
36:53or would be
36:54seen as such
36:55in Rosemary's
36:56eyes.
36:57Rosemary
36:58subsequently
36:58cleared of
37:00any suspicion.
37:01I don't
37:13feel sorry
37:13for Mark.
37:15You know,
37:15Mark was the
37:16orchestrator of all
37:17this.
37:18If there wasn't
37:19Mark, Joe would
37:20still be here
37:20today.
37:21That's how I feel.
37:27Mr. Santiago
37:28elected to go
37:29to trial.
37:30He was nothing
37:31but arrogant
37:32every time we
37:33ever saw him.
37:35He just had
37:35this smirk
37:36on his face.
37:37Oh my God.
37:39It was,
37:39I'll just never
37:40forget, like,
37:40you know,
37:41I'm a big shot.
37:42I shot him
37:43type thing.
37:44The only one
37:44I'd say I did
37:45feel sorry for
37:46was the other
37:47one, Matthew.
37:48He looked so
37:49young.
37:51He looked like
37:51a little kid.
37:53I will say
37:53this, Matthew
37:54Tyrell, we
37:54approached Matthew
37:55Tyrell, there
37:56was nothing we
37:57could offer him
37:58in terms of
37:58his cooperation
38:00in this case.
38:01And I just
38:02assumed when
38:03we brought him
38:03in, he was
38:04going to look
38:04at me and
38:05say, thanks,
38:05but no thanks.
38:07I'm just going
38:08to go serve
38:08my sentence.
38:09He looked at
38:09me, thought
38:11for a moment,
38:12and then said,
38:13you know what?
38:13I'll testify.
38:14It's the right
38:15thing to do
38:15for the family.
38:16When Matt came
38:29to court to
38:29testify during
38:30Santiago's trial,
38:32he read a
38:32statement.
38:34He was sorry
38:35for what he did,
38:36that he should
38:37have stopped it.
38:38He apologized
38:39to our entire
38:39family, to his
38:40family, and he
38:42was sobbing
38:43almost uncontrollably.
38:45The fact that
38:46Matt cooperated
38:49with the police,
38:50it tells me
38:51that he is
38:54the kid that
38:56I grew up
38:57with, and deep
38:59down in his
38:59heart, he's not
39:01this person.
39:02I know most
39:06of us in my
39:08family think
39:09he got a
39:09bad deal.
39:11There's days I
39:12wonder if he
39:14really deserves
39:14to spend the
39:15rest of his
39:15life in prison.
39:19Past 25 years,
39:21it's still hard
39:22for our family.
39:29My oldest
39:30brother, every
39:30year, never
39:31lets me forget.
39:35He just
39:35called, he
39:36says, remember?
39:38Well, today
39:38this day,
39:40it's the day
39:40our brother
39:41got taken
39:42from us.
39:45My brother,
39:46Rick, he
39:47loved you.
39:49He did a lot.
39:53My brother
39:54loved him.
39:55I feel bad
39:56in him.
39:58He never
39:58forgets
39:59every year.
40:00never forgets
40:0325 years.
40:04I've been
40:05hearing that
40:05every year.
40:08What's that
40:09tell you?
40:13Joe was
40:13loved.
40:15I wish this
40:16was different
40:16that he was
40:18here, and
40:19you were
40:20interviewing him,
40:21and
40:22me love him.
40:29Joe was the
40:30nucleus.
40:31Joe held
40:31people together.
40:33And if he
40:34were here today,
40:35he would have
40:36held the group
40:37together.
40:40It's taken
40:4125 years.
40:44But Joe
40:45Nowinski has
40:46pulled us
40:48pulled us all
40:48together again
40:49by this
40:51documentary.
40:54And
40:54he's working
40:57from the heavens.
40:58And I'm sure
40:59we all will
41:00cherish and
41:02honor that
41:03memory.
41:03A lot of
41:11stuff can be
41:12hush-hush
41:13sometimes in a
41:14small town.
41:15I've never
41:15heard of a
41:16murder-for-hire
41:16case, especially
41:17out of Clay
41:18County, Kentucky.
41:19It was
41:19somebody with a
41:20Medetta.
41:21He was very
41:22short.
41:23He had no teeth.
41:24Not attractive
41:25at all.
41:26The witch
41:27doctor, that
41:28was the name
41:29that he went
41:29by.
41:30I love
41:30That
41:32did
41:33it
41:34.
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