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00:00Who said it up?
00:08Telling you the truth about this.
00:14Everybody on it is calling the favorite airport.
00:25Can we get a break?
00:26What do you got?
00:28Stop, stop, stop.
00:30Oh, he's just pissed.
00:33Get up, get up.
00:34This is a case that on its face
00:36looks fairly obvious
00:42as to who the shooter is.
00:47But what actually happened
00:50was so incredibly shocking
00:52that even detectives
00:55and seasoned journalists
00:57couldn't believe it.
00:58Who was behind this series of attacks
01:04of a neighborhood icon?
01:06He was punched.
01:08He was shot multiple times.
01:11And he had a hood on?
01:12Yes, and a mask.
01:14He was stabbed seven times.
01:15I thought the car was here.
01:16The entire family was under attack.
01:20Biomedical.
01:20It was brutal and crazy and unanswerable.
01:25Somebody got shot in the parking lot.
01:27He's dead.
01:29We had looked at the mafia.
01:31Now, we don't know if it's not coming from us.
01:36There is somebody behind the scenes
01:39pulling the strings
01:41and that begs the question.
01:43It's not coming.
02:04It's not coming from us.
02:05It's not coming from us.
02:06In September 2017, officers respond to an incident.
02:21The incident was recorded.
02:26The victim of the crime was Sylvester Zatola, commonly known as Sally Daz.
02:31He was 70 years old.
02:36He was merely standing outside when the video showed a male walk up to Mr. Zatola,
02:42engaged him in a short conversation, and basically asked him about employment.
02:46Sally Daz says, no, there's no employment around here.
02:49And he had turned around and started punching him several times.
02:55And then all of a sudden, he just started viciously beating him right to the ground.
02:59He had some bruising, and he had a broken rib.
03:07It's heartless.
03:13Zatola tells police that the perpetrator was an African-American male, didn't really know the age.
03:21So it's a pretty basic description for a suspect.
03:25So the detectives really didn't have anything kind of go on in this case.
03:29Who's walking up to an elderly gentleman, you know, and beating him like that?
03:33Zatola's backstory is interesting.
03:39He was a guy who was also known in the community as a reputable businessman and a very successful businessman at that.
03:48And his business was real estate.
03:51Eventually amassing more than $40 million of primarily residential buildings throughout New York City.
04:00His wife died years ago, so essentially he became a single father to his three children.
04:09He had two boys and one girl, Deborah, the daughter.
04:14His eldest son, Salvatore, and his younger son was Anthony.
04:20And also a plethora of grandchildren.
04:24He would tell anybody who asked that his family was the most important thing in the world to him.
04:31In fact, his two sons were brought in to run portions of his business.
04:37He was a fixture of that community.
04:41He had been a supporter, you know, of the police and helped the precinct out a lot during his lifetime.
04:47With security cameras, you know, outside his residence, supplying video to the police and detectives for crimes that occur in and around the area.
04:55He was like the godfather of that community.
04:58It has been widely said that he was like Santa Claus without a beard.
05:01He was a jolly old fellow.
05:03He would be the type of guy who would wave to kids on the street corner.
05:08Everybody knew him.
05:10So why is someone going after him?
05:12Really a gem of the community.
05:15You know, we had a rash of old people getting sucker punched, you know, throughout, you know, New York City during that time as well.
05:22So is it as someone who's following a trend?
05:24It didn't look like it was a full attempt, you know, of his life other than an assault or maybe a possible attempt at robbery.
05:33It could be, you know, of his visits were Thanksgiving to takeianoche.
05:39CBS 4 AM
05:56and tells the first officer he sees
05:57that somebody is either trying to carjack him or kidnap him.
06:01Because, you know, what else would there be?
06:03But they do an area canvas which shows up negative
06:07for the perpetrator in the area.
06:10At this time, the two incidents are considered separate,
06:14even though it's our same victim,
06:15because it's a description Sally Daz gave.
06:18It's very vague.
06:20Really, at this point, both of these incidents
06:22are really like a dead end.
06:24There's no other investigative information,
06:26and all leads are exhausted.
06:33So a little over a month later, 911 has called for a break
06:36in at the Zatola residence.
06:38So when the officers respond to Mrs. Zatola's home,
06:40they find him.
06:45He's bleeding profusely on the ground.
06:47He's been stabbed multiple times and slashed across the neck.
06:54And somehow, miraculously, he survived this brutal attack.
07:06He tells detectives the little bit that he knew
07:11that he's at home.
07:14The next thing he knows, there's a group of men in there.
07:17And there wasn't small talk, there wasn't a lot of threats
07:24or anything like that.
07:29They went right after him.
07:34And he didn't get any great physical description,
07:38with the exception of he believed that these were
07:41predominantly African-American men.
07:52It doesn't appear that there's any fourth entry.
07:55There's a code to get in.
07:56How did he have that code?
07:57And number two, Zatola has surveillance camera
08:02in his property.
08:05But guess what?
08:06There was no surveillance tape from that incident.
08:12They stole the home video surveillance.
08:15So this starts looking to us as,
08:18this might be an inside job.
08:19Someone's definitely trying to kill this guy.
08:23But wait a minute.
08:24Why did they want to kill him?
08:29Hi, my name is Frank DiMatteo.
08:30And I know Sally through the vending business.
08:35Are there things that just stays amongst the family
08:39and just don't share?
08:43Mob world family?
08:44They're not going to tell nobody nothing.
08:45The less people know, the better it is,
08:48because the less people got killed.
08:54What do you know about Sally Daz, you know?
08:58All you know about Sally, Sally was a good guy.
09:00He was affiliated with the Bananos.
09:02He had friends for protection.
09:05I was with a different family.
09:07But that's how we got to know him at all,
09:10because he was, in that area, it was a Banano area.
09:14So that's why we knew he had a friend up there.
09:19In New York City, there's five major crime families.
09:23And the Bananos really took a big chunk of the Bronx area.
09:29Many people don't walk around with a name tag that says,
09:34I'm in bed with a crime family.
09:37That's just not how it works.
09:40Zatola was considered an associate of the Banano family.
09:46Sally himself wasn't in the mafia, but he had enough friends
09:50and a Banano crew.
09:51So what makes you a mobster because you got a friend
09:55that's a mobster?
09:56To be able to do that world doesn't make him a gangster.
10:00Not everybody.
10:00I think because you know somebody, you're a gangster.
10:02It doesn't work that way.
10:03Only in maybe on TV or something like that or, or, or.
10:08But in the real world, no.
10:10If you're a moron, you're a moron that knows a gangster.
10:15This guy was a legitimate businessman on real estate.
10:19And then he was involved with Joker Poker Games.
10:22That's how he got started, which is a big business.
10:24So Joker Poker is an extremely popular video gaming machine
10:37that is sold to and placed in social clubs.
10:42And it is very, very profitable because there's
10:46a lot of money in it.
10:48Is that illegal?
10:50No, it's not legal.
10:51You can bring in millions, you know, yearly, so,
10:55and it's unrecorded.
10:56It can be so lucrative.
10:58I know guys got tons and tons and tons of money
11:00by doing that vending.
11:03Like I said, it's all under the table, so.
11:07So Sally Dads had Joker Poker machines,
11:09which he would run anywhere from a basement apartment building
11:13to the back of the bodega to numerous different commercial
11:16locations where they have secret spots in the back.
11:20The expectation of Sally Dads was to bring food to the family.
11:25That's kind of like how they put it,
11:27is bringing money, kicking money up to the Bonanno crime family
11:31to help support the Bonanno crime family.
11:34So at this point, the mafia, someone trying to whack him
11:39and bump him off from his own organization,
11:41from one of the other families, you know,
11:43to gain all his profits and take over those Joker Poker machines,
11:48or possibly even going into his real estate
11:50and trying to bump him out of real estate.
11:52Now, we don't know if it's not coming from us.
11:55You know, it could come from Bonanno's wanting to take him out,
11:58or some other family would try to move in on him.
12:01We don't know, because they don't tell us.
12:02So several months go by since the third incident.
12:13He's off the grid.
12:15Sally lay low, which is what you're supposed to do,
12:18not being flashy.
12:19He doesn't stay at the house anymore.
12:20He has a separate apartment.
12:22He really buttoned up his inner circle.
12:26And that included his kids, his grandkids,
12:30and a couple of mob associates that he does most of his business with.
12:35So I know the Bonanno's, they would reach out in the street
12:38and see if we knew anything about it,
12:40or anybody could find anything about it.
12:42And they didn't.
12:42That's what threw everybody off.
12:45At this point, it's becoming urgent that if law enforcement
12:51doesn't figure out who is targeting this elderly man,
12:56he will end up dead.
13:07One day in June 2018, Mr. Zatola was walking around
13:12in another section of the Bronx.
13:14He's been in hiding.
13:44Some approaches with a hoodie.
13:56On this day, Zatola's confronted outside of this new location.
14:02Somebody puts a gun into his face,
14:05is going to shoot him at point blank range and kill him, no doubt.
14:09Now, luckily for Sally Daz, the gun jams.
14:13And Sally Daz has his own firearm on him,
14:17and fires it at the fleeing perpetrator.
14:25So when the police arrive, you know, the first thing they do
14:27is they see Sally Daz and his son, Anthony Zatola.
14:31Mr. Zatola is a wreck.
14:32Mr. Zatola is a wreck.
14:34Yes.
14:35I was walking up 194th Street.
14:37I always turn around, because I always
14:38think there's a car up there.
14:39You follow me?
14:40Mm-hmm.
14:41So I didn't see no car.
14:42I turned around and see a black guy with a hood on.
14:45He walks across the street that way.
14:46He walks across the street that way.
14:48Mm-hmm.
14:49And he starts coming over to me like this.
14:51Oh, gosh.
14:52And he had a hood on?
14:53Yes.
14:54And a mask.
14:55So after this attempt, you know, Mrs. Zatola's kids,
14:58Deborah, Salvatore, and Anthony,
15:00they're all up in arms about what happened.
15:02That's what type of car was here.
15:04I didn't see that.
15:05I didn't see that.
15:06I didn't see that.
15:07I didn't see that.
15:08I didn't see that.
15:09I didn't see that.
15:10I didn't see that.
15:11I didn't see that.
15:12Mm-hmm.
15:13It was a four-door blue with Connecticut plates on it.
15:21But at this point, what's going through the detective's
15:23minds is he's relocated.
15:26People are behind this.
15:28How do they know where he is, right?
15:31And that's what makes this attack in June
15:36that much more brutal and crazy and unanswerable.
15:43Because he's in a location where nobody is supposed
15:46to know where he is.
15:50Dude, what did you see when you saw him with a firearm?
15:52What did you do?
15:53I said, don't move, don't move, don't move, don't move.
16:00Uh-huh.
16:01And he made a fire.
16:02And then you knew what happened.
16:03I thought he'd just scared him.
16:06He was returning fire, you know, to the perpetrator,
16:08so in self-defense.
16:09But he has an illegal firearm on him.
16:11How many shots did you fire?
16:12One.
16:12And do you have a little pistol permit?
16:14No.
16:15So this is interesting.
16:16He ends up getting arrested for illegal gun possession.
16:21Anthony, they should be checking all these cameras.
16:27So listen, I can't blame Sally Dance for carrying a firearm.
16:31Is it illegal?
16:31Yes.
16:32Is he getting arrested for it?
16:33Yes.
16:35Do I think a grand jury will ever indict him?
16:37You know, no.
16:39Why?
16:39Because there's four attempts on his life.
16:42But the law is the law.
17:05He is a real player.
17:06Yeah.
17:07And the one's going to kill him.
17:08Yeah.
17:09Go, go, go.
17:10Get him.
17:11Get him.
17:12Get him.
17:13Get him.
17:14Yeah, come on.
17:15He's still there?
17:16He's still there?
17:18Yeah.
17:18Yeah.
17:19Yeah, come on.
17:20He's still there?
17:22Yeah.
17:23Yeah.
17:24Yeah, come on.
17:25He's still there.
17:26We're here.
17:56Finally, in custody.
18:00Really what happens is after this fourth incident,
18:03the perpetrator for that incident
18:05ends up getting arrested a little while later in Manhattan
18:08for criminal possession of a weapon
18:10because he has that illegal firearm.
18:12I got the gun. I got the gun.
18:13You got the gun?
18:14And where was the gun driving?
18:15The gun was right... I saw him throw it.
18:17Over here.
18:18Okay.
18:19Yeah.
18:20The problem is in the Bronx,
18:22we don't get that information that the arrest is made.
18:25The arrest happened in Manhattan
18:28and the attempted shooting was in the Bronx.
18:31And both shootings and gun arrests happen all the time in New York City,
18:35so neither really warrants any kind of citywide action.
18:39And so both jurisdictions are left in the dark
18:42about what the other had.
18:44And I don't think anybody in law enforcement thought
18:48that these were the same group of perpetrators
18:51or at the very least the same group
18:54behind the planning of this.
19:01At this point in the investigation,
19:02now we start pulling jail phone calls to see who's calling,
19:06talking to Mr. Zatola to see if they have any idea who it is,
19:10or is it them?
19:11Mr. Zatola had very strong ties with Vinny.
19:16And Vinny Bassiano was the head of the Bonanno family.
19:21And not only were they really close friends,
19:25they were also really close business associates.
19:29Vinny, he's actually in jail during this whole incident.
19:32And the sons had approached him with a phone call to see even if the mafia is involved with this.
19:40Vinny, they think we know who these people are.
19:43I'm like, we have no idea.
19:44Yeah.
19:45We don't have anybody.
19:46And Vinny Gorgeous basically said right off the mark,
19:49the crime families have no involvement with this.
19:52This is something coming from outside.
19:54There's nobody that you bother.
19:55They should push you through this bullshit, man.
19:57Come on, man.
19:58Your father's a good person.
19:59Your father's the salt of the earth.
20:00The salt of the earth.
20:01He helped out everybody.
20:02You know what I mean?
20:03I don't know who's got this problem against them.
20:05And Vinny loved Sally Daz and for years contributed to the family.
20:10That's not somebody who they would want to get rid of.
20:12It's somebody that he knows.
20:13There's somebody that knows his routine.
20:16All right.
20:17All right.
20:18I just don't know who it is.
20:19And if it was, you know, another mafia organization,
20:22another one of those five families, you know,
20:25Vinny Gorgeous probably would have said something.
20:27But we got nothing like that.
20:32One day in July, Zatola's family vehicle stops and parks at the Zatola family compound.
20:57But it wasn't Sal Sr. who got out of the car.
21:01It was his son, Sal Jr.
21:06And all of a sudden,
21:08somebody was targeting what appeared to be his entire family.
21:17Sal Jr. is shot multiple times.
21:30It's rolling around on the ground.
21:34It's a gruesome crime.
21:35Again, in broad daylight.
21:37It was a life-threatening wound.
21:42You know, and he was rushed to the hospital.
21:43And lucky for him, it was non-fatal.
21:45And he survived it.
21:47It was a big news.
21:49We heard about it when it happened.
21:52We found it strange.
21:54And I found it strange because the shooter was strange.
21:58This guy's half running, looking for him, trying to shoot him.
22:04I said, that's how you do it.
22:07As somebody who covered this case, the mob gets it done on the first try.
22:13And this was a case where it was almost like a bunch of bumbling idiots trying to kill somebody, but always failing.
22:24It was so just unprofessional, you know, the whole thing, you know.
22:28I'll take you three times to go kill somebody.
22:30Takes you two minutes.
22:32You get up close and kill the guy.
22:34You know.
22:36Was it mistaken identity?
22:39I think it was.
22:40Yeah.
22:41100%.
22:42Do you think it's the real target here?
22:45That day?
22:46Yeah.
22:47Yes.
22:48Definitely.
22:51So when I look at this incident, you know, a lot of people say maybe it's mistaken identity, right?
22:57He gets out and the perpetrator comes up and starts shooting at him.
23:01Maybe he mistakes that it's his dad.
23:04I never really looked at it that way.
23:05The way I looked at it as is, hey, listen, they're going after Sally Daz.
23:09They can't get him.
23:10Right?
23:11What's the next thing likely to do?
23:13Let's go after a family.
23:14You know, like they want his business.
23:16They go after the kid too.
23:22What this attack showed law enforcement was that it wasn't just the elder Zetola.
23:32The entire family was under attack.
23:35And that begs the question, who wants this entire family dead?
23:42There are no leads.
23:45Cops aren't close to a suspect.
23:50And everybody is waiting for the next shoe to drop.
23:53I was a stringer, a freelance reporter for the New York Daily News.
24:08The guy that goes to the scene to cover a story in person.
24:12If it's a crime scene, talk to people, go to court, talk to the cops, things of that nature.
24:23So that day, the editor says, well, you might regret this, but I have an assignment for you.
24:28I'm working on a normal shift.
24:32Salvatore was done recovering.
24:34And we get the call that there's a homicide over at the McDonald's on Webster Avenue.
24:39It's a kind of busy corridor in West Bronx.
24:45Not a nice place, to be honest with you.
24:47Fire, medical.
24:48Hi, can you send me down the ambulance right now?
24:51Them guy got shot in the parking lot.
24:52Somebody got shot?
24:54Yes.
24:55Anybody know who shot him?
24:56No.
24:57The crime scene at McDonald's, and it was an Acura SUV, maroon-colored car, just next to the McDonald's.
25:05Takeout window.
25:07First breathing.
25:10Well, to be honest with you, I'm inside.
25:12I'm one of the managers of McDonald's, and I was taking an order when I see him to come and shot the guy.
25:17Okay.
25:19I don't know this man.
25:20I was about to give him the food when everything happened.
25:22Anybody got a description of the person?
25:25Do you know what he shot at?
25:26All we know is somebody, but we're just taking care of customers.
25:29Somebody just ran to the car and shot at him.
25:33While we're en route, they tell us right away that it's Sally Daz.
25:38And someone had shot and killed him in the drive-through at the McDonald's.
25:42So he's in the car?
25:44Yes, he's dead.
25:49As a department, we have the duty to protect our citizens.
25:53So when you turn around and you fail at it, yeah, you get emotional about it and you want to go out and find out who the murderer is.
26:03When we get there, I'm brought to the rear of the McDonald's.
26:06It appeared that the vehicle is pressed up against the building where the call box is.
26:12Mr. Zotola is slumped on the steering wheel.
26:15There's a fence around the McDonald's perimeter, and there's a big hole in the fence.
26:23And as I learned, the suspected killer at that time snuck into that hole.
26:29The victim, Zotola, is in his car, and he's driving up to the drive-in window, and he orders a coffee.
26:38And it's boxed in.
26:40It has a car in front of him, and it has a car behind him, so he can't move.
26:45That's kind of like a funnel, right?
26:46That we're always taught as police officers, don't drive through drive-throughs.
26:49Don't go through.
26:50Why?
26:51Because of bottlenecks.
26:52And now, all of a sudden, you're a target.
26:55And so the killer, when he gets close,
26:59he just fires the shots.
27:01And he hits him in the back and in the chest.
27:07We were shocked at that.
27:09You know, we were shocked.
27:10Why?
27:12I always thought they were gonna rob him.
27:13That's so we could shake him down and rob him.
27:15You know?
27:16And it just escalated to him getting killed.
27:19Got killed.
27:23First thing I noticed walking around the vehicle was the cluster of bullet holes in the side window.
27:32It was a very tight cluster.
27:34So the person who turned around and fired this weapon had a very tight grouping,
27:38which means he didn't just fire a weapon haphazardly into the vehicle hoping to strike.
27:44He fired that weapon and those bullets through that vehicle and struck him with precision.
27:49So that tells me, you know, that the shooter has used a firearm before,
27:55that he's proficient with it, and that he can stay on target even during a stressful situation like that.
28:04So I started asking myself, out of all these other attempts,
28:08I can see a level of professionalism has increased.
28:11And I kind of felt that this could be a different person from the last couple of attempts.
28:21One of the other detectives interviewed the 911 caller.
28:24He had a black hoodie hat.
28:26He looks young. He looks like a black kid.
28:28But she took cover and wasn't able to see his face, but he had retreated back up the hill.
28:33A few days later, I covered the funeral.
28:38The church was packed.
28:40There were, like, maybe at least 300 people in there, packed.
28:44And there was this beautiful photo of Zotola.
28:48And I'm just looking at him. Look at him.
28:50It's like, it's like my grandpa, you know? It could be my grandpa.
29:00Deborah and Sal Jr. and Anthony all gave touching eulogies about what this man meant to them and to this community.
29:12They were devastated at the news that they had lost the man that they were closest to in their lives.
29:20Debbie, the daughter, I remember her in tears.
29:24Anthony, too, had some very nice words about his father.
29:28He was like, you were a wise man. You were strong.
29:31And he was saying, you taught me everything in life.
29:35I need to make you proud.
29:36Like, I will do all I can not to disappoint the family.
29:41You know, my brother, my sister, especially you.
29:44It was very touching.
29:48There's something so mundane about all of this, right?
29:50You're just ordering a coffee.
29:52You're just like an average Joe ordering a coffee.
29:55And he loved to get his coffee there.
29:57And that was his last coffee.
30:00I don't believe in coincidences.
30:02So I started asking myself, okay, how do they know where he is?
30:06Are they following him?
30:09The vehicle ends up getting removed to really get processed.
30:15We go over the entire vehicle.
30:16They go from top to bottom.
30:18You know, from the front to the back.
30:20And one of the things that we end up coming up with is a tracker on the vehicle.
30:27A GPS device that is in the wheel well.
30:30It answers some questions like, wow, right?
30:33That's how they've been tracking them and that's how they got them here.
30:35So at this point, this is like the real big solid piece of evidence that we had that could possibly bring us, you know, to a perpetrator.
30:44I know how these things work and I know that this thing is talking to something.
30:50So it's going to be talking to a cell phone or to some other device that's going to be able to be tracked.
30:54We'd sent it to the lab and to get it broken down.
31:00So once we start receiving that information back, what do I do?
31:06Just like I have kids.
31:08Every time they get a new toy, they want to play with it.
31:10Usually the first thing that they'll do is they'll activate this device near their home.
31:18So I look at the first thing that's on that line of where it is.
31:22And that leads me to Topping Avenue in the Bronx.
31:26It's less than a half a mile from the crime scene at the McDonald's.
31:29So then I turn around and I start my video canvas.
31:34I go up and down Topping Avenue and I walk into this one building and I go and I start downloading video and reviewing video.
31:42And I see the GPS device being used.
31:46Looks like being tested by two males out in front of the address.
31:50And all my other attempts, their masks are hooded.
31:53But these guys are standing right out in plain view and I can see exactly who they are.
32:03These aren't your mafia type.
32:07At the same time, a Bloods member named Ron Caby, who was arrested in Manhattan a few months earlier for discarding that firearm, came forward and said to the police.
32:18I've been seeing all these headlines.
32:22I've been hearing all of this about the Zatola murder.
32:25I have information that you're going to want to know.
32:28He feels that he's going to be wrapped up in this whole thing and he wants to get ahead of it and he wants to cut a deal and give up who everybody is.
32:37He tells them that he was offered $10,000 from a Bloods associate to kill an older man.
32:46He was given intimate details about the person that he was going after from security codes to where surveillance cameras were located in the residences to routines, times of day that the victim might be home.
33:09And when he went to shoot and kill an elderly man, his gun jammed.
33:15Now the light bulbs are going off, okay?
33:22Now it's a murder for hire case.
33:24And the people who are outside using that GPS device, they're just hired hitmen.
33:30Who's going out and employing them?
33:32That's what I want to find out.
33:34But Ra KB does not know who the handler is.
33:38He doesn't know who the mastermind behind this whole thing is.
33:41He just knows that they were hired to kill Sylvester Zatola.
33:45But Ra KB tells us the names of the people using the GPS that was used to murder Sally Daz.
33:52That's Persone Shelton.
33:56And that's Hyman Ross.
34:01We're giving an opportunity to kind of explain what happened that day.
34:07Test money, what?
34:08Why don't you tell us?
34:09I don't have enough attention, man.
34:11I don't have enough attention, man.
34:16We established probable cause, and now we're turning around.
34:19We're arresting Persone Shelton at his residence in Brooklyn.
34:24We tend to imagine killers of mobsters as just looking the way the mobsters look.
34:30But Persone Shelton is just a regular guy from Brooklyn.
34:35Went to college in the Bronx.
34:37I remember looking at Shelton's LinkedIn page and I was thinking,
34:42oh, this is just like an average guy.
34:46When we do the search of his residence, we find a firearm,
34:49which is not part of our crime.
34:52But we also find cell phones.
34:55Sean Shelton's cell phone revealed text messages
35:00between he and somebody else
35:03speaking in movie terms and movie vernacular.
35:09For example, Shelton was referring to himself as the director.
35:15And shortly after the murder was done,
35:19he texted something to the effect of,
35:22the movie is shot or the movie is over.
35:25He's on cold words about the murder.
35:29And we start seeing all the messages that were going back and forth
35:34to an unknown number.
35:36So that phone number is now submitted.
35:39Now they're going to find out in the subscriber information
35:42on who owns that phone.
35:43And when I get that phone call,
35:46it was probably one of the best phone calls I've ever gotten in my life.
35:52It was the wow moment of this entire case,
35:56and probably in my career as well,
35:58to find out that his own son, Anthony Zatolo,
36:01organized the murder of his father.
36:03I was like, wait, Anthony?
36:07The guy's son was grieving at the funeral?
36:13And just thought, like, who knew?
36:15I think anybody covering this case knew that there was a part of this
36:21that was an inside job of some sort.
36:24Can he go inside? Is that okay?
36:26Everything started making sense.
36:34I mean, he knew where his father was all the time.
36:38He knew that there was video cameras inside the residence.
36:42He knew the code to get into the back of his house and through his kitchen.
36:46He knew all of that.
36:48It's very, very rare that organized crime
36:52will bring in somebody from the outside,
36:54somebody from a street gang to do their dirty work.
37:00That looks like the car was here.
37:03But Anthony had to go outside of their circle.
37:07Bouchon Shelton, he's the guy, or the subcontractor,
37:11where you go to and you say, I need this, this, and this,
37:14and then he finds the people to do the job,
37:17and who knew how to pull off violent attacks.
37:18One thing I can say is, I had a feeling you were coming.
37:22When, I don't know, but I can tell you that it was after Father's Day,
37:26and it was after all my kids' records.
37:28Anthony was arrested the day after Father's Day for his own father's murder.
37:39He doesn't have remorse, and that was the shocking throughout this entire ordeal.
37:49Anthony played the loving son while he was pulling all the strings.
37:56I don't know for certain, but I'm not sure that Anthony has a soul.
38:01So detectives are thinking, what's the motive here?
38:07Once we make the arrest, we look into Anthony Zatolo.
38:12Sally Dad had multiple businesses, from real estate to also joker poker machines.
38:19Anthony was running the real estate arm of this business.
38:24But the eldest son, Salvatore, was running the joker poker portion of this business.
38:30And worked more closely with the mob associates and the folks within social clubs.
38:39I think this was a case of Anthony wiping out his brother and his father.
38:46Wanting dad's money, wanting the brother's money,
38:50as the only way to ascend in the family and become the guy.
38:56The only motive that is clear as day is the motive of greed.
39:05Sally.
39:07Just a good guy, man.
39:09We would take it back.
39:11Our world usually doesn't happen over money.
39:13You respect your father, you're gonna kill him, or your brother.
39:15But you've got to be out of your mind to do something like that.
39:32Sean Shelton tells the U.S. Attorney Hyman Ross is the guy that was a shooter.
39:36Prosecutors said Hyman Ross was a violent member of the Blood Street Gang with a felony record.
39:43I mean, he was definitely someone capable of pulling off a targeted killing in a drive-through.
39:50It took them over a year, really, to succeed because of the different kinds of choices,
39:55as you can see it, then ages and years.
39:57I was just hungry and they're so hungry.
39:59It was a budget-to-culture that I thought was a tough thing.
40:01You do wanna buy food and I know it's a good thing.
40:03They're a good thing.
40:05After all, it was a poor thing.
40:07It took them over a year, really, to succeed.
40:08It took them over a year, really, to succeed because of the different players that they
40:20had involved.
40:21And that's also what kind of threw us off during the case.
40:25You went from guys who really had no experience trying to carry this out to, at the end, more
40:31experienced guys that were able to get the job done.
40:35I think the most bothersome part about this case is that the elder Zetola did everything
40:43for his children, and yet it wasn't enough for Anthony.
40:51Anthony was still interacting with his father at birthdays, at family events, making money
40:58off of his father, meantime secretly plotting his demise.
41:06Unfortunately I think it's the definition of psychopath.
41:09A house looked like something that a mad scientist would live in.
41:16And he said it.
41:17Who said it?
41:18The mastermind, to me, he was arrogant, a fraudster, a sociopath.
41:25For $40,000, Dennis lost his life.
41:30That's it.
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