Christopher Porco: Axe Killer | Season 2 Premiere

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Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime
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Jennings here, it's season three.
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can't. I cannot even it is
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me you I would have made it
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I have some great stuff prepared.
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never even imagine if possible, and
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It flat out could not. And
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That's the choir director. But she's
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hope she didn't hear that. But
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so I'm getting there, all right. So how about before I started

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today's episode, I've got some shout
outs to do. I have some new

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people in my Vigilante gang member and
crime family group, and so I want

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to tell him. Hey, so
miss Karen Carrie, what is up?

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Thank you so much for joining?
Karen, I gotta ask you. You

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better message me. What's it like
in today's time being named Karen. Everybody

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is calling people Karen's and you are
a Karen, but you're like an unspeakable

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Karen. You know what I'm saying. You're not one of those Karen's because

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I'm happy to have you, so, thank you so much for joining.

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I've got Haley Ballard. Hey,
Haley, thank you for joining. And

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I'm wondering are you related to the
Ballards and Livingston Parish because there's a bunch

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of them. Are you from Livingston
Parish? We have to go look it

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up. But hey, I see
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so excited. Thank you so much
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Taylor and Michelle, I don't have
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you're from Mississippi. I think that's
what I saw when I was looking through

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the name. So, hey girl, how you doing. Michelle, I've

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got Christine Hernandez. Hey, Christine, you tell everybody you join the Unspeakable

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happy to talk with you and see
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I could give my opinion on.
I know I recently had someone reach out

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that said, Kelly, Hey,
I really would like to hear your opinion

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on the Casey Anthony case. I
know it's older, but I would love

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to hear your opinion. I'm doing
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story about my husband and Casey Anthony
done dune, duh, when I do

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that episode, y'all gonna like it. It's funny. Miss Kristen Hughes,

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Hey, look at all the ladies
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glad this is so much fun.
And then, last, but certainly not

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least, Mallorie Rue Hey, Mallory, listen. I actually know Mallory personally.

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We grew up together. She was
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a field in between us, but
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I remember her daddy worked at a
hardware store and she had a little brother,

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and we just had a lot of
good times growing up together. So

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the fact that you're supporting me,
Mallory, means so very much because it's

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again personal. I know you personally, and thank you so much. Mallory.

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Please tell your brother I said hello, Tell your dad and your mom

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I said hi, And share right, share, and let everybody know that

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you're on the team now. So
that casey Anthony request, by the way,

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was a Leslie Cochrane. That's who
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miss Leslie, hey, I'm listening, girl, and I'm going to write

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you the most bang up episode.
So you just hang tight and it's coming.

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I promise, okay, and I'm
not going to break my promise.

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So today's episode is going to be
the Peter Porco case. Now, this

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is not necessarily a newer crime.
This is one that happened back in the

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gap, right um, around two
thousand and four. But this one's got

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creep factor one thousand, right,
speaking a creep factor. Hold hold the

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phone. Okay, I hope you
don't have kids in the car. If

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you do, they got to grow
up sometime, they can hear. I

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don't care. Okay, No,
I'm recording this right after Easter. Okay,

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I have to tell you the weirdest
trap always happens in my family.

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So my um, we went out
to my cousin's house and my aunt's house

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for Easter, and we had a
crawfish boil, and you know, she

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lives on a farm and she raises
horses and it's just a good time.

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She has a donkey, she calls
it her little jackass, and you know,

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cows and whatnot. So we're having
a good old time. Well,

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as the evening progressed, it was
a good Friday. My cousin, her

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name is Brent. Hey, Brent, I love you. Cousin. She's

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so smart and beautiful and she just
has got it going on. She's about

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five foot nothing and just a cowgirl
at heart, you know. But anyway,

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she said, hey, you want
to come by the house and come

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check out my new pig. She
actually got this pig. I love animals,

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and it's a popularly pig named Pickle. And I said, oh,

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hell yeah, I want to go
see your Pickle. So we jump in

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the car and we drive over.
So I jump out of the car.

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I'm immediately accosted by a peacock.
She has a peacock too. A matter

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of fact, guess what, I'll
post a picture. I'm gonna make a

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note real quick. I'm accosted by
this peacock and that's exciting to me.

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And then pick Hole comes winking up
right, I'm a hey, bag guy,

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how are you doing? Pig all? And so I'm leaving on the

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pig and we're just having a good
time, and then she goes, I

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crap you not, hey, I
gotta castrate my cat real quick. What

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She's like, Yeah, I've got
this cat. He's in the house and

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I've got a castrating real quick.
And I said, I want to watch

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she said, okay, come on, so why not why don't we just

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castrate a cat on Easter? So
me, my kids, my husband,

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my sister, her family, we
all go upstairs because my cousin's house is

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really cool and upstairs of her it's
like a barn dominium house. It's really

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neat. But upstairs she actually has
her own vet. She's a vet near

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you know, she's a vet.
She has a clinic in her upstairs of

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her home and an entire lab.
Okay, it's freaking cool. So we

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go in her lab. She puts
the cat under anesthesia, and then as

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a family, we crowded around the
swirly chair the cat was laying on and

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we emasculated him. We pulled his
little balls off, and she's would we

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have had a castrated cat? I
have pictures because it was so freaking weird,

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So go check out the facebook.
I'm going to post pictures. It

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was my first and last cat Fixon, but it was interesting, so if

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you want to go see it,
go check it out. It was It

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was crazy. All right, here
we go, Peter Porco case, all

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right, this is gonna be out
of Delmar, New York. And like

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I said, this one is super
freaking creepy. So we have a family

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of four. Peter and Joan,
they are the parents, okay, and

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they are very good people according to
everybody's you know, description of them.

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And they had two sons named Christopher
and Jonathan. So there's this beautiful family

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of four. Dad worked as a
court clerk for an appeals judge at the

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Supreme Court of New York State,
so he's a pretty successful fellow. Joan,

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who was the mom, was a
speech pathologist, and they both made

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a really solid living and we're just
living the good life, you know.

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They had a nice home and a
beautiful family dynamic. Their sons turned out

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to be good guys. Jonathan was
the oldest and Christopher obviously was the youngest.

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So this case is going to be
on November fifteenth, two thousand and

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four. That's when it all starts. I was a sophomore in college when

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that happened. So Peter is fifty
two years old and he does not show

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for work, and so that was
really weird. His coworkers knew that he

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was always prompt on time, he
did his job. He was not someone

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who would not show. It was
extremely odd and out of the norm and

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so something else that was kind of
strange about it was that he was really

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near retirement. So this fella had
put the time in. He was ready

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to like, you know, kick
up his feet and you know, drink

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of my tie and go to the
beach and do whatever it is that retired

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people do. I wouldn't know about
that. I'm working my ass off right

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now. But in due time.
So, being the good people that they

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are, they sent a court officer
to the home to say, hey,

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go check on Peter. It's weird
that he didn't show up for work.

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Now. When the officer arrived at
the home, there was a key in

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the door lock, but the door
was kind of a jar. It was

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pushed open, and he could see
that there were drops of blood on the

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doorstep. So rut Row right,
he knew something was wrong. So he

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steps inside and he sees Peter Porco's
body and this guy has been bludgeoned to

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death. This is not like someone
got hit over the head and fell and

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was killed. He literally described it
as a blood bath. Blood was everywhere

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everywhere. I have crime scene photos
I'm gonna put up for you on Facebook

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when this drops. But everywhere y'all. I mean blood all around on the

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walls, all over the floor,
countertop, sinks everywhere, and so there's

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just literal shock and horror by this
officer that responded to the scene. So

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he calls responders, right, he
calls number one help. Oh my god,

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he's dead. There's blood everywhere.
When they get there, they go

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running upstairs because there's white you know, lives with them, and they find

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Joan in the bed, bludgeoned like, cannot make out her face. She

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is beat so badly. Now,
amazingly, they think she's dead because they

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can't find her face, but she's
alive. They take her pulse and she

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is alive. So they are dumbfounded
by this. How could she possibly be

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alive? Well, based on the
wounds that were both of them had had

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received, they determined that they had
been attacked with a large blade, And

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by large blade, I mean a
three foot axe, an axe laying in

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the bed next to her, an
axe literally axe murderer. You know what

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I'm saying, Holy crap, Do
you know what it takes to swing an

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axe? And I know right now
some burly man's like not much. Okay,

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Well take it down to you know, five ft four healthy woman.

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Okay, swinging an axe once or
twice as hard as you can, you

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know, and then let's up that
to like thirty times. Wow, the

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effort put forward to hack these people
up. The wounds were devastating. Jon's

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wounds obviously were extensive, but she
had them on her body, her arms,

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and a lot of them to her
face. Her brain was literally exposed.

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The responders could see her brain while
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how was she even alive? So
they jumped into save her. But like

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I said, the extension was boom
jim. So the responders jump in to

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save her. But like I said, the damage was very extensive. And

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when the responders literally went to go
put that airway mask on her, they

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couldn't find her airway. They couldn't
tell. It was like mints to meet,

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They couldn't tell. So they just
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an airway over her and keep her
alive. They rushed her to the hospital

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and they found that she was st
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directly to the face. Now she
was barely clinging to life, but she

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was still alive all right. So
back at the house, the investigators could

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not figure out why Peter was downstairs, but blood was everywhere, Like I

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told you, I mean in the
bathroom, in the kitchen, everywhere.

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And Jones up in the bed with
her brain hanging out. How could this

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blood be everywhere? Are you ready
for this? Hold onto your butt,

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crack. This is what nightmares are
made of. Okay, they should make

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a They should make a horror movie
about this. Peter had sustained sixteen sixteen

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major axe wounds to his face and
head, including a penetration to his brain.

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He was hurt so badly part of
his jaw fell off during the attack.

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Can you fathom what I'm telling you
here? And please don't think that

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I'm just trying to be grandiose about
how gross this is. No understand what

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these people went through? Oh my
god. Okay, Now, despite beating

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mortally wounded, with his brain out
and his jaw off, he woke up

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sometime after the original attack. If
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amazing the body is, this is
probably one of them. He woke up.

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Not only did he wake up,
but he managed to get out of

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bed and go about his daily routine
before he finally collapsed. And died,

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y'all like a zombie. His body
got up and he went about his morning

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routine. So what exactly do I
mean by he went about his morning routine?

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Here are the things that he did. He spent some time in the

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bathroom at the sink, and they
know because by the crime scene photos which

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I will post trigger warning. Okay, it's court true crime show. If

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you are hey, if you're easily
offended, then I'm not your girl,

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right, don't forget that, but
I'm gonna post those pictures for you.

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But he was at the bathroom sink, but there's just blood pouring out of

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him. He then loaded the dishwasher. I got to insert something real quick.

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This is a shout out to my
teenage daughter. Honey. If Peter

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Porco can load the dishwasher with his
brain exposed and his jaw falling off,

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baby girl, you can do it
too. I have faith in you.

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Quit tell me your life's hard hashtag
be like Peter. The dude was still

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you know, joan shout out to
you girl. This is kind of morbid,

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but you must have had him trained
well, because that man went and

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straight up loaded the dishwasher before he
died and kudos to you man, all

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right, He loaded the dishwasher,
he packed his lunch, He packed his

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lunch, he made food, He
even wrote a check to someone. Think

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that through. This man is walking
through the house on autopilot, doing these

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things, all the while mortally wounded
and dying. Even creepier, at one

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point, he went outside to get
his morning newspaper like he did every day,

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and while bleeding to death, accidentally
locked himself out. He even got

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his spare key that was hidden in
a flower pot on the porch and let

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himself back in, and that is
where he finally collapsed and died on the

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front door. Stoop there. Can
you imagine what that scene looked like?

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So, I mean, how was
my question? I don't know about you,

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but how like, how can you
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I am like devastated For the next
thirty minutes, that was hurt. This

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dude's take an axe, sixteen acts
strikes to the face and head, and

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he's able to do all of those
things. So I did a little bit

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more research on this. So how
in the hell was he able to complete

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all of this? Well, based
on the coroner's report, while most of

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Peter's brain was nearly destroyed by these
acts wounds. The top portion of the

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brain is known as the neocortex,
and in the neocortex that's where they're going

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to house things like thought and language
and reasoning. Right, well, that

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was destroyed. But his paleocortex,
which is underneath that level, that's going

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to house things like your primal instincts
and your second nature habits, including his

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routine, and that was still intact. That's why he didn't know what was

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going on. But these autopilot things
that he did every day, His body

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just went into that routine and started
doing it until he finally just bled out.

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He literally had no concept of the
fact that he was mortally wounded during

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all of this. That's in now
when the investigators are looking through the home

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trying to figure out motive here.
Everything was there and I'm not going to

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say these people were filthy rich,
but they had money, they had nice

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things. So the fact that nothing
was taken told investigators from the get go,

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look, robbery was clearly not a
motive. Okay, if there was

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money, there was things that someone
could have taken, they didn't do that.

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But the massive number of wounds to
Peter versus Joan did tell investigator something

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that would mean that, hey,
he was the intended target of the attack.

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I would be willing to bet you
know, Jane's wounds were simply just

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to you know, make sure that
she did not interfere. She got three,

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he got sixteen. He was the
main target. So back at the

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hospital, amazingly, Joan is still
alive, but they're going to rush her

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back for emergency surgery to try to
save her life. And so right before

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they wheel her back, and astute
detective said, you know, let me

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let me ask her a few questions. I need to ask her a few

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things while she's being rolled back for
surgery. They didn't even know she would

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survive, right, So these are
the things he wanted to ask before she

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went back. Because she could still
shake her head yes or no. She

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didn't have a face, but she
could move her face up and down yes

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and no left right, you know, up down, left, right,

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So he asked these specific questions.
He asked four of them. Can you

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hear me? She clearly nodded her
head up and down in the yes fashion.

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He then said, do you know
who attacked you? She shook her

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head up and down in the yes
motion. Now these next two questions,

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you might be like, why would
he as that? Okay, come on,

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guys, you've been listening to true
crime a long time. I'm not

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your first radio here. Who is
most likely to hurt you? Who?

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It's going to be people that are
close to you and people that you have

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pissed off in some fashion, right, because who cares enough to kill somebody

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unless you're tight with them and they
they're gonna have something to gain out of

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it, whether it's just vengeance or
money or whatever it could be. So

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Peter's dead husband's out of the picture. Who's left the two sons? So

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he asks her specifically, did your
oldest son Jonathan do this? She shook

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her head no, very clearly.
The last question, did Christopher do this

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to you? She shook her head
yes. Holy cow. She implicates her

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own son as her attempted killer and
the murderer of her husband. So let's

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talk about Chris though, Okay,
so what do we what do we know

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about Christopher? All Right? He
was twenty one years old and he was

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a college student at the University of
Rochester, which was a three hour drive

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away from their home. Now,
people who were asked did say that he

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was a bit of a brat,
all right, and that during this year

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of two thousand four he had been
having troubles and his parents kind of had

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enough of it and they had called
him out on it, all right,

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But that doesn't make you a murderer. That makes you a son whose parents

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are disappointed in how you're behaving their
oldest son, Jonathan Porco, he was

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twenty three years old at the time. Now, this guy was a lieutenant

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on a nuclear submarine at the time, and they verified he was hundreds of

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miles away on a submarine. He
couldn't have done this. It's not even

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plausible. And people knew saw him
on the you know, on the submarine.

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Now, Christopher's alibi was that I
was at college, I was three

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hours away, I'm on camera.
I didn't do it. You know,

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There's no way. Well that's plausible, right. So something you have to

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think about, okay, is as
an investigator, not only are you trying

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to prove who did this, but
you're going to have to also sit back

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and think, Okay, everything that
I'm trying to prove, can it be

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either disproven in court or could it
be manipulated in court? Somehow to where

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there would be like this reasonable doubt
that a jury may not believe or understand

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what I'm you know, proposing as
fact or what happened. So I wanted

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to point this out to you while
we're going through the case. You know,

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let's think about court for a second. Brain damage could be argued as

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a cause for a for a false
accusation, right, So think about it.

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You're in court, you're a jury
member, and you're listening to this

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case, and the you know,
the investigators are saying, yes, she

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had massive head trauma, brain trauma. They were trying to save her life.

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She didn't even have a face,
but she was able to tell us

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that her son did this and shake
her head. Yes. All the defense

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has to do is come back and
repeat the exact same thing, y'all.

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She had massive brain trauma. She
didn't even have a face, She wasn't

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able to think clearly, she was
under extrem dress and the brain damage made

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it to where maybe her son,
Christopher is the only person she could think

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of. Maybe she was shaking her
head, yes, Christopher is my son.

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How can you as a jury sit
here and believe because she shook her

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head yes, with her brain exposed
that that is perfection and honesty and truth

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when she had severe brain damage.
You get my point. So while she's

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the one who said he did it, and it's his mother, I don't

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know, they might have put that
reasonable doubt in there. So they explored

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some other theories. Okay, because
motive matters when you're trying to solve a

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case. If you can't prove motive, or you can't at least allude to

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a reason of why someone would do
it, it makes it less plausible.

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Right Even as parents we look at
our kids and go, why would you

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do that? We want to know
why. There's got to be a motive

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behind it. All right, Well, here are some of the things that

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they investigated. This guy kind of
deep, Okay, Peter Poor Remember he

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works at the at the courthouse.
He had received a death threat right before

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his actual death from a disgruntled father
who had lost custody of his kids,

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and that man, to God and
anyone else who would listen, vowed revenge.

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He was pissed. Okay, that
man told everybody with no holds bar

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He told everybody, I'm going to
get a gun and I'm gonna go kill

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that judge, and I'm gonna kill
Peter Porco. He said it to everybody.

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He admitted he said it. But
when they did some further investigation,

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they were able to eliminate him because
the alibi was solid. It was it

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was absolute solid. Now, I
don't know about you, but when I

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used to hear the word alibi,
alibi to me used to mean when I

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was younger, like the lie you
chose to explain where you were what you

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were doing. Alibi is not a
lie. Alibi is just simply the explanation

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or the story of where you say
you were. So don't confuse the two.

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Alibi is not a lie. Alibi
is the explanation. So his alibi

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panned out. They were able to
verify one hundred percent that he could not

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have been the one who did it. Now about that time, amazingly,

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the supposed killer writes a letter to
the newspaper. He's going to be published,

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okay, And this is what he
says in that letter, And I

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quote Peter Porko wasn't even a challenge. Once I got inside, I repeatedly

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hit him in the head and neck
with a small axe I brought with me.

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I ignored all of his pleading screams, also, I beat Joan Porko,

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but unfortunately she survived all right.
So he took credit for what had

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happened, and he gave details that
the killer would know. But the writer

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who wrote the letter also took credit
for a local murderer, another one that

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had just happened, and he ended
that letter with, if you want to

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find me, you might want to
stop going after easy suspects. Show me

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the respect I deserve. Catch me
if you can. What a what a

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pompous person to write a letter to
the media, right, catch me if

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you can. So they did everything
they're supposed to do. They checked for

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fingerprints on the letter and DNA and
anything they could, but it was an

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absolute dead end. They didn't get
anything from that letter. So we've got

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a guy who says he wants to
kill them that doesn't pan out. They've

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got the supposed killer writing a letter
and explaining what happened, but no DNA

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to follow up one. Now even
crazier. Okay, where are my mob

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people at? Are y'all out there? The people who liked the mob,

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or maybe don't like the mob but
are intrigued by the mob. Right,

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I've always thought the mob was cool, and I know I'm not supposed to

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say that because the mob isn't necessarily
good. Guys become a one who doesn't

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love a good mob hit story in
the movies, come one, all right,

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check this out. Peter Porco was
related to organized crime member Frankie Porco.

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Now, Frankie has known as Frankie
quote unquote the Fireman Porko. He

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00:29:15.920 --> 00:29:19.240
was his great uncle and at the
time, Peter Porko was serving time in

408
00:29:19.319 --> 00:29:23.559
federal prison for loan sharking. All
right, tell me that didn't have a

409
00:29:23.599 --> 00:29:29.319
little mobesque, you know feel to
it. Now? What was the rumor

410
00:29:29.839 --> 00:29:36.680
was that Uncle Porco Frankie was going
to be turning state's evidence and would testify

411
00:29:36.920 --> 00:29:42.680
in another case for time off of
his sentence. Okay. Now, even

412
00:29:44.079 --> 00:29:48.119
more interesting to this was that it
was playing into the fact that the fireman's

413
00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:52.880
axe was found next to the body
of Joan Porco and it was an absolute

414
00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:56.720
look of a mark of a marking
of a mob hit. Right, I'm

415
00:29:56.759 --> 00:30:02.680
mad, I'm the fireman made I
put out a hit on my nephew,

416
00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:07.400
and then we're gonna leave my fireman
axe kind of as my signature. You

417
00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:11.440
know on scene, but here was
the kicker on that. It didn't make

418
00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:17.359
sense because Frankie was actually in prison
for not being a snitch. He was

419
00:30:17.440 --> 00:30:21.440
offered a deal before he was sent
to prison for his loan sharking, and

420
00:30:21.599 --> 00:30:23.400
he turned it down. He wouldn't
take it. He's a freaking true,

421
00:30:23.559 --> 00:30:26.640
true time mobster. He wouldn't want
to take the deal, right, and

422
00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:30.559
he wouldn't. He manned up and
did his time so that it just wasn't

423
00:30:30.920 --> 00:30:37.720
It wasn't panning out. But I
did go a little further into Frankie Porko,

424
00:30:37.880 --> 00:30:40.240
and I spent way too much time. I'm not proud of myself,

425
00:30:40.240 --> 00:30:45.079
but I went down a rabbit hole
of like mobsters and racketeering and murdering the

426
00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:49.200
Bronx and even found a story where
a horse head like a horse, like

427
00:30:49.319 --> 00:30:53.839
hey, like a real horse.
His head was found in a councilwoman's pool.

428
00:30:55.440 --> 00:30:57.920
She went outside and the horse's head
was in the pool. Like let's

429
00:30:57.920 --> 00:31:02.480
just say, like shit too deep
for me to add to this episode,

430
00:31:02.839 --> 00:31:06.720
but it was a legitimate story for
them to go like check and dive into

431
00:31:07.319 --> 00:31:10.799
lot have mercy. Okay, but
again it just didn't pan out. That

432
00:31:10.920 --> 00:31:15.279
was some other mob shit going on
at that time. So, like I

433
00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:18.000
said, long story short, it
was not considered a mob hit after they

434
00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:21.920
did, you know, all their
research on it, even though there were

435
00:31:21.920 --> 00:31:30.359
a few mumbles of the fact that
Peter Porco was supposed to be roughed up

436
00:31:30.400 --> 00:31:37.160
and assaulted over a dealing that he
had over some video poker machines with his

437
00:31:37.319 --> 00:31:40.000
uncle, so that kind of like, you know, that really sparked my

438
00:31:40.039 --> 00:31:44.160
interests. But again it just it
didn't pan out when it was all said

439
00:31:44.200 --> 00:31:47.000
and done. They wanted to rough
him up, Okay, So there was

440
00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:51.400
that mob tie ish stuff, but
it just didn't They could not find any

441
00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:53.720
links to that. But again,
if I was a defense attorney, I

442
00:31:53.920 --> 00:31:59.200
Shelly would be bringing up the mob, wouldn't you. The mob did it.

443
00:32:00.759 --> 00:32:04.000
So the police say, well,
maybe we should take a little bit

444
00:32:04.079 --> 00:32:07.079
more of a reasonable step. Right
now, let's look at the sun who

445
00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:13.039
she did identify before she went back
for surgery as her attempted killer. So

446
00:32:13.160 --> 00:32:15.599
they did what you would anyone would
do, is they went to go look

447
00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:17.440
at security cameras. Right if he
was in the college, and he was

448
00:32:17.839 --> 00:32:21.000
where he says he was, he
was supposed to be, which is what

449
00:32:21.079 --> 00:32:22.720
he said he was in his dorm, then let's go check the cameras.

450
00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:30.079
The cameras don't lie, and during
the time of the murder they got the

451
00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:32.400
video from the dorm, but they
also said, well, we're going to

452
00:32:32.440 --> 00:32:36.759
look at the cameras from not only
the security footage, but we're gonna look

453
00:32:36.799 --> 00:32:42.799
at major highways and all toll booths
between the school and the Porco home.

454
00:32:43.400 --> 00:32:47.519
That's a genius, right, because
any defense attorney could say, well,

455
00:32:49.079 --> 00:32:52.200
you know, if you saw his
car, he wasn't driving it, or

456
00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:55.839
you know, they're always going to
bring up some type of explanation. And

457
00:32:55.880 --> 00:33:00.240
by the way, I'm I'm not
down and being bad on the defense attorne.

458
00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:04.720
That's your job, right, I'm
just trying to give you a full

459
00:33:04.799 --> 00:33:07.799
rounded view, right of how this
could go. So if you want to

460
00:33:07.839 --> 00:33:13.240
know, statistically, the average person
is videotaped eighteen to twenty five times a

461
00:33:13.359 --> 00:33:15.079
day. If you go to Walmart, if you go to an ATM machine,

462
00:33:15.359 --> 00:33:19.599
if you go get a snowball,
right, if you get on and

463
00:33:19.640 --> 00:33:22.799
off the interstate exits, there's there's
you know, license plate readers, and

464
00:33:22.880 --> 00:33:29.720
there's traffic cameras. You're gonna be
on camera. Well, as luck would

465
00:33:29.759 --> 00:33:32.960
have it, at ten thirty pm
the night of the murder, they see

466
00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:38.880
a yellow jeep leave the university campus. Now I know what you're thinking,

467
00:33:39.599 --> 00:33:43.359
Oh my god, does Christopher drive
a yellow jeep? Well, yes,

468
00:33:43.599 --> 00:33:46.680
good job, detective, he did. Okay, he had a yellow jeep.

469
00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:52.000
So in November fifteenth, two thousand
and four, someone also, when

470
00:33:52.359 --> 00:33:58.759
the murder occurred, use the Porco
family's secret code to disable the security system

471
00:33:59.160 --> 00:34:07.960
at their home. Only the family
knew this code. So amazingly, that

472
00:34:07.119 --> 00:34:13.400
code was used at two fourteen am, which was exactly within the wheelhouse of

473
00:34:13.599 --> 00:34:20.440
three hours after that yellow jeep left
campus. Now, if you're doing your

474
00:34:20.440 --> 00:34:23.840
mouth, you're going, Kelly,
that's one thirty Okay, that's what I'm

475
00:34:23.840 --> 00:34:29.760
just saying. It's within the timeframe. Okay. A couple hours later,

476
00:34:29.880 --> 00:34:34.119
the telephone line at the Porco home
was cut at four fifty nine am,

477
00:34:35.559 --> 00:34:42.800
and then that same yellow jeep returned
to the campus at eight thirty am,

478
00:34:42.800 --> 00:34:46.920
three hours later. That's what we
in the biz call a freaking clue.

479
00:34:47.639 --> 00:34:54.559
Something is up with the yellow gee. Now, the timeline was perfect to

480
00:34:54.599 --> 00:34:59.199
have committed the murder. But here's
the other issue. Investigators are going to

481
00:34:59.280 --> 00:35:04.639
face the there's thousands of yellow jeeps
in New York City or in New York.

482
00:35:05.679 --> 00:35:08.199
You've got to prove it was Christopher's. You know, you ever bought

483
00:35:08.199 --> 00:35:10.159
a car. Maybe I'm the only
one, but you ever bought a car,

484
00:35:10.159 --> 00:35:12.880
and you're like, dang, look
at my car. It doesn't look

485
00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:15.119
like anybody else's. Wow. And
then the second you buy that dang thing,

486
00:35:15.639 --> 00:35:20.320
you see them everywhere, Like Gemothy, I want to call you out,

487
00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:24.239
Jemothy, producer. Jemothy drives a
yellow hummer, a big old yellow

488
00:35:24.280 --> 00:35:29.599
hummer. So any yellow hummer I
see in the next twenty mile area,

489
00:35:29.679 --> 00:35:31.440
I'm honking and waving like a moron. Well, guess what I found out.

490
00:35:32.039 --> 00:35:35.760
He ain't the only one. He
is not the only one with that

491
00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:37.960
big, gass, bright yellow hummer
rolling around town. I could not believe

492
00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:40.920
there's more than one, but there
are, because I've been waving like an

493
00:35:40.960 --> 00:35:45.639
idiot at the wrong one. So
shout out to whoever you are. If

494
00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:49.840
you're listening, Hey, that's me
saying hey to you every other day.

495
00:35:51.559 --> 00:35:55.400
They have to prove that this was
Christopher's. So they zoomed in and they

496
00:35:55.480 --> 00:35:59.960
found on these videos that there were
certain aspects to the vehicle that made it,

497
00:36:00.039 --> 00:36:04.079
you know, identifiable. So let
me back up real quick. I

498
00:36:04.119 --> 00:36:06.440
don't know if you know this,
but we all know that you can get

499
00:36:06.480 --> 00:36:08.199
shoeprints at a scene. Right,
So, the bad guy steps in the

500
00:36:08.280 --> 00:36:13.079
mud, steps in the blood,
whatever, Well, it's not that actual

501
00:36:13.159 --> 00:36:20.239
shoeprint that makes the case. They
have what are called accidental markings. And

502
00:36:20.239 --> 00:36:23.159
that's literally what they call it,
and so on the bottoms of your shoes,

503
00:36:23.440 --> 00:36:27.679
from the way that your foot lays
down, if you know, pronate

504
00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:30.880
your foot, or let's say you
have a rock in your shoe or you

505
00:36:30.039 --> 00:36:35.920
chipped it or something like that,
it makes your shoe an absolute individual shoe.

506
00:36:36.039 --> 00:36:37.239
After you've worn it for a while, no one's gonna have the exact

507
00:36:37.320 --> 00:36:43.360
same shoe. It's like a fingerprint
basically. Well, the same concept can

508
00:36:43.400 --> 00:36:47.519
be applied to a vehicle. So
while everyone may have Jimothy's yellow Hummer,

509
00:36:49.119 --> 00:36:54.039
not everyone has the unspeakable a True
Crime by Kelly Jennings sticker on the back

510
00:36:54.440 --> 00:37:00.599
of their yellow Hummer, right so, or the real life of real crime

511
00:37:00.679 --> 00:37:06.519
daily shameless block. Right, Not
everybody's going to have the same stickers or

512
00:37:06.559 --> 00:37:08.320
the same thing hanging in the window, and so those become really important.

513
00:37:08.519 --> 00:37:12.239
Well, what did they see when
they zoomed in? There was a mud

514
00:37:12.280 --> 00:37:16.480
pattern splattered on the door, the
window, one of the windows had a

515
00:37:16.519 --> 00:37:22.920
torn sticker, a torn sticker on
the door, and there was a political

516
00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:27.960
sticker on the back window. So
it was extremely identifiable that this is so

517
00:37:28.159 --> 00:37:34.719
and So's jeep. Now, all
of these items showed up on the images

518
00:37:35.280 --> 00:37:37.440
that they pulled of this yellow jeep
going back and forth. It was the

519
00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:43.119
jeep. Now the problem with that
becomes okay, but we could not see

520
00:37:43.360 --> 00:37:47.239
who's driving the jeep. Now sounds
far fetched, but again you could insert

521
00:37:47.320 --> 00:37:52.159
some doubt there. Well, maybe
his brother was setting him up. Maybe

522
00:37:52.159 --> 00:37:54.800
not his brother, but maybe someone
else was setting him up. You know,

523
00:37:54.800 --> 00:37:59.079
it's the mob. They could have
ties to steal the jeep while Christopher

524
00:37:59.119 --> 00:38:02.079
was sleeping, right, and then
whatever come up with this possibility of what

525
00:38:02.079 --> 00:38:07.800
could have happened. So what we
know is that basically, while Peter and

526
00:38:07.880 --> 00:38:09.760
Joan were asleep in their bed,
they both were attacked with the axe.

527
00:38:10.239 --> 00:38:14.599
Joan laid in the bed for you
know, a couple hours after the attack,

528
00:38:14.719 --> 00:38:17.760
severely injured, unable to get up
amazingly, y'all. She does survive

529
00:38:17.800 --> 00:38:22.360
the attack, the surgery and everything. They could not believe it, but

530
00:38:22.440 --> 00:38:28.159
she wakes up too a few weeks
later. She did lose an eye and

531
00:38:28.320 --> 00:38:35.159
part of her skull and her face
was severely disfigured in this attack. And

532
00:38:35.199 --> 00:38:37.960
like I said, I will post
pictures on my on my Facebook if you

533
00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:43.199
want to go look at them of
kind of her before and after. Now,

534
00:38:43.920 --> 00:38:46.960
when the police were doing the investigation, they found this was not a

535
00:38:47.039 --> 00:38:51.920
random axe either. This was an
axe that they were able to tell belonged

536
00:38:52.039 --> 00:38:54.320
to the family. Don't ask me
how I in my research, I couldn't

537
00:38:54.360 --> 00:38:58.320
really figure out if they just knew
from like photos that it had been you

538
00:38:58.360 --> 00:39:00.159
know, used or something along those, but they were able to verify.

539
00:39:00.239 --> 00:39:06.719
Hey, yeah, this is their
acts. Now. Christopher Bowdish, he

540
00:39:06.880 --> 00:39:10.840
is a Bethlehem police detective, and
he stated that a medical person as medical

541
00:39:10.880 --> 00:39:15.960
personnel were attending to Joan at her
home, he took a moment to ask

542
00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:21.360
her whether he could identify her attacker. Now, Boutish said specifically, he

543
00:39:21.440 --> 00:39:24.079
quoted this that when he asked Joan
if a family member had committed the crime,

544
00:39:24.760 --> 00:39:30.679
she shook her head. Yes,
and he maintained that when he asked

545
00:39:30.679 --> 00:39:32.760
her whether it had been her son
Jonathan, the naval officer, or whether

546
00:39:32.800 --> 00:39:37.320
it had been her other son,
she said no to the naval officer,

547
00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:42.519
but clearly knotted up and down yes
when she said when he asked about Christopher.

548
00:39:43.400 --> 00:39:45.679
So police were like, we gotta
find Chris. We need to know

549
00:39:45.719 --> 00:39:49.000
where he is. We see this
videotape, but where is Christopher Now?

550
00:39:49.000 --> 00:39:52.280
They did find him at his dorm
at the University of Rochester, again two

551
00:39:52.400 --> 00:39:57.880
hundred and thirty miles away from the
home where this attack happened. Now,

552
00:39:57.920 --> 00:40:00.840
his story is that on the night
of fourteenth, he went to the dorm

553
00:40:00.920 --> 00:40:06.400
lounge to sleep, and he awoke
the next morning, which plays right into

554
00:40:06.440 --> 00:40:08.599
what I said a second ago.
If he claims that he was sleeping all

555
00:40:08.679 --> 00:40:15.400
night, prove otherwise. Prove otherwise. If there was no camera in his

556
00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:19.920
dorm or no camera where you know
that occurred, I think he's smart enough

557
00:40:19.920 --> 00:40:23.400
to figure that out, right,
then prove it. Prove I wasn't there.

558
00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:29.880
Police theory was that he drove more
than three hours to Albany in the

559
00:40:29.960 --> 00:40:34.400
early morning hours of November fifteenth,
and that his whole plan the entire time

560
00:40:34.480 --> 00:40:39.320
was to attack his parents. So
they had that throughway toll right that collector

561
00:40:39.360 --> 00:40:44.760
toll, and this was right outside
of Rochester, and they see on video,

562
00:40:44.800 --> 00:40:47.679
like I told you, the yellow
jeep wrangler with large tires passed through

563
00:40:47.719 --> 00:40:52.639
the station at about ten forty five
pm on the fourteenth, and a collector

564
00:40:52.159 --> 00:40:58.960
at that station recalled that she remembered
the yellow jeep because it came through at

565
00:40:58.960 --> 00:41:01.440
what she recalled an sessive speed,
like he was going way too fast when

566
00:41:01.440 --> 00:41:08.239
he came through. And then the
yellow jeep approached the toll plaza again shortly

567
00:41:08.320 --> 00:41:13.320
before two am on November the fifteenth. So this worker kind of, Hey,

568
00:41:13.360 --> 00:41:15.760
if you're gonna do bad shit,
maybe you should drive like the most

569
00:41:15.760 --> 00:41:19.800
bland vehicle known to man Jim at
day. If you're listening to me,

570
00:41:19.880 --> 00:41:23.280
don't commit a crime. And the
bright yellow hummer with the sticker on the

571
00:41:23.320 --> 00:41:27.320
back, they're gonna know it was
you. Right, Maybe get a car

572
00:41:27.360 --> 00:41:30.840
that's a little less flashy. So
four security cameras, four different ones,

573
00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:36.639
at the University of Rochester recorded that
same yellow jeep wrangler, just like porkos,

574
00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:40.039
leave the campus at ten thirty and
return around eight am. And again

575
00:41:40.079 --> 00:41:45.360
this was the exact period during which
the prosecutors say that the Porkos were attacked.

576
00:41:45.679 --> 00:41:52.039
Now they did also talk to a
neighbor. So a neighbor even told

577
00:41:52.079 --> 00:41:55.280
the police I saw the Porko that
yellow jeep in front of their driveway the

578
00:41:55.320 --> 00:41:59.280
evening of the attack. And they
are like, are you sure, and

579
00:41:59.559 --> 00:42:01.639
the the neighbors said, I'm positive
I saw the jeep in front of the

580
00:42:01.639 --> 00:42:07.000
house. Interesting about going through the
toll booth too, even though the toll

581
00:42:07.079 --> 00:42:12.079
pass wasn't registered as being used.
So like Chris had a you know,

582
00:42:12.159 --> 00:42:15.679
like a fast pass hanging in his
window that he would use because he frequented

583
00:42:15.719 --> 00:42:19.760
the highway so much. His was
never scanned the night of the murder.

584
00:42:20.519 --> 00:42:22.760
But when the police looked at his
jeep, guess where they found it.

585
00:42:22.760 --> 00:42:27.039
It wasn't up where it went.
It was on the floorboard of the jeep.

586
00:42:27.840 --> 00:42:34.280
Coincidence, I think not so.
A few months before the murder,

587
00:42:34.440 --> 00:42:37.519
Let's talk a little bit more about
their relationship. A few months before the

588
00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:39.400
murder, while away on a trip
to England, so this was in March,

589
00:42:39.559 --> 00:42:44.960
right before the murders, Chris received
an email from Joan. She was

590
00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:47.079
pissed, y'all. She was mad
that he had been failing his classes at

591
00:42:47.079 --> 00:42:51.960
the Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, New York at the time, and

592
00:42:52.119 --> 00:42:55.800
in the message, Joan and Peter
both complained to their son, this is

593
00:42:55.800 --> 00:43:00.320
a quote you just left and we
can't believe our eyes as I look at

594
00:43:00.320 --> 00:43:05.039
your inner own grade report. You
know what they say, three strikes and

595
00:43:05.119 --> 00:43:08.000
you're out. You need to explain
yourself. And the email, like the

596
00:43:08.039 --> 00:43:13.360
subject line of the email was failing
grades. You did it again, So

597
00:43:13.440 --> 00:43:16.800
it kind of showed that they were
kind of done with his poor grades and

598
00:43:17.079 --> 00:43:22.440
they're funding this pony show apparently,
and he's failing. So in the reply

599
00:43:22.599 --> 00:43:27.800
to that email a few days later, Chris says basically that he's going to

600
00:43:27.880 --> 00:43:31.559
blame the community college's registrar's office,
and he said, but they're incorrect.

601
00:43:31.679 --> 00:43:35.840
My lowest grade that I got on
anything was a bee on a physics test.

602
00:43:35.920 --> 00:43:40.639
Don't jump to conclusions. I'm fine. So Porco earned readmission to the

603
00:43:40.719 --> 00:43:45.199
University of Rochester, okay, right
after that. But guess what they found

604
00:43:45.239 --> 00:43:51.599
out. It was a forged transcript
from Hudson Valley Community College. It was

605
00:43:51.679 --> 00:43:57.920
forged you've seen a pattern here.
So Christopher and his parents had also been

606
00:43:58.000 --> 00:44:00.920
arguing and disagreeing about money because he
had taken out loans to pay for his

607
00:44:01.000 --> 00:44:07.960
tuition and that brand new jeep Wrangler, and his parents were not proud of

608
00:44:07.960 --> 00:44:12.559
the way that he had done his
financing method. So, following the fall

609
00:44:12.559 --> 00:44:17.239
of two thousand and three semester,
the University of Rochester officials forced Christopher to

610
00:44:17.280 --> 00:44:22.800
withdraw because of his poor grades.
When he was readmitted the following year,

611
00:44:22.840 --> 00:44:25.360
he took out that loan for thirty
one thousand dollars to pay his expenses.

612
00:44:25.360 --> 00:44:30.119
But this is the thing. He
forged his father's name as a co signer,

613
00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:37.599
so his parents didn't even know that
he was attempting to pay his fall

614
00:44:37.639 --> 00:44:39.920
two thousand and four tuition with the
loan money. Earlier in the fall,

615
00:44:40.280 --> 00:44:45.960
he lied and told his parents that
the university was covering his tuition because a

616
00:44:45.039 --> 00:44:51.079
professor had misplaced his final exam from
the previous fall semester. So, okay,

617
00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:53.639
I mean, I'm not buying that, But I guess when it's your

618
00:44:53.679 --> 00:44:58.800
son and he keeps giving you all
these explanations, maybe they were Maybe they

619
00:44:58.800 --> 00:45:00.800
were buying it. I don't know. They were just like, what is

620
00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:05.519
going on. But two weeks before
the murder, Peter Porco, the dad,

621
00:45:05.599 --> 00:45:09.480
had confronted Christopher about his dishonesty and
the email. He said, did

622
00:45:09.480 --> 00:45:13.719
you forge my signature as a co
signer? What the hell are you doing?

623
00:45:14.239 --> 00:45:16.400
You should have called me to discuss
it. I'm calling City Bank this

624
00:45:16.440 --> 00:45:20.440
morning to find out what you have
done, and I'm going to tell them

625
00:45:20.639 --> 00:45:22.840
I'm not to be on it as
a cosigner. He put his foot down,

626
00:45:23.360 --> 00:45:28.639
and the following day Peter was notified
that Christopher had also obtained a line

627
00:45:28.639 --> 00:45:32.679
of credit from City Bank to finance
the jeep Wrangler. So they didn't even

628
00:45:32.800 --> 00:45:36.960
know that he was doing all this
and taking up their credit and their money.

629
00:45:37.480 --> 00:45:42.719
And so he wrote him again and
he you know, he said,

630
00:45:42.760 --> 00:45:45.079
you've not been answering my phone calls
and weeks, and I want you to

631
00:45:45.079 --> 00:45:49.639
know that if you abuse my credit
again, I'm gonna be forced to file

632
00:45:49.679 --> 00:45:52.880
forgery affidavits in order to disclaim liability. And that applies to the City Bank

633
00:45:53.119 --> 00:45:59.360
college loan that you attempted to get
as well if you try to reactivate it

634
00:45:59.480 --> 00:46:02.480
or use my credit card to obtain
another loan. You know we're gonna have

635
00:46:02.519 --> 00:46:06.559
problems. And at the end of
the email, he said, we may

636
00:46:06.559 --> 00:46:09.679
be disappointed with you, but your
mother and I still love you and we

637
00:46:09.800 --> 00:46:15.440
care about your future. That hurt
my heart. You know, he's totally

638
00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:19.800
abusing them, lying to them,
doing the wrong things, and even though

639
00:46:19.800 --> 00:46:21.880
they're angry, they're telling him we
still love you, son. Let's just

640
00:46:21.880 --> 00:46:27.639
get back on the right track.
Now. The university comes back and says,

641
00:46:28.559 --> 00:46:31.119
we looked at our video too,
and we actually don't see him on

642
00:46:31.480 --> 00:46:36.800
the couch at the dormitory where he
claims he was sleeping. So there's another

643
00:46:37.239 --> 00:46:42.119
another little you know, slicet his
alibi. Now this is even better.

644
00:46:42.519 --> 00:46:46.199
On that ticket that tollbooth, only
twelve cars went through the tollbooth that night,

645
00:46:47.360 --> 00:46:52.519
so if he paid cash and didn't
use the swipe card, then you

646
00:46:52.519 --> 00:46:54.639
would think, oh, well,
they won't know that it was him or

647
00:46:54.679 --> 00:46:59.000
not. Well, ring it ding
ding. Thank you forensic science, because

648
00:46:59.039 --> 00:47:00.960
they took those tickets, it's all
twelve of them, and sent them to

649
00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:05.880
the lab and had them tested for
skin cells, you know, the mitochondrial

650
00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:09.559
DNA testing. And guess what,
bingo, porky boy, it was his

651
00:47:09.679 --> 00:47:15.480
DNA on that ticket. During the
course of their investigation following the murders,

652
00:47:15.199 --> 00:47:22.519
authorities determined that Chris had a history
of antisocial behavior that included burglarizing his parents

653
00:47:22.639 --> 00:47:27.559
home. In two thousand and five, police detectives had to go to California

654
00:47:27.599 --> 00:47:30.159
to retrieve a laptop computer that he
had stolen from his parents in a break

655
00:47:30.199 --> 00:47:35.320
in from two thousand and three.
He stole the laptop and then he sold

656
00:47:35.360 --> 00:47:40.079
it on eBay, and the police
contended that eight months later, Chris staged

657
00:47:40.079 --> 00:47:45.599
a burglary at his parents' home and
that time he stole a Macintosh laptop and

658
00:47:45.920 --> 00:47:50.800
a Dell laptop. A camera was
also reported missing from the burglary, but

659
00:47:50.920 --> 00:47:53.840
that was recovered in the couple's front
yard, so I guess it was dropped

660
00:47:53.840 --> 00:47:59.559
on the way out while running away. And then just one month before the

661
00:47:59.599 --> 00:48:06.280
attack, Christopher and Jonathan Porco both
had their eBay accounts frozen because they had

662
00:48:06.280 --> 00:48:10.199
shared the same del Mar address,
that same house, and what was going

663
00:48:10.280 --> 00:48:15.320
on was that Christopher had not sent
customers the items they had paid for from

664
00:48:15.400 --> 00:48:17.800
his account, so he was selling
things and then not coming through and shipping

665
00:48:17.840 --> 00:48:23.679
the items. So even further when
they investigated. They found that Christopher had

666
00:48:23.719 --> 00:48:30.360
posed as his own brother okay sole
basically his identity, and then sent emails

667
00:48:30.400 --> 00:48:34.360
to the customers falsely stating that his
brother had died and that's why he was

668
00:48:34.480 --> 00:48:42.119
unable to mail the items. Like
what a piece of shit? For lack

669
00:48:42.159 --> 00:48:45.719
of a better term, maybe that's
tacky, but what in hell? Man?

670
00:48:45.000 --> 00:48:50.719
Like, he's just no good.
This is a bad dude. But

671
00:48:50.840 --> 00:48:57.480
here's a huge twist in the case. Joan comes back to and at this

672
00:48:57.599 --> 00:49:00.199
point they go to talk to her
again and now she can't remember the attack

673
00:49:00.880 --> 00:49:08.760
and she absolutely, absolutely, as
firm that Christopher did not do this.

674
00:49:09.039 --> 00:49:15.280
She changes her mind, she changes
her story now again brain damage. You

675
00:49:15.320 --> 00:49:21.199
can't blame the woman, right,
Maybe she doesn't remember now, maybe it's

676
00:49:21.199 --> 00:49:23.679
a mother's love for her son.
I don't know, but she says he

677
00:49:23.719 --> 00:49:30.239
didn't do this. Either way,
he was charged with second degree murder for

678
00:49:30.320 --> 00:49:37.760
his father, and then he was
charged with attempted second degree murder in the

679
00:49:37.880 --> 00:49:44.760
severe wounding and disfigurement of his mother
Joan. Now, during some videotape testimony

680
00:49:44.800 --> 00:49:49.760
that was submitted to a grand jury
in two thousand and four, Joan testified

681
00:49:49.760 --> 00:49:53.320
about her family, but she would
not identify her son as the attacker.

682
00:49:54.000 --> 00:49:58.960
She was so adamant that it wasn't
Christopher. She even wrote a publication to

683
00:49:59.079 --> 00:50:05.440
the Albany Time Union where she open
letter urged the authorities to leave Christopher alone

684
00:50:06.000 --> 00:50:09.239
and to search for Peter's real killers
so that he can rest in peace,

685
00:50:09.639 --> 00:50:14.320
and that she wanted her and her
sons to be able to live safely.

686
00:50:15.559 --> 00:50:20.599
So I really tried to find that
letter. I did a lot of research.

687
00:50:22.039 --> 00:50:24.239
Could not find that publication, and
maybe it was just a bad day

688
00:50:24.280 --> 00:50:28.679
for me, but I couldn't find
it. But I found a picture of

689
00:50:28.719 --> 00:50:31.280
it that I zoomed in on if
you're looking at the screen, if you're

690
00:50:31.320 --> 00:50:35.679
watching me podcast. I took a
picture of it and then zoomed in times

691
00:50:35.679 --> 00:50:38.519
of thousand so that I could read
the letters on it. So I tried,

692
00:50:39.360 --> 00:50:43.960
but this is what it said.
On November fifteenth, two thousand and

693
00:50:44.000 --> 00:50:47.079
four, my world tragically changed.
The happy life that my beloved husband Peter

694
00:50:47.360 --> 00:50:52.480
and our sons, Jonathan and Christopher
had was lost forever. Jonathan was just

695
00:50:52.639 --> 00:50:55.719
starting his career, Christopher was early
in his college life. Peter and I

696
00:50:55.760 --> 00:51:00.480
were contemplating our retirement and planning on
being able to enjoy the rest of our

697
00:51:00.480 --> 00:51:05.480
lives with our many relatives and friends. On that horrible day, Peter and

698
00:51:05.559 --> 00:51:08.039
I were the victims of a brutal
attack. Peter died from his wounds.

699
00:51:08.320 --> 00:51:13.800
Thanks to wonderful doctors, nurses,
medical treatments and surgeries, I have survived,

700
00:51:14.079 --> 00:51:17.079
I continue to improve, and even
though I have suffered grievous injury both

701
00:51:17.159 --> 00:51:22.000
physical and emotional, I thank God
for my life. Unfortunately, the horror

702
00:51:22.039 --> 00:51:25.480
and unbearable sadness I continue to feel
as a result of the loss of Peter

703
00:51:25.559 --> 00:51:31.039
has been dramatically intensified by the trauma
that our cherished son, Christopher has been

704
00:51:31.079 --> 00:51:35.840
forced to endure. I've been told
that within hours of us being found in

705
00:51:35.880 --> 00:51:38.599
our home, the Bethlehem Police declared
Christopher to be a suspect in the murder

706
00:51:38.599 --> 00:51:43.599
of his father and the attack on
me. Incredibly, the police have told

707
00:51:43.599 --> 00:51:47.400
the media that Christopher and his father
had a difficult relationship and that therefore had

708
00:51:47.400 --> 00:51:52.360
a motive to kill him. Now
it goes on further, but I don't

709
00:51:52.360 --> 00:51:53.400
have it, and I really tried
for you. I want you to know

710
00:51:53.440 --> 00:51:58.199
that, but you kind of get
the context of how she was speaking,

711
00:51:58.280 --> 00:52:02.039
and she sounds like a lovely lady
that wants to protect and defend her family,

712
00:52:04.920 --> 00:52:07.239
maybe because of loss of memory,
maybe because you know, she doesn't

713
00:52:07.239 --> 00:52:10.400
want it to be her son,
but she stands by him and that it

714
00:52:10.480 --> 00:52:14.519
does go to trial in two thousand
and six. In June of two thousand

715
00:52:14.559 --> 00:52:21.000
and six, so the police argued
that Christopher's behavior was consistent with a diagnosis

716
00:52:21.039 --> 00:52:29.639
of psychopathy or sociopathy. And they're
two similar disorders, but they're not they're

717
00:52:29.639 --> 00:52:34.159
not this exactly the same, but
they're they're they're consistent, and they're characterized

718
00:52:34.199 --> 00:52:38.360
by pathological deception, scamming and defrauding
others, and a lack of conscious or

719
00:52:38.440 --> 00:52:42.960
remorse. And I think the police
were dead on there. This guy didn't

720
00:52:42.960 --> 00:52:46.159
care about anybody but himself. He
lied to obtain a car, he lied

721
00:52:46.199 --> 00:52:50.960
to get tuition payments, He lied
to other students to tell them that he

722
00:52:50.960 --> 00:52:55.360
came from this extremely wealthy family with
oceanfront homes. You know, he's just

723
00:52:55.639 --> 00:52:59.760
full of it, you know.
The jury began their deliberations on the morning

724
00:52:59.800 --> 00:53:05.360
of August tenth, and the same
day, very quickly, Christopher was found

725
00:53:05.400 --> 00:53:09.000
guilty of second degree murder. And
attempted murder. The judge his name was

726
00:53:09.079 --> 00:53:13.639
Judge Jeffrey Barry. He sent It's
Christopher to twenty five years to life on

727
00:53:13.719 --> 00:53:19.400
each count, totaling a minimum of
fifty years in prison. And Judge Barry

728
00:53:19.440 --> 00:53:22.280
was quoted as saying, I fear
very much what happened in the early morning

729
00:53:22.280 --> 00:53:28.639
hours of November fifteenth is something that
could happen again. So Christopher was then

730
00:53:28.679 --> 00:53:34.559
sent to downstate correctional facility and then
he was moved to another prison in New

731
00:53:34.639 --> 00:53:39.599
York and he is eligible for parole
in twenty fifty two. Interesting enough,

732
00:53:39.800 --> 00:53:46.480
Christopher lived with Joan until he went
to jail. She stood by her son.

733
00:53:46.840 --> 00:53:51.159
You know, it's just awful what
he did to his mom. They

734
00:53:51.199 --> 00:53:54.440
even made a movie about this.
It was called The Romeo Killer The Chris

735
00:53:54.480 --> 00:54:00.960
Porko Story. This was done by
Lifetime and to show you what a skis

736
00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:06.519
he is from from jail from prison, Chris tried to sue Lifetime on the

737
00:54:06.519 --> 00:54:14.119
grounds that his civil rights were being
violated because it was a non consensual living

738
00:54:14.159 --> 00:54:17.920
person's name, portrait or photo for
purpose of advertising our trade. Sorry,

739
00:54:17.920 --> 00:54:22.280
bro, no one's really excited that
you exist like that's a bit much.

740
00:54:22.440 --> 00:54:25.519
Your dad's dead, your mom is, you know, chopped to hell and

741
00:54:25.559 --> 00:54:30.400
back. Get over yourself. And
the courts did appeal that, I mean,

742
00:54:30.400 --> 00:54:32.599
did dismiss that appeal, and we're
like, yeah, no, thanks.

743
00:54:32.639 --> 00:54:37.239
So just horrible story, but I
thought it was an interesting one.

744
00:54:37.679 --> 00:54:39.360
And you know, my heart really
hurts for his mom, you know,

745
00:54:39.639 --> 00:54:45.199
and a mother's love I think has
made Joan Wilfley blind to her son's lack

746
00:54:45.199 --> 00:54:49.920
of care for her and his selfishness. And I'm not I'm not blaming her.

747
00:54:49.960 --> 00:54:52.800
I'm not victim blaming. I'm a
mama. I love my kids and

748
00:54:52.840 --> 00:54:57.320
you would never want to think that
your kids were capable of that. And

749
00:54:57.719 --> 00:55:00.920
the lies he told when it was
pain mainfully obvious that he was lying is

750
00:55:00.960 --> 00:55:06.800
just disgusting. I personally think he's
a complete waste of space. And he

751
00:55:06.880 --> 00:55:10.480
used his parents and they paid the
ultimate price. So I hope he's enjoying

752
00:55:10.519 --> 00:55:14.519
prison because it's where he belongs amongst
all the other lies and cheats. But

753
00:55:15.039 --> 00:55:16.760
all I can say is at the
rady lies, I bet his ass must

754
00:55:16.800 --> 00:55:19.840
get jealous of all the shit that
comes out of his mouth.