Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan: The New Jersey Mansion Murders - Part 2

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🗓️ 5 January 2025

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Summary

In part two of the New Jersey Mansion Murders, Joseph Scott Morgan explains how investigators determined the fire in the mansion is actually arson to coverup the brutal murders of Keith and his family. The fire at Paul Caneiro's home is quickly determined to be arson and Paul Caneiro is arrested the day after the fire. Paul Caneiro's wife and adult daughters think he is a hero for waking them up and getting them out of the house safely and vow to testify on his behalf. A few days after Paul Caneiro is charged with setting fire to his own home, he is charged with the murder of his brother and Keith Caneiro's family. Prosecutors say Paul Caneiro was motivated by greed. Three days before the killings, Keith Caneiro told his father-in-law, Vlassis Karidis, that Paul had stolen $90,000 from the children's college funds, and that he was planning to cut off the $225,000 salary that Paul drew from a family business. Autopsies show that Keith, Jennifer, and Jesse Caneiro all died instantly, but Sophia lived for 9 hours and died from smoke inhalation. This has led Sophia Caneiro's maternal grandfather, Vlassis Karidis, to file a wrongful death lawsuit against Paul Caneiro. Because Sophia survived her parents, she inherited their estates and died intestate, passing the estates to her grandparents, and Karidis has standing to bring the claim.

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00:02.96 Introduction Part Two, New Jersey Mansion Murders

04:53.02 Shooting adults, stabbing the children, 8 and 11

10:17.82 Keith Caneiro shot in head and lower back

15:06.25 Projectile investigation

20:17.30 Fire started in early morning, not reported until after 12 noon

25:45.68 Fire Hose would go right over a body in the yard if needed

30:28.94 When door opens, fire hit with oxygen

35:04.17 20 different fire companies involved for hours to put out mansion fire

40:15.09 Investigators knew the scene was more than just a fire

47:02.93 Autopsy determines Sophia lived 9 hours, died from smoke inhalation

49:41.57 Conclusion - waiting for trial

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0:00.0	Bodybacks with Joseph's Got More
0:04.0	Blow winds and crack your cheeks, rage below, you cataracts, hurricanes, spout, till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cosephyrus, and thought executing fires.
0:26.1	That's actually from Act 3, Scene 2 of King Lear.
0:33.6	This is part two of the New Jersey Mansion Murders.
0:38.3	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is Body Packs.
0:43.5	In the first episode with the Mansion murders, we kind of laid the groundwork, didn't we, Dave, for this unbelievable familial tragedy that has occurred.
0:59.7	And it would seem, just as in the case of King Lear, that there were storms all about,
1:09.8	that you can curse the storms as much as you want, but they're still going to come.
1:14.8	And in this case, it has ravaged this family and this community.
1:20.2	We're talking about four innocent people executed by shooting, by stabbing, and then to make matters even worse, burned.
1:36.5	It's really hard to take the measure of it, isn't it, Dave?
1:42.4	That it is.
1:51.5	And Joe, in this case where we are dealing with a family being destroyed and I mean that in the general sense of the entire Canaro family and
1:57.5	and we're going biblical on this this is book of genesis stuff brother killing brother
2:06.4	over you know yeah yeah and that's what we have we have the older brother accused of killing
2:11.7	the younger brother and it comes down to brains and money jealous of brains and a disagreement about money.
2:20.0	I've been here since the beginning.
2:21.4	I deserve the same thing you do.
2:23.3	And that's just not the case.
2:24.8	It happens in a lot of businesses, but it's not the case.
2:28.0	And they saw things differently.
2:30.6	Keith was at the point where he had decided that since his brother Paul was spending too much money on things he didn't, that Keith did not believe need to be spent, he was going to cut Paul's salary.
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