A listener note.

This episode contains descriptions of graphic violence that some listeners may find disturbing.

All subjects are innocent until proven guilty in court.

Detective Paluso, investigative note, this is going to be a quadruple homicide. Case number 9704452-0. Date 430 of 97.

In approximately 1730 hours, I was requested to respond to 8801 South Crescent Drive,

a reference several dead individuals.

That recording made almost three decades ago marks the beginning of an extraordinary investigation. And the beginning of a story

that's just as heartbreaking as it is shocking.

I was going to need an ambulance to a neighbor. I was already thinking, okay, that's good. and the only lady has their passed away. And on the pool of Florida.

I was already thinking, okay, that's going to be a bad scene.

Nobody could be prepared for what was found inside the Altador home in Miramar, Florida, that day in the spring of 1997.

We've got a six-week-old baby in her bassinet.

Walked into the kitchen and on the floor with the grandmother.

The two-year-old was in the fetal position and you could see her skull.

Then I went to the living room and the wife was lying on the floor.

Some cases fade from memory over time.

This one stays with you.

To this day, I can close my eyes and see that crime scene.

It was pretty shocking.

With the level of violence that sickened even the most hardened detectives,

a cold-blooded killer wiped out three generations of a family in an instant.

And left behind a puzzling crime scene that stumped investigators for decades.

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