Double Murder Mystery in Pennsylvania Shocks Small Town!.
Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories
Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories
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🗓️ 6 February 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is also from the Vermont Digger. |
| 0:02.7 | The Pennsylvania murders on January 2nd, 2023, |
| 0:06.2 | Pennsylvania State Police were called to a home in the Chester Heights Borough |
| 0:09.3 | in Delaware County for a welfare check, according to the filings. |
| 0:13.5 | Arriving troopers found 72-year-old Richard Zaco and 69-year-old Rita Zaco |
| 0:18.2 | dead inside an upstairs bedroom. |
| 0:22.9 | Both had suffered gunshot wounds to the head. |
| 0:26.9 | A review of a neighbor's ring camera's footage, according to the filing, showed a vehicle arriving at DeZaco's residence at about 1129 p.m. on December 31st, |
| 0:32.9 | 2022. |
| 0:34.7 | Two minutes later, according to court documents, a higher pitch voice is heard shouting |
| 0:38.9 | what sounds like, mom. Seconds later, a higher pitch voice is heard explaining, oh my God, God, |
| 0:45.7 | God. According to the court documents, movement can be seen at the front door, which appears |
| 0:50.8 | to be opened, then shut, indicating the subjects entered the house |
| 0:54.6 | as the interior upstairs lights could be seen turning on. |
| 0:58.1 | About nine minutes passed before two people were seen leaving the residents out the front |
| 1:02.3 | door, getting into the vehicle and driving away the filing stated. |
| 1:06.6 | When they arrived on the scene two days later, police didn't find a firearm but did recover two nine-millimeter shell casings in the couple's bodies in the bedroom, according to the documents. |
| 1:18.1 | Police also found a Pennsylvania driver's license for a person later identified as the couple's daughter, Michelle Zaco. |
| 1:26.5 | Pennsylvania authorities soon learned that Michelle Zaco may have been living in Vermont, |
| 1:31.1 | according to court documents. |
| 1:32.9 | And though Vermont, Department of Motor Vehicles, records found an address on Webster Road |
| 1:38.2 | in Coventry. |
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