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Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Double Murder Mystery in Pennsylvania Shocks Small Town!.

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Law Enforcement, Crime, True Crime, Military

4.4870 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Double Murder Mystery in Pennsylvania Shocks Small Town! #RichardandRitaZajko #MichelleZajko#JackLaSota

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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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