Fraudsters Kill, Dismember 71YO Victim | Crime Alert 03.06.25
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 6 March 2025
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Financial fraudsters kill and dismember their 71-year-old victim. Shirtless suspect steals a police cruiser and pulls someone over!
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking Crime News Now. Florida cops investigating the disappearance of 71-year-old Joseph Romano catch Joseph Shilio going through the contents of Romano's mailbox. |
| 0:13.8 | Cops discover proof Shilero and friend Silviano Christman transferred thousands of dollars from Romano's bank accounts into fraud accounts. |
| 0:23.7 | A search of Shilero's home uncovers a freshly covered grave in the backyard inside Romano's dismembered remains. |
| 0:32.7 | Nancy, it's unclear how the three men knew each other and what caused Shilero and Crisman to kill their elderly |
| 0:38.3 | victim. Police believe Romano possibly unearthed Shilero and Christman's scheme leading to his death. |
| 0:44.6 | The last day Romano was seen alive, officers proved that Shalero and Crisman were together, |
| 0:49.5 | providing the basis for the search warrant at Shilero's Valerico home. |
| 0:53.3 | The investigation is still ongoing. |
| 0:55.1 | Joseph Chiliro, 45 and Silviano Christman 31, now charged with murder, abuse of a corpse, |
| 1:02.4 | conspiracy, exploitation of a disabled adult and money laundering. Florida cops try to chase down |
| 1:08.8 | their shirtless suspect who avoidids several taser shots. |
| 1:12.6 | Arnando Lopez manages to avoid officers long enough to get in the driver's seat of a police cruiser, |
| 1:18.6 | takes off with the lights flashing, drivers pull over, Lopez abandons the cruiser, yanks a driver out of a red SUV, and takes off in that. |
| 1:28.9 | Then loses control, flips the SUV. |
| 1:31.9 | Lopez taken into custody for domestic violence, resisting arrest, impersonating a cop and |
| 1:37.3 | grand theft. |
| 1:38.5 | Wow. |
| 1:39.2 | Next thing it'll be a video game. |
| 1:41.0 | More crime and justice news after this. |
| 1:48.5 | Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, crime online's John Limley. A former Virginia police sergeant is headed to prison for the |
| 1:54.5 | fatal shooting of a shoplifting suspect. A Fairfax County judge has sentenced Wesley Shifflett |
| 2:00.3 | to three years behind bars for reckless handling of a firearm, |
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