Sophia Caneiro's Blood Was on Jeans in Her Uncle's Basement — She Was Eight Years Old
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The DNA evidence in the Paul Caneiro trial is now on the record, and it's devastating. Forensic scientists testified that blood from eight-year-old Sophia Caneiro was found in three locations on jeans recovered from her uncle Paul's basement — shin, calf, and thigh. Her eleven-year-old brother Jesse's DNA was there too. A surgical glove fused to the jeans by frozen water also carried Sophia's DNA. These items were found fourteen miles from where both children were stabbed to death in Colts Neck. Sophia suffered seventeen stab wounds. According to findings cited in court, she may have still been alive when the fire started beneath her. Prosecutors say whoever killed those kids wore those jeans, wore that glove, and brought them home. That's the physical link tying Paul Caneiro to this crime. Meanwhile, testimony confirmed Keith Caneiro was killed with a contact or near-contact shot through his hood — an execution-style wound delivered while he was already down. The night before, Keith had confronted Paul about $77,000 missing from a family trust. The defense is pushing contamination theories and questioning the investigation, but the children's blood is in Paul's basement. That's what the jury has to reconcile. This episode covers the Day 12 testimony and what it means for the case.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.4 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:08.5 | Sophia Canero was eight years old. |
| 0:11.4 | She weighed 45 pounds and she was stabbed 17 times. |
| 0:16.5 | Why do I say that? |
| 0:17.8 | Not to gross you out or make you go, oh my gosh, this is horrible. |
| 0:22.4 | It is horrible. |
| 0:23.4 | But for context. |
| 0:26.8 | Context is to understanding the monster who committed these crimes. |
| 0:32.7 | Just what they were capable of as a human being. |
| 0:36.7 | When you have the accusation that goes against her very uncle, |
| 0:43.0 | it makes it all the more chilling and scary |
| 0:45.0 | to think that someone could be capable of such violence |
| 0:49.3 | against someone you supposedly love and care about your own niece. |
| 0:57.3 | Wounds to the head, her eye, her torso. |
| 0:59.5 | According to finding, sighted in court, smoke inhalation contributed to her demise, |
| 1:04.5 | meaning she may have still been alive when the fire started in the basement below, |
| 1:09.2 | and it may have been smoke inhalation that ended it for her, |
| 1:13.2 | not just the horrific wounds that an eight-year-old |
| 1:19.8 | was trying to contemplate why she had |
| 1:21.9 | as she slowly slipped off this planet. |
| 1:29.1 | Oh, her blood you showed up in Monmouth County courtroom, |
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