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Paul Caneiro Trial Week 2: Financial Motive, Bloody Clothing, and the Defense's Third Brother Theory
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Week two of Paul Caneiro's murder trial has brought damning financial testimony and a defense theory that points at someone else entirely. A detective specializing in financial crimes testified about bank records showing transfers from Keith Caneiro's trust account into Paul's personal account—with no payments going back. Prosecutors say the theft totaled at least $75,000, and that Keith was preparing to cut Paul off from their shared businesses and his $225,000 salary. The night before the murders, Keith forwarded a company email stating Paul would no longer be paid. Paul Caneiro, 58, is charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the November 2018 deaths of his brother Keith, sister-in-law Jennifer, and their two children, 11-year-old Jesse and 8-year-old Sophia, at the family's Colts Neck mansion.
Prosecutors say Paul shot Keith, stabbed the rest of the family, then set the house on fire. Evidence includes blood-stained clothing found at Paul's home with DNA matching his slain relatives, and a gun linked ballistically to the bullets that killed Keith. But defense attorney Monika Mastellone says investigators never looked at a third Caneiro brother, Cory, who also stood to benefit from the family's life insurance policy. Paul has maintained his innocence for more than seven years while awaiting trial.
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