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description box down below. Okay listen, look. Listen. Are you listening? Okay look. So sometimes the YouTube algorithm, y'know it's like meh, whatever. But sometimes it's good. It'll recommend something that-- I don't know. I just like "What is this?". Y'know? So, YouTube was recommending
this court trial to me, the Amato case? And I was lik "Why are you recommending
this to me non-stop?" "Fine. I'll watch it". So, I clicked it. And boy, was it a wild ride. You can watch on YouTube,
the whole court trial, they uploaded all the footage
from the court trial. Of course, they leave out like
the graphic pictures and whatnot, which is good, I don’t think
any of us should be seeing that. But, it's gotta be like
two weeks’ worth of footage. There's just a lot of footage, so, I'm gonna tell you the story
so you don’t have to watch all that. But you can watch it,
and I'll link some down below. Wow! This story's got... It's just... Let's just get right into it. Today’s story takes place
in Chuluota, Florida. Let's start off with
just the family in general. There are kind of a lot of names,
it can get a bit confusing but, bear with me,
I'm gonna try my best. So, Margaret and Chad Amato. They had three sons and they
lived in Chuluota, Florida, like I had said. The oldest son, Jason,
wasn’t Chad's biological son, but Chad adopted him at the age of three
and cared for him as his own. So, Jason considered Chad to be his father. And soon after,
Margaret and Chad got married, and then had two more sons. So, they went on to have Cody,
who was the middle son, and then Grant,
who was the youngest. All three boys were said to
grow up really close, and they did everything together. They were big into sports,
played outside, went to football games and seemed to
just have like a really great relationship. I mean so it seems, y'know? You never know what's
going on behind closed doors, but it just sounded like it was good. I put tape over here
if you're wondering what that is. So, Margaret and Chad,
they provided a pretty good life, or-- Yeah, a very good life I would say. Because they lived in this
big beautiful ass house. They seemed to be doing financially well. They had this big home. They had nice cars. They had gaming systems, computers. I mean all the materialistic stuff,
it seemed y'know, that they had it all. Must I say more? No. Margaret, the mom, she loved horses. She adopted a retired racehorse. She had like a stable where
she kept the horses, and would go down to the stables
and work with her horse. She was passionate about horses,
and if she wasn't inside the home, then you could find her
down at the stable. Margaret worked for a health care company
as a client operations manager. And her husband, Chad,
was a clinical pharmacist at a local CVS, but he also had a second
job/hobby working on computers, and building computers as well. Growing up it was said that
the home was pretty loving, but Chad, their dad,
could be very strict, very old school type of guy, y'know? Where there's was never any
physical abuse going on in the home, but also, it was just like
you didn’t want to piss Chad off, you didn't want to piss your dad off. He was just stricter, and he had
rules that you had to follow, and if you didn’t wanna follow his rules,
then you could get out, y'know. So, the oldest son, Jason,
he ended up moving out when he was like
19 years old, around that age. He would go on to start
his own family as well. He said that he was still
really close to his family. He would visit the home
on holidays. He was always welcome, and he tried to be
around when he could, but again, he had his own life,
and his own family. So, it was just every so often. During their high school years, Cody and Grant were said
to do everything together. Cody was only
one year older than Grant, so, they were pretty close in age. They both were like on the weightlifting team
together at their high school, they played video games together, they built their own
computers together. Yeah, learning how to do so
from their father, 'cause their father
did the same thing. Also, the family, everyone seemed
to own their own guns. And they were a big gun family
it seemed like? I don’t know. But they all had their own guns, and they often went to like
the shooting range together, and both Cody and Grant also
started their own airsoft league. Just a side note, you’re probably wondering
what the hell I’m doing on my eyes. Your guess is as good as mine. I really don’t know. Now it was said that Grant, the youngest,
he was a bit of a loner, he was kind of like the odd ball. Well, Cody seemed to be like
his only friend. Any friends that were Cody’s friends though,
were Grant's friends, but it seemed like those friends wouldn’t
necessarily just invite Grant out. Y'know what I’m saying? Like, it was that type of deal where
Grant seemed to rely on Cody to provide friends. So, Grant, the youngest,
he went on to attend UCF, and then in 2011,
he got his nursing degree. And he wanted to get into the medical field
like pretty much the rest of his family, 'cause all of his family at this point was
working in the medical field. So then in 2018, Grant, was then 29-- He was either 28/29 at the time. But he was fired from the hospital
that he was working at, because... Mhm Grant. He was accused of stealing
eight vials of propofol, a heavy-duty sedative
that's typically used during surgery. Grant was caught with eight vials of it,
like in his pocket, like he was gonna take home, party or something,
we don’t know, we don’t know. Grant was caught. And he was arrested, and in the arrest report
it said that Grant admitted to stealing the drug
to give to patients, that he felt were not being adequately sedated
by doctor ordered medication. He was arrested and
charged with grand theft, but in November the charges
were dropped. It's believed that
the charges were dropped, because Grant was claiming
that he was giving this medication to other patients at the hospital,
which potentially could open up lawsuits against the hospital
if it were true. It’s believed that Grant wasn’t actually
giving this to his patients, that he was actually just going to
take it home, and use it himself, but there isn’t any proof of that,
so it was just completely dropped, because potentially it could
open up lawsuits, and all that jazz. ♫ And all that jazz! ♫ That's what it always comes down to. Money. Lawsuits. Not about the right thing, huh? So, at this time when Grant gets fired,
he’s still living with his mom and dad, and again, he’s about 28/29, and then also Cody is still
living with his parents as well. So, it's Cody, Grant,
Margaret and Chad, all living together
under one roof, okay? Now his family is just
very upset with him, disappointed with him obviously, and it became a very heated topic
when the family would push him, ask him questions like "When are you gonna get a job?". Y'know, parents, asking questions. Like when am I gonna get a job? But they would get into arguments, because Grant just kinda fell into,
what seemed to be, a depression. He didn’t seem to be motivated
at all to get a new job. Yeah, any time his parents brought it up,
it would just start a fight. The parents seemed to just kinda be
getting frustrated with Grant, because he's living rent free, y'know? Has no job, and everyone was paying for whatever Grant needed at that time,
and when he asked. They would just give him money. When Grant's parents would
refuse to give him money, he would ask his brother Cody,
who again was the older brother, and often times, Cody would give him money
for anything that he needed. So pretty much, everybody was
"taking care" of Grant, while he was trying to find a job. Now Grant spent a lot of his time
on his computer, or gaming, and he was home all the time
with like nothing to do, because he didn’t have a job. So what’s like a lonely person, looking for some
sweet loving gonna do? Y'know? Well, he found his way
to a website called MyFreeCam.com. Not sponsored. It was an X rated website,
where you could chat with, or even just view
different cam girls, and pay for like one on one... Video... Sex... Chat... Boom, kind of website. Now if you don’t know what
a cam girl website is, that’s a great question. A Cam Girl website is where women,
even men too, don’t get me wrong, can go on there and like, you can
just be like all sexy and like (quiet vocal grunts) And then people can pay you,
to chat with you, and it’s really up to the cam girl or guy,
how far they wanna go, like if whether it be like some sexual stuff,
or if it's just more PG 13. It's all up to them. But it can get, y'know,
way more X rated, as they say. So, Grant is on there, right? When he's looking around,
he finds this woman, she’s a Cam model, and her name is Silvie,
and she's from Bulgaria. Silvie. Now Grant fell in love
with Silvie, okay? She was beautiful,
she was smart, plus, she would make
him feel special. Now Grant would keep
coming back to see Silvie
on the website, they would talk for hours,
and Grant just felt like he was truly in an intimate relationship with
this woman, Silvie. He told Silvie that he was a very successful,
professional gamer, and that he drove a fancy BMW,
and he was living in his own apartment, creating a new persona
for himself online. I mean, why not? Y'know? The internet doesn’t know
if you’re lying or not. It was said that Grant would
spend hours upon hours online, watching Silvie model and dance online. He would also get
one on one time with Silvie, where she would model for him and/or do sexual things online,
while Grant was watching. Now Grant would pay in order to watch,
or have one on one time with her, but he felt the more
money he spent with this persona he was y'know,
putting out there, the more attention he was
receiving from Silvie. I'm sure this attention was just nice. It probably felt nice. "Somebody likes me!", y'know? Grant said that in order to watch Silvie,
it costed 90 tokens per minute. And Grant had purchased
5,000 tokens for $600. Math. Which means he would get about an hour,
or 56 minutes of Silvie’s time for $600. I'm in the wrong business. As their relationship continued,
Grant would mail Silvie sex toys or lingerie that she would model for him. And at first, Grant was spending
about four hours a night watching Silvie, which was costing him
around $2500 a day. In November of 2019,
bank statements showed that Grant was spending
up to $20,000 a NIGHT. Sending this money to Silvie,
in tips, while he watched. $20,000 a night. Grant was just growing more
and more out of control, like this is just-- Sounds like a full-blown addiction. Now you’re probably wondering,
well how the hell was he getting his money? Because he didn’t have a job, right? He wasn't working, and he was dedicating
a lot of his time to just watching Silvie. So, it was said that he was getting the money
from his parents' credit cards, and also, by hacking their
bank accounts, or his brother, Cody would give him money
from time to time. Nobody really knew
what it was going towards, but yeah. Now, it’s unclear at what point
Grant's parents had caught on, but it was said that Chad and Margaret
had confronted Grant about these like $600 charges that they were
seeing in their bank accounts. And Grant had told his parents, that he was spending
the money on Twitch, promoting his account so he would grow
in followers and subscribers, and in the long run that
it would pay off. Because if you are
a video game streamer, I mean, I think they
make a lot of money, right? So, Grant's mother, father, and his brother,
they knew that he was like, stealing and spending a large amount of money. They’re unsure if they knew what exactly
it was for, like what the truth was, but any time is was brought up,
it was just again, like a heated topic. Cody tried to be the
calm one in the family, he tried to tell Grant "Hey, I'll be here, and I'll help you
in any way." "And I can help you like,
pay everybody back.", and he was just the one
who seemed to be trying to keep the peace in the family,
and keep everybody calm. Cody just seemed like
he was always trying to protect Grant. So earlier I said that the parents had
looked at their bank statements from 2019, it was from 2018, sorry. In December of 2018, Grant,
and his brother Cody, plus a friend named Jericho, they went on a trip to Japan. The group was really into anime, and was looking forward to going
and seeing the art, the culture, and just anime. I believe there was like
a studio out there, an animation studio that they were really
excited about, but they all went. Now because Grant had no money,
Cody, his brother, ended up covering all costs
for him to go. I know. It was said that the last day
that they were in Japan, Grant told Cody and his friend,
that he wasn’t feeling very well, and that he wanted to stay behind. While the two others went out, to kinda adventure around
a little bit before they left. So later on, it was discovered
that Grant actually had taken, or stolen I should say,
their friend Jericho’s credit card, and he went to a place with Wi-Fi,
and used the card to pay and watch Silvie, while the other two were away. The friend, allegedly I should say,
he didn’t notice that the card was gone, until he got a notification or a phone call
from his parent, asking like "Why are you charging this large amount?”,
'cause it was like $600. "Why are you charging--
Like what is this charge?". And that’s when they realized that,
Grant had taken his card. I mean he sounds like
a drug addict, right? He’s just gotta get his Silvie fix. Now, when the brothers
had returned home, things got heated. Grant's father was disappointed
that Grant still didn’t have a job, and that he wasn’t really
doing anything with his life, except for spending
everybody else’s money, and putting everyone into debt. At the end of December of 2018, their father, Chad, was looking
at his bank records again, and discovered that a lot more
money was missing, which he then asked Grant about it,
and it led to an argument. Now, Grant ended up leaving
the home that day, and he just kinda drove off
into the night, right? And this was on
December 19th of 2018. His mother called 911,
and she expressed that, y'know, she was worried about him,
because he seemed really depressed, and she believed he may have
been possibly suicidal. Margaret, then told the police that
she had received a text from Grant saying “I’m really tired of everything, just
going to handle it my own way”. Grant ended up driving
out to his aunt's home, which wasn’t too far, it was in Florida. I think it was in Orange County,
can’t remember sorry. But he ended up driving out
to his aunt's home, he asked if he could
stay there with her, and she agreed,
she let him in. His aunt said that
he seemed very depressed, she had noticed that he just seemed like
he was lost; he just wasn’t there. She also noticed that Grant would be
asleep all day, and then stay up all night. His aunt and uncle,
they also had guns in the home, and they thought it would be best
if they took the guns, they locked them up, at least while
Grant was staying there, because he just seemed very down. So, a few days go by,
and his aunt looks at her bank account. And what does she see? Yes. Grant again,
what the hell are you doing? She sees all these weird charges,
and they’re for hundreds of dollars. She doesn’t recognize them, and then that’s
when she finds out that Grant had stolen her credit card information,
and was using it to pay and watch Silvie at night
while the family was asleep. Like what the heck are you doing? Y'know? Also, it was said that Grant's uncle,
grandma, and one of his cousins all had charges on their cards,
again from Grant, to watch Silvie. So, he was just hacking
everybody’s bank account, at least in his family it seems. So, Grant's aunt, calls up Grant's father,
his name's Chad, remember? And she's like "Hey, listen. He stole
my credit card information" "and I have these weird charges". And she’s telling him
everything, right? And then that’s when Grant's father,
just had a like, full blown break down,
and cried on the phone, telling her that
this has been going on, and the family was in
$150,000 worth of debt, that was caused by Grant's
spending on this website or whatever. $150,000 in debt. Chad told her over the phone, that he didn’t think he would
be able to retire for years, but that, it was okay,
because he wanted to do it for Grant, and he didn’t want him to go to jail. Asked her to please not press charges,
and Chad promised that he would pay her back any of money
that was made from Grant. Grant had stolen between
$200,000 to $250,000 from the family, just so he could
interact with Silvie online. So, it was like $150,000,
just from his family alone, and then from his immediate family,
and then his aunt, uncle, grandma, grandpa, like everybody else was
getting hit around him too. And Grant, he had a problem and the family
didn’t want him to go to prison, they knew he needed help
and not prison. So, the family, Mom, Dad, Cody,
and their older brother Jason, they all came up with a plan
to confront Grant at their aunt's house and have like a little intervention. The family showed up, and then they
waited outside of the aunt’s house, and then once Grant leaves the home, he was walking out,
like he’s walking back to his car, that’s when they all confront him, and they were either taking him
to a treatment facility, or he was going to be cut off from the family,
that’s what they’re telling him. "Hey man, we think that you have a problem." "You're literally stealing everybody’s money," "and we just wanna help you, and we don’t
want you to go to prison," "so please just go to this treatment facility
and get some help." "And y'know. We'll definitely help you". The family just seemed very supportive
and gave him so many chances. They just wanted to help him. Now, it was said that Grant was
the quiet, submissive type, and that he didn’t really say anything
when this happened, he was just kind of like
"Okay. Yeah". Y'know? And that he voluntarily went to the
rehab clinic in South Florida. Now this clinic is mainly for people with
addiction, drug addiction and whatnot, but I mean, there really aren’t many clinics
that focus strictly on like internet addiction. So okay, he agrees, cool. So, they drive him out there, they’re like "Yes, this is gonna be great.
Y'know, Grant's gonna change." "Yippee ki-yi yay, let’s go". So, they drive him out there to the facility,
and the family pays $15,000 for him to receive 60 days of treatment,
and then they all just kinda went back home. Cody and Chad, Chad's the father,
Cody is the middle child, remember? But they were able to hack into
Grant's computer, back at the house, and then that’s when they saw like this
fake life that Grant was living online. This is when they find out
the whole truth, y'know? So, they saw that Grant was claiming
to be a successful gamer, who lived alone, had nice cars,
and just where all this money was going. This is why I can’t be a parent,
'cause I would lose my shit. Well they decided just to take matters
into their own hands, y'know. "Let’s just reach out to all of Grant's friends," "and reach out to this Silvie lady
and tell her the truth". So, they did just that. They go on there,
they message everybody, when Grant went to go talk to Silvie,
there’s almost like a community, there’s like a handful of people
who were very loyal to Silvie, and were always there when she went live,
and they all kind of became friends, they shared this interest in Silvie
and kinda had a connection about that, I guess. I’m not really sure. But he became friends with the people
who also viewed Silvie. So, Cody and Chad, they message everybody,
and pretty much tell them the truth. Saying that Grant had been lying,
that he actually lived at home, he had no job,
he had a basic vehicle. They told Silvie that Grant had been
giving her stolen money from the family, and that they were no longer allowed
to contact each other. Grant's in treatment,
and he’s there for two weeks. After two weeks, Grant leaves
the treatment center, saying that he’s cured. He's fixed. "I’m healed, wow.
I’m all good now". Grant apparently, allegedly,
he went to the treatment center and was just telling them everything
that they wanted to hear. Pretty much the treatment center said that
they really couldn’t do anything for him. So, they just kinda, they let him go
after two weeks. Grant goes back to the family home, and I don’t really know why
the family allowed him to come back home, but they did, and y'know,
we can’t judge, we're not them. So, on January 5th,
Grant comes back home, and he’s allowed to stay there,
but he’s gonna have some new rules, that Chad, his dad, put in place. So, Chad and Grant sat down,
and he gave Grant some ultimatums. Like, "You can either live in my house,
and follow my rules," "or you could leave, move out,
or join the military". Y'know "If you stay in my home, then you are
no longer allowed to have a cellphone," "and if you do have a cellphone," "you’re not allowed to have one
that has internet access". So just like a little flip phone
or something, y'know? Grant would not be allowed
to use the internet at night, and they were going to take away
his computer, out of his room, also, that he needed to get a job and start
paying off some of the debts that he owed. So, this is what Chad is telling Grant. Which sounds like what
most parents would do, so, a lot of people do,
do this. usually to like a teenager, y'know. But Grant is almost 30 years old. So, it’s like, come on Grant,
get it together man. you’re an adult,
get it together. Now, the biggest and
the most upsetting rule, Grant was going to have to
cut all ties with Silvie. Like it was done, he was
not allowed to contact her. So, when Chad tells Grant like, "You can’t talk to
Silvie anymore.", I think that’s at the moment
when he informs Grant like, "Hey, we actually contacted her." "Mhm." "And we told her the truth.", and in my mind, that’s probably the moment
that like really just set Grant off, and probably just-- I mean that would be just embarrassing,
and he’s probably angry, 'cause he thinks he’s
in love with this woman. So, Chad is trying to
explain to Grant that "You're literally putting a stranger, that
you’ve never met, over your own family.", and that "Now, the family is
financially struggling because of this". They’re just trying to get
through to Grant, like open his eyes. Like, it’s not worth it. "What are you doing?
We’re trying to help you". Now grant agreed to these rules
in order to stay in the house. It was said that Margaret,
Grant's mother, she was more sad, because her son,
like her baby, she seemed to have like
a soft spot for Grant. But time went on, and Grant was
seeming to follow the rules, just trying to get his life together,
but it didn’t really last long. I guess Grant would go to Margaret,
his mother, ask if he could use her phone, because her phone
could access internet. And Margaret would allow him
to use her phone, and talk to Silvie on twitter. On January 24th, Chad found out that
Grant was using his mother’s phone to still talk to Silvie, and told him that
he needed to get out, that he had ruined his retirement
and to just leave. Chad then left for work, Grant is said that
he was packing like a small bag, because he was gonna leave,
and then Cody was at work as well, receiving text messages about
what was going on back at home, because there was like an argument. Around 9:15pm, Cody was done
with his shift at work, he told his girlfriend that
he had to go home and “Deal with stupid shit.", AKA the family drama thing
that was happening, and he went home. On Friday, January 25th, 2019, the sheriff’s office got a call
from one of Cody’s friends and coworkers. He told the dispatcher that
he was concerned because Cody hadn’t
showed up for work, plus, Cody wasn’t responding
to any text messages. And according to this friend,
who had worked with, and known Cody for years, said that Cody always had
his phone on him, and that in the years that he knew him,
never came late to work, so, it was just strange that
Cody wouldn’t show up. Police went out to the home to
perform a welfare check at 9:17 a.m., they knock on the door,
and they get no answer. The cars were in the driveway,
and they also noticed that all the windows downstairs
were covered with paper, so you couldn’t even
see in the windows. They were able to use a knife and open the lock on a door
to the master bedroom, and then the police, y'know,
walked into the home, and then they see
the body of Chad, lying on his back, on the kitchen floor,
with blood just all around him. There was a pool of dried blood
in two different areas of the kitchen, and also, what seemed to be like claw marks
through the smeared blood, as if he was trying to crawl his way across
the floor to get somewhere, maybe get to the phone, we're not sure,
but there’s photos. I wouldn’t recommend it. I mean, it’s better if you didn’t. There was chicken on the counter defrosting,
and Chad's lunch box was on the floor. It seemed like, maybe Chad
had just gotten home from work, he went to the kitchen
to unpack his lunch bag, take out the chicken maybe, and start dinner,
when he was shot from behind. He also had a gun and holster
on his right hip. They continue searching around the house,
and they find Margaret in her office, she’s sitting in her chair and she’s slumped
over on top of her computer. She had a glass of wine on the desk,
and her computer was open, and she was shot from behind. I'm sorry, and she was dead,
same with Chad as well. They also find Cody, who was dressed
in his work scrubs, laying on the floor by the door to the garage,
and he also had been shot, and was dead. There was also a backpack
near him and there were two different handguns laying
about five feet away from Cody, and four bullet casings
were on the ground as well. At first it appeared
to be a murder suicide. That Cody, may have shot his
mother, father and then himself, but once the crime scene
was looked at more closely, they had reason to believe
that this was indeed, not a murder suicide. Police had come out
to the home previously, and they knew that there was
another son, Grant. Who lived there, but he was nowhere
to be found that day. The next day, Saturday, they were able
to track down Grant's car at a Double Tree hotel
in Orange County, Florida. And Police were able
to find like which room Grant was in, and they knock on the door
to get Grant. And on police body cam footage,
you can see Grant like crawling on the ground
when police come in, and he turns around, he’s on his knees,
he turns around to be handcuffed. At this time, they had
no evidence on Grant. There was no fingerprints found, there was no DNA linking
to like a killer at all, there was no murder weapon. It’s believed that whoever had done this,
made sure to clean up afterwards, and then stage the scene. So, Grant wasn’t under arrest, he was just being taken
in for questioning. And so, Grant goes in for questioning,
and he would there for over seven hours, just talking to investigators about what’s
been going on within the last few months, the problems they were having,
and the money problems, pretty much just everything
we talked about right now. He was really honest. Well... (scoffs) But he was, he was like
honest about the money and the girl and stuff, he didn’t try and like
make anything up. But he told investigators that
Chad had confronted him about Silvie on the night of the 24th, and that Chad told him
he needed to leave the house. Grant said that he packed a bag,
and then he left the house, but before he left,
Cody had stopped him, and said that he would
promise to take care of their parents, and try to calm down the situation. Grant told investigators that when he left,
everyone was alive and fine. Grant was trying to set it up
to investigators in a way that made it sound like Cody
was going to “talk to the parents”, and then he left the house
and he had no idea what happened after that. So, he’s suggesting like "I don’t know. Cody said
he was gonna deal with it". And you can actually watch
the full questioning video on YouTube. But here’s the kicker. Here’s the kicker, Grant. Grant. Some of us are very observant, okay? And we noticed something, Grant. He’s claiming he left the house,
he had nothing to do with anything, right? He's like
"I left, y'know everyone was alive." "I don’t know". Well then Grant, how come in those
HOURS of questioning, not once did Grant ask, “Hey, why am I here?" "What happened to my family?" "Why you are asking me about--" "Why you asking me questions
in the first place?”. Hello. So, he’s trying to give off this impression
that he’s completely innocent. He hasn’t even been told
what happened to his family yet, okay? So... And grant if you’re so innocent,
why was it when police came to the hotel, you automatically got on your knees
and turn around to be arrested? If he knew what
happened to his family, I would assume that you
would not ask questions, as far as like "Why am I here?" and stuff, But if you didn’t know,
your first question would be like "What the hell? Why am I here?" "Why are you knocking
at my hotel door?". Stupid ass. He’s a stupid ass. Yet Grant didn’t even ask. About halfway into
the interrogation is when finally, one of the
detectives pulls out like photos of the crime scenes
and shows it to Grant. Asking him if that’s, y'know,
how he left the house. "Was that how your mother looked?", and like shows him
a picture of his mother’s body. And he does again like
"Or what about Chad and Cody?", and shows Grant pictures of their bodies
and like the whole gory scene. And Grant appears to be very upset,
but claims that he had nothing to do with this. Grant said that the family had been
blaming him for months for ruining their lives,
stealing from them, and not following any
of the rules set in place, so, he might as well be blamed for this too,
like he was just being such a diva. Grant originally said that
he had packed his bag, and then left the house
around 9:30 p.m., and that his family was fine, and then his story changed, and he said he left around
12:30 in the morning, and spent the night
in a grocery store parking lot, then drove to a job interview
in the morning. Investigators were pushing, trying to get some
kind of confession from Grant, but he stood by his innocence. Grant's older brother Jason,
the one who lives on his own, and the only member that’s still alive,
well besides Grant, but Grant, is a piece of shit. Jason comes down, he’s called down
and informed about what happened. Obviously, Jason’s extremely upset. But they did allow a one on one
meeting with Jason and Grant. You see Jason walk in and give Grant a hug,
and then just sit down and press grant for some answers,
asking him if he had anything to do with it, "Please just tell me,
I need closure. I need to know." "And I would be very upset if I heard from
an attorney, or the media, that you did it," "instead of yourself.",
this is what Jason’s saying to Grant. Jason just seems like
the kindest person ever, completely devastated that
he just lost his whole family, and the only one
who lived at that house, and was still alive,
had no answers for him. Jason didn’t seem like
angry or aggressive at all, just asking for the truth, it’s just-- Oh, it’s so sad to watch. Based off what I watched and heard,
and read in the court documents, it’s like, it just seemed like this family
really cared about one another, and it’s just so heart breaking. By the end of the meeting,
Jason tells Grant that he thought he had
something to do with it, and that he just didn’t know
what to do now. Grant though, stood by his innocence, but also, just didn’t even say much. I guess he wasn’t much of a talker in general,
so it wasn’t unusual. Grant was released
on the 26th, because again they had no evidence
showing that he did it. They had no fingerprints, no DNA,
nothing linking him to the crime. So, detectives knew they were
going to have to build like a really strong case
against him in order to get a conviction. I mean, he’s the only one
who had a motive. Yeah, all signs are pointing to him,
but there’s actually no physical evidence, and that’s where
they were struggling. So, they let him out, and... (scoffs) Investigators question anyone
close to the family, and they get more information about Grant's relationship with
his online girlfriend, the money. Cody’s girlfriend told investigators that,
Cody had told her, that he was afraid that
Grant would kill everyone, and at the same time, crime scene investigators
are building their case. It was determined that it was NOT
a murder suicide, due to many things. Cody, his body was on the floor
next to the door, which lead to the garage, but there was no blood on the door
behind him, or the door frame, which meant that the door had been opened
when Cody was shot. So, someone had to shut the door
AFTER Cody was shot. Like if you die,
you can’t shut a door. Also, it was determined that
Cody’s body had been moved. There was a pool of blood at his feet,
and no blood near his head, so, it was determined that his body
was like moved around. Also, it was determined that Cody
was shot from three feet away, which again, proves that it wasn’t
a murder like, suicide. So, it was determined that Chad
was shot from behind, and that the first shot
didn’t kill him, so he was trying to like
move across the floor, and that’s why there were like
streaks in the blood, showing that he was trying to move, but then he was shot again
while on the kitchen floor. He was again, kinda moved around in a way,
that made it look like Cody had shot him. And then Margaret was not moved,
but she was shot from behind, at her desk, and that just killed her. Grant was arrested and charged with
three counts of premeditated murder. On him they found a pair of leather gloves,
a credit and debit card, which belonged to
his father and brother Cody. He also had his passport with him, which led investigators to believe that
maybe he was gonna try and flee, go see his girlfriend,
Silvie, y'know? There was also a handwritten note found in
Grant's possession signed from Cody. In the note it pretty much said, "I'm sorry for what’s going on," "and I’ll take care of it,
don't worry", I'm not gonna go too much into
detail about what it said, because it was later determined
that it written by Grant, to kinda feed into the murder suicide
storyline he was trying to create. Which is pathetic, because it was
like his own brother. I'm like-- (frustrated slurp) So, his trial was in July of 2019, and he still claimed
that he was innocent. Grant's team suggested that
maybe someone broke into the house, maybe it was a drug deal gone bad, because they had found a small amount
of marijuana in the home, so, they were like "Oh yeah, they were dealing drugs." "How many drugs?" "There was lots of drugs!" "Marijuana?" "Oh my god." "Drug deal?". Like they just found
that Marijuana, and were like "That's it, drug deal gone bad.", y'know? Based off forensic evidence,
it was determined that Margaret was shot in the head from behind,
as she sat at her desk. The last activity on Margaret’s computer
was at 4:44 p.m., so, it’s believed that this, y'know, kinda
started at that time. Cody and Chad were not home yet,
when Grant shot his mother. Then Chad came home,
his father, around 5:30 p.m., he went to the kitchen
to put his stuff away, get dinner started, that’s when Grant quietly
approached him from behind, and shot his father. And investigators knew this,
because on Chad's iPhone, it was tracking all of his steps,
through one of those, like fitness apps, y'know? The step counters. So, they could see how many steps Chad took,
and then when it stopped. Then Cody arrived home
from work around 10 p.m., and he walked through the garage
that connects to the house, he walked in the door, and then
that’s when Grant just shot him. Then it’s said that Grant spent
several hours at the home, moving the bodies around and staging it to
look like, again, a murder suicide. Remember how I mentioned that
there were four bullets shell casings on the ground? And it was determined that the
four bullets that were found, or the shells I should say, did not come from any of the handguns that
were found in the home. They came from an unknown weapon,
and the gun that it came from was never found. Also, Chad, the father,
had a gun holster on his right hip, and it was later proved that this was
placed on him after his death. There was a spot of blood on Chad's pants,
under the holster, which wouldn’t have
been able to get there if he was indeed wearing
the holster when he was shot. Around midnight, it was determined that Chad
had logged into his banking app on his iPhone using the fingerprint reader
on the night that he had died. Also, it was shown that money was
transferred from Chad, his bank, to Grant's bank account
through the app. Jesus, I know. When investigators
looked at Chad's finger, they saw that it had been
wiped clean, and it's believed that Grant, cleaned his dead dad's finger. Cleaned the finger,
and then used it to log into his phone. What kinda special
fucked up is that? When I read that, I was like "What the...?". That same night, after murdering
his whole family, Grant also used Cody’s, his brother, his
brothers credit card, to pay and watch Silvie,
sending her over $600, while sitting in his car,
in the grocery store parking lot at three in the morning. So, after he murdered his family,
he drives to a grocery store parking lot, sits there and watches Silvie. What the fuck? Yeah, yeah. I don’t even know what to say. Just unbelievable. So, they had found gloves in Grant's possession
at the time of his arrest. and they were taken in to be tested
for gun powder residue, which it came back positive. Grant said that’s because he wore these
gloves all the time when he shot, but numerous witnesses said that
he rarely wore these gloves, like ever. On Grant's computer, a typed-out
letter was found, by Grant, to send to Silvie, and to some
of his friends he made online. And this letter was typed
two days before the murders. It's long, so I’ll give you
like a little summary. Pretty much Grant apologizes
for lying about himself, and confesses that he isn’t successful,
and that he lives at home, that he lied because he wanted to stand out
to Silvie, and like get her attention. Grant said that his family found out about
the money spent and “ambushed” him, then forcefully made him go to a clinic
for his unhealthy addiction to Silvie and cam girls. He then goes on to say that everything his family mentioned to Silvie
was a lie to poison his image. He then says that he will never be able to
forgive himself for making Silvie sad and for betraying her trust in him. He begs for her forgiveness
and asks for “an actual second chance”, then going on to say that he will do whatever
it takes to be able to show the real him. This letter is eight pages long,
just begging for forgiveness, and how he will never get over Silvie,
and how he never plans to replace her. And towards the end
of the eight-page letter he says, "I can’t give up on her
and I never will". "She is my everything." "I will give her my life to simply be able
to make her smile again". Dramatic much? The jury spent, I believe,
like eight hours, and they come back,
and give Grant his verdict. Mind you he showed
no emotion during the trial, even when his older brother took the stand
and just cried over his lost family, Grant just looked like a vampire. Like he kinda looks like this
creepy ass vampire, and he was just cold, balding, emotionless,
fragile looking... Vampire. I don’t know, it was just like
so uncomfortable to watch. In the very beginning,
in like the opening statements, I believe Grant started crying
when they showed pictures of, y'know. the parents' and his brother’s
bodies to the jury, and throughout the whole thing though,
just nothing, it was weird. But then I guess at one point they show the
jury like a picture of Silvie on the screen, and Grant, like his eyes are just kinda like
fixated on Silvie, on the big screen. And it’s just like,
oh my god dude. Really? Like you’re whole family’s dead
and you’re still obsessed with her? I don’t-- Yep. Anyways, the jury decided not to
give him the death penalty, instead they sentenced him to life in prison,
without the possibility of parole. Grant Amato will be spending
the rest of his life in prison. To this day, he still claims
that he is innocent, and when approached by media
asking for an interview, he said he would
be open to doing so, only if the company would maybe help
cover costs to get him out of prison, or if they could put him in touch with a millionaire
who would help him get out of prison. Yeah. He thinks that’s gonna happen. He’s still denying. Deny, deny, deny, deny. Even though all signs
point to you Grant. Grant says he has quite
a few pen pals in prison, and people y'know support and stand by him
and are rooting for him to get out. And you’re probably wondering,
well what the heck happened to Silvie? 'Cause yeah I had questions too. Some people were thinking, y'know,
maybe Silvie was involved somehow? Or maybe she was
pressuring Grant to do it? Or maybe to
steal the money? Y'know, maybe something
more was going on. Well, I don’t really know what happened
to her to be honest. (laughs) I tried to find out! Okay, I went through
the court documents. Mind you, there’s like
thousands of court documents, so, I mean, maybe I missed it,
but I couldn’t find anything. There were two names
on the witness list that were blacked out, I’m thinking that it was maybe Silvie? I don’t know, we don’t know. I'm assuming that Silvie was questioned,
because why wouldn’t she be? I feel like that would make sense. But in the opening statements, it was suggested
like, Silvie may not be her real name. So, I was thinking that maybe Silvie
was like her cam girl name, and she didn’t want her real name
out there in the public, like when it was y'know, in court,
and in the media and whatnot. That’s what I’m thinking. But I’m sure they questioned her, right? They had to. I personally have a feeling that Silvie, I don’t think she had any idea
of what Grant was really doing. I’m sure that she was just, y'know,
accepting the money from him. I mean who wouldn’t. You don’t question every customer
that comes into your store, you just take the money
and they get the fuck out. So, I feel like she probably
didn’t know, but who knows? (mumbles) I don’t know. So that is the horrible story about Grant
Amato, and what he did to his poor family. Rest in peace to Chad,
Margaret, and Cody Amato. Who’s lives were taken
because of this selfish, entitled brat, who sadly was
their own son. Shesh. Stories like this are just heart breaking,
because it seems like this family, who truly was trying to do everything
they could for their son, or just their family in general. But Grant, who knows what the fuck
was going on with him? Because, he was acting like
an entitled teenager. A 30-year-old teenager. It's just unbelievable. And like for what? For some titties!? Like come on. What was his plan? Jeez, so many questions. What a gross human being. I'll link down in the
description box, y'know, the videos, if you wanna
check them out. You could see him talking
to his brother and stuff. Oh, it’s just sad. But Grant is just so creepy,
and just suspiciously quiet. Thank you, guys, so much for
hanging out with me today. Let me know your thoughts down below. I think naturally a lot of people
wanna say like "Well, why didn’t the family
do this and do that?", it’s like well, y'know,
we don’t know. We don’t know. And the whole things
just sad, poor family. I don’t want kids, because what if
I have one of these shitheads. Oh. I don’t know what I would-- I would be pissed. Thank you, guys, so much for
hanging out with me today. I hope you have a wonderful
rest of your day. Please, please, please, stay safe out there. Make good choices. But most of all if you have kids, I don’t
wanna tell you how to parent, but make sure to monitor what
your kids are doing online. I wanna say a big thank you to CaseTiFY for
partnering with me on today’s video. Let me know who you want me to talk about
next week, but other than that, I love you guys! I appreciate you guys! And I'll be seeing you later! Bye! (suspicious music)
I have seen the crime scene photos. The one of the mother is soo sad because she had no idea that her child she raised was about to murder her.
I just watched this video yesterday. It's the second video of Bailey's I've ever watched, I just discovered her.
So there I am watching this video when she mentioned that Cody and grant went to Japan in December 2018 with their friend Jericho....
I have a friend called Jericho who went to Japan around that time with two other guys..... One of whom he put up an RIP post for less than two months later. I connected the dots.
Yup, the one and the same Jericho! I had no idea what had happened to his friend when I'd seen his RIP post. What a way to find out.
God I love her!
This case was insane. It sounds like his family bent over backwards to help him and keep him out of jail... but he murdered them and ended up in jail anyways. Like wut? Just insane
this case was super disturbing to me, especially with the part that after murdering his father (and mother and brother) he cleaned his fathers finger, used it to unlock his phone and proceeded to send himself money from his dads account.. so messed up to me that he was so deeply invested and obsessed with this woman that he would go that far. also when he was interrogated, he never asked why he was there?? that was a dead giveaway that he did it. wonder what sylvie is up to now, if she has continued being a cam girl or if that experience made her change her mind? did she love him or just like the money and didn’t question anything, like his fake background? so many questions.
And I thought Cam on Netflix was wild. Geez! What a ride, huh.
Sassiness aside, I wasn’t going to repost this video. I know there’s a difference between being a fangirl versus being a Grant Amato, being an adult living with one’s parents versus being an adult reliant on them, being depressed and anxious versus being just plain lazy, but I’m still oversensitive about it all. However, these posts are a subreddit tradition at this point, so shrugs.
... anyway. All comments are welcome, as usual! I hope everyone is well. :)