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[music] >> Kelly Morrissey was a young girl who didn't like to stay home. She liked to hang out with her friends.
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[music] June 12th, 1984, Kelly walks to a payphone near a Shell gas station over
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on Merrick Road in Lynbrook and meets up with another one of her friends and they make some phone calls after that
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payphone. We don't know where Kelly went. >> Knowing Kelly, there is no way I believe
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she ran away. No. And then on November 10th, 1984, just 5 months later, Teresa Fusco
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disappears. >> And what is the initial thought? >> The initial thought is there might be a
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connection. Teresa worked at the uh on Merrick Road in Lynbrook, Hot Skates. >> And for her to go to Hot Skates, she
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would have to walk in this direction down the street. >> Did you ever [music] worry about her
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walking? >> No, I never really worried about her walking anywhere in the neighborhood.
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That evening, she apparently got fired. She's [music] upset and then she leaves.
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>> Wasn't she supposed to go to Lisa Kaplan's house? >> Yeah, her best friend, yeah.
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>> She was going to come to my house after she got off of work and sleep over. [music]
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So, it becomes like 9:00, she's not there. >> Yep. >> 9:30, [music] not there. 10:00, I just thought maybe she went
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home. Well, the next morning, her mother called and her mom asked my mom, "Can you please have Lisa send Teresa home?"
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And my mom said, "Teresa's not here." Her mom called the police department. We went to all the places we would hang
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out and she wasn't anywhere that we searched. >> It's just very coincidental. Same neighborhood, same time frame, two
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girls who knew each other. I'm like, "Something's not right. Something's [music] just not right."
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>> And then 25 days later, these two boys coming back to hang out here in the woods.
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>> [music] >> They see a body and they run to the deli and ask to call 911. Police show up and they find Teresa
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Fusco. >> Teresa had been strangled, [music] beaten, and raped. >> It truly was shattering.
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At 16, to never have lost anybody that you [music] loved in such a horrific way.
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You just can't get over that. >> But until there's a connection in the two cases, one's still a missing girl
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and now one's a homicide. John Kogut was brought in by the detectives as a suspect in the murder of
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Teresa Fusco and during that time he confessed to the murder of Teresa. >> He decided that he had to kill her.
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>> And then during the confession he implicated [music] two of his buddies. >> And when I saw the three men who were
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arrested in handcuffs, I thought to myself, "Who are these people? They're older. Who are they?"
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>> The theory was always it was three guys. >> Yeah. >> And the DNA didn't match any of them.
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>> No, it didn't. >> If they didn't do it, then who did it? >> Today we arraigned 63-year-old
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Richard Bilodeau for the murder of Teresa Fusco. >> And I said, "Okay. Here we go again."
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>> [music] [music] [music] >> First, 15-year-old Kelly Morrissey vanished into the [music] night. On June
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12th, 1984, she left her home after dinner and never [music] came back. Five months later, it was her friend Teresa
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Fusco. On November 10th, [music] 1984, the 16-year-old left her job at Hot Skates, a popular roller rink, never to
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[music] be heard from again. 41 years ago, trying to find them was a different job.
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Police had to look for real footprints, not digital ones, and it was [music] easy to vanish without a trace.
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Kelly Morrissey and Teresa [music] Fusco were growing up in the suburbs of Long Island. Vicki Papagno lived around the
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corner from Kelly in Massapequa. >> She actually was the first person I ever smoked a cigarette with, was Kelly.
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I was from [music] a divorced family, she was from a divorced family, we connected that way. She was like [music]
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my sister I never had. >> When they were in junior high, Kelly's family moved about 10 miles away to
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Lynbrook. By then, Kelly [music] had made some new friends. >> One of the first people that she met
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when she moved to Lynbrook was Teresa Fasco. >> Kelly's mother Iris and her then fiance
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Paul Olmstead watched the friendship develop. >> She was very good friends with Teresa.
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And uh so she she made friends very easily. >> She met her friends at malls and in
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person. Kids roamed around freely. No one could keep tabs on each other 24/7. It was a different time and Kelly
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Morrissey and Teresa Fasco were typical teens for 1984. >> Well, let's take them on a little stroll
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down memory lane. >> That was the [music] year Ronald Reagan was president. Ghostbusters and
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Footloose were the breakout hits. Madonna was climbing the charts and fashion [music] followed.
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It was the year Steve Jobs introduced something revolutionary. >> [applause] >> Hello, I am Macintosh.
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>> We didn't have cell phones, social media, so we were pen pals. We would get our stationery and we would just write
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back and forth. And that's how we communicated. >> When Vicky was visiting Kelly, she would
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sometimes hang out with Teresa, who also became her pen pal. >> Postmark 1982 from Lynbrook, New York from Teresa
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Fasco. And it says, "Dear Vicki, hi, what's up? Nothing much here. When are you going to visit Kelly again? When
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you do, call me, okay? How's all the boys there? They cute?" >> In Lynbrook, by far the [music] best
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place to meet boys was at Hot Skates, as advertised [music] here in 1984. >> What are you doing tonight?
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>> Uh, we would go to Hot Skates roller rink. We would go there, roller skate around.
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>> How important was Hot Skates in your life? >> Oh, Hot Skates was a big deal to
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everybody that lived in the area, even outside of the area. We would just go there and hang out with our friends
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[music] and listen to music. >> Lisa Kaplan, now Johnson, was Teresa Fusco's closest friend.
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>> We always We tried to dress very similar. We would buy the same clothing. We would wear our makeup the same.
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>> Did you guys confide in each other? >> About everything. >> Literally everything?
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>> Literally everything. >> No [music] one gave safety a second thought. >> You could walk absolutely anywhere and
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[music] not be afraid of anything in the dark, during the day, alone, with friends.
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>> And that explains why it was business as usual at the Morrissey [music] house, a
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couple miles away, when 15-year-old Kelly walked out the front door alone after dinner. She said she'd be back by
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9:30. It was June 12th, 1984. [music] Iris didn't give it a second thought. She and Paul were raising eight children
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together. >> Somebody came in and I heard somebody in the kitchen, and he yelled down, "I'm
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home." And okay, you could hear doors opening, closing, kids coming in and out, and I I it it was Kelly. It wasn't
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until the next morning when she didn't come down to go to school that I went down there and
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realized that her bed wasn't made and the clothes was still there and she hadn't come in.
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>> [music] >> And were you panicking at that point, Iris? >> Oh, yeah. And then we called the police,
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but [music] they told us that she wasn't missing 24 hours at that point and they
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really wouldn't take a up a report. [music] In those days they waited. >> Nassau County Detective Freddy Goldman
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would review both Teresa's and [music] Kelly's cases some 25 years later. He's retired now, but he agreed to walk us
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through [music] the timeline and the evidence from back then. At the time [music] of Kelly's
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disappearance, he says police found no reason to [music] think there was a crime. It seemed like she was a runaway.
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>> There's tons of missing persons cases on a daily basis. >> Is that how Kelly Morrissey's case was
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initially handled? >> yeah. >> At 15 years old, she wouldn't know how to do life unless somebody was there
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to help her. I don't foresee her ever just running away and not talking to anyone, not reaching out to anyone. So,
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I knew it was serious from day one. >> Months went by with no sign of Kelly. >> That had to be so tough.
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>> Oh, it was. I mean, everywhere I went every child from the back looked like Kelly and stopped to look to see if it
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was [music] Kelly. Um It was horrible. >> If [music] Kelly had been written off as
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a runaway and not a priority, 5 months later her case got a second look. It was November 10th. Teresa Fosco never
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showed up at Lisa's house for their sleepover. [music] >> I thought maybe she went to somebody
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else's house and so I called a few friends and said, you know, did Teresa come over? At at that point I still
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wasn't overly concerned. >> Teresa's parents were divorced. The next morning, her father Thomas had a
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scheduled visit and arrived at his ex's house to pick up his daughter. >> How soon did you realize that this was a
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problem? >> I know my wife and I looked at each other and said, something's not right
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here. We realized this is out of norm. What do we do [music] now? >> When did you become really concerned?
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>> I became really concerned when she wasn't ready for school on Monday morning.
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We walk to school every morning. Why wasn't she there? >> Monday came [music] and went. It would be almost a month
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before anyone [music] knew what had happened to Teresa. >> This is my daughter Teresa.
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She was my [music] precious little girl. >> For Teresa Fusco's father Thomas and her
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brother John >> We were happy. >> It seemed [music] as though the entire town of Lynbrook was out looking for
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>> How big was the search? >> Everyone and then some. >> Everybody >> Everywhere.
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>> Nearly a month later, not far from Hot Skates and near the Long Island Railroad
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tracks, >> [music] >> Teresa's body was discovered. Beaten, raped, and strangled. Buried
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under a pile of leaves [music] and wooden shipping pallets. Thomas and John are still haunted by
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where she was found. >> I walked over it twice. >> Yeah. >> I didn't know she was under the pallet.
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We just walked over the pallet. And I'm glad I didn't find her. That would have killed me.
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>> I never heard the word homicide. So, when two homicide detectives arrived at Lisa's house, she didn't yet
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understand what that meant. [music] >> And they said, "Well, we think we found her."
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My heart started to race. I I started to get excited thinking, "My god, thank god
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they found her." And then they told me that they found a body. At 16, it was life-shattering.
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>> When her body was found, it was a shock not just to the Lynbrook community, but I think to all of Nassau
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County. >> Anne Donnelly would grow up to be the Nassau County District Attorney. But
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before that, she had a childhood a lot like Teresa Fusco's. >> I used to hang out at hockey skates
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when I was a kid. I was in college when it happened. >> [music] >> It changed the way we saw the world back
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in the '80s. It changed all that. And not for [music] the better. >> These are news articles I collected
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throughout the years on this case. >> 41 years later, Vicky [music] Papagno keeps a sad scrapbook. It tells a story
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of losing her two friends, [music] Teresa and Kelly. >> This one, which includes both of them, Lynbrook
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girl missing, second from the village. >> Kelly had been missing for nearly 6 [music] months when Teresa was found.
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>> It's just too coincidental to me. I feel like whoever committed Teresa could have something to do with Kelly.
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>> You have two girls who went missing, and then one who is murdered. >> Yep. I was afraid to be home alone at night
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time. It was frightening because we had no answers. >> Investigators [music] on Teresa's case have very little to go
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on. No footprints, no fingerprints, no murder weapon. Hair samples were taken from Teresa,
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also a [music] sexual assault swab. But DNA testing had not advanced enough to find out who it belonged to.
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While looking for links [music] between the two girls, they zeroed in on John Kogut, a 21-year-old landscaper who told
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detectives he had dated Kelly for about a week. >> I've heard the name John Kogut before.
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It was early, right when she first started liking him or dating him. >> Kogut was asked about [music] Kelly's
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disappearance. He also was asked about Teresa's killing and denied any knowledge of it.
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Kogut agreed to come in and take a polygraph test. Four days later, [music] he did, and police told him he failed
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it. Kogut was interrogated through the night [music] and into the next morning. After
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nearly 12 hours of questioning, his denials changed. Nassau County Detective Joseph Volpe
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>> [music] >> wrote down what he said Kogut told him. That on the night Teresa went missing,
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Kogut was with John Restivo and Dennis Halstead in John's van when they saw Teresa walking away from Hot Skates.
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Dennis Halstead was known to investigators [music] back then, says Freddy Goldman. He had
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had some minor brushes with police. >> Dennis Halstead had an apartment adjacent to the Shell gas station where
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Kelly was last seen at that pay phone. We were told that Kelly hung out in that apartment frequently. She had the key to
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his apartment. >> It sounds like Dennis Halstead was viewed kind of as a bad influence on the
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younger kids in the area. >> It would seem, yeah. >> John Restivo was more of a clean slate.
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>> He was a working fellow. Although he was friends with them, he didn't have a a background like them. He didn't hang
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out in Dennis's apartment, or that we knew of. >> [music] >> Police took Kogut to the District
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Attorney's office, where he was videotaped. >> I want to talk to you about the death of Teresa Fusco.
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>> He was interviewed by Assistant District Attorney George Peck. He agreed to go on video.
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>> Camera rolling. Kogut detailed what happened to Teresa when she got into the van that night.
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Kogut told investigators that Teresa was raped twice by Dennis Halstead and John
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Restivo. When she said she was going to tell somebody, they couldn't let that happen.
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>> We decided that we had to kill and Dennis told that she had died. >> And what did uh did John agree to this,
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too? >> John didn't say nothing. >> And then, John Kogut describes how he killed Teresa.
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>> And then what happened after uh you got the rope? >> I um I wrapped it around her neck twice.
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And then I tightened it like this. And then her body went limp. >> John Kogut would later recant everything
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he told police. But on that day, Goldman says, investigators were confident they
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had Teresa Fusco's killer in custody and had the evidence they needed [music] to
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prove it. But later on that very same day, another teenage girl went missing. >> March [music] 26, 1985.
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When 19-year-old Jackie Martarella didn't show up to start her shift at Burger King, her older brother Martin
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knew something was off. >> She's very prompt. She was very dependable. And for her not show up, we knew there
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was something wrong. >> Most nights, Jackie [music] walked to work from the family home in Oceanside,
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a town a few miles away from Lynbrook. How would she get there if you're she's walking? What was the route she would
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take to go to Burger King? >> much straight down Long Beach Road. Uh >> Did you ever worry about her walking to
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work? >> Not really. No. No. >> Jackie had recently graduated from high school. She was working part-time and
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taking accounting classes, saving money to buy a car. How would you describe your sister?
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>> Describe her? She was um very girly. >> Complete with posters of teen pop stars
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on her bedroom wall. >> I remember Leif Garrett, whoever he was. >> I remember Leif Garrett.
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>> [music] >> There was posters of that. She was into dance. She liked doing that.
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She liked her clothes, very finicky with her clothes. >> And now [music] she was missing.
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So, what did you and your father do? >> Well, I think we called the police. And then
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they took notes. And then they started looking and and then those other two came up and
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they were, you know, saying, "Look what's happening here." So, it became everybody became interested.
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>> Nearly a month went by with no sign of Jackie. >> You know, all the worst thoughts go
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through your mind when something like that happens. And of course what happens happen.
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It's the worst of the worst. They found her body 26 days later in what would be a golf course.
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>> April 22nd, 1985. A man looking for golf balls in the high grass off the 17th hole found a naked
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body. It was Jackie. >> She was murdered obviously and discarded. >> According to former Nassau County
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Detective Freddy Goldman, Jackie was left the same way Teresa Fusco had been, raped and strangled.
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Initially, did investigators think, "Oh my god, these cases all have to be connected?"
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>> Yes and no, but with Kogut sitting there, it kind of, you know, it threw a monkey wrench in
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everything. >> John Kogut, the man who had confessed to killing Teresa Fusco, was in police
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custody. >> How could he be the killer if we had him in custody the same day that she went
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missing? So, obviously it wasn't him. Yeah, could it be a Halstead, Restivo? But no.
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>> Jackie's homicide was not going to be easy to solve. Her body was so badly decomposed, no DNA swab could be taken.
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>> I'm sure it heightened the the alertness and awareness of the community because
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now you know that there's somebody out there that's, you know, going after young girls.
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>> Kelly Morrissey was still missing. Police knew she had hung out at Dennis Halstead's apartment, but there was
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nothing more to tie Halstead [music] or Kogut to her disappearance. Was there any evidence that
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indicated that they were involved in in Kelly's disappearance? >> No. No. >> Teresa Fusco's killing was the only case
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police could pin down. By June 1985, John Kogut, John Restivo, and Dennis Halstead had all been charged with her
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rape and murder, >> [music] >> and all three pleaded not guilty. Kogut went on trial first. Later, Halstead and
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Restivo were tried together. >> I remember sitting in the witness box testifying and and the district attorney
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saying, "Please speak louder." >> Lisa Johnson was just 18 and a star witness. >> And here I am, you know, [music] sitting
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there very meek and and timid and in a room full of strangers testifying about my friend who was killed.
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It was difficult. It still is difficult. >> John Kogut offered an alibi, and according to a New Yorker magazine
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investigation, the van police [music] said was used in Teresa's abduction was actually out of
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commission and up on cinder blocks the day Teresa [music] went missing. But two hairs belonging to Teresa that
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police say they recovered from the floor of Restivo's van were too powerful to ignore, and Kogut's detailed confession
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trumped everything. >> I wrapped it around her neck. >> By February of 1987, Kogut, Halstead, [music] and Restivo had
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been convicted of the rape and murder of Teresa Fusco and sentenced [music] to more than 30 years to life.
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It had by [music] then been two long years for Teresa's dad. He and the rest of her family tried to move on.
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>> We thought, believe in me, that there was time for closure. We had gone to parents of murdered children. We had
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support, and they were looking for support, and we were looking for support and closure.
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>> But, there was no closure. What prosecutors had insisted was an airtight case against the three men was going to
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blow up spectacularly in 2003, nearly 19 years after Teresa was killed. More sophisticated [music] DNA testing
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became available. It told a different story. John Kogut, John Restivo, and Dennis
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Halstead's convictions were all overturned. >> Just 6 hours ago, after 17 years in
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prison, the murder rape convictions of three Long Island men were overturned following stunning new DNA evidence.
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>> And new [music] testing not only ruled out Kogut, Halstead, and Restivo, it pointed to someone else entirely,
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another unknown male. Everything Teresa Fusco's family and friends thought they knew about her
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killing and her killer was changing. >> Wait a second. There was investigations.
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We trusted the detectives. We trusted the police to do the right thing. [music] What do you How could they do
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this to us? >> After almost 18 years, John [music] Kogut, John Restivo, and Dennis Halstead
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were out of prison and in the arms of their families. >> I waited for this for 18 years.
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And I'm just I'm sorry. I'm just really I just can't believe it's happening. >> But their legal problems were not over.
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Nassau County District Attorney [music] Denis Dillon had decided to retry all three for the murder of Teresa Fusco,
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starting with John Kogut, who again pleaded not guilty. There was still his [music] videotape
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confession, and that became the centerpiece of the case against Kogut at his second trial in September 2005.
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>> We decided that I had to kill her. >> The confession, the prosecution argued,
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was more important than all other evidence, even the new DNA. >> When I saw the video, I go, "Whoa.
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It's looks like it's legit." >> But Kogut's defense attorney, Paul Castelliaro, says the video is
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misleading. As damaging as Kogut's statement sound, he says it's what you don't see on
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camera that matters. >> Part of it is, you know, it's staged. >> There is a detective
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>> sitting off camera, watching it, and monitoring it, and making sure it goes right. It's It's like a play.
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>> Here, Kogut struggles with names. >> Teresa Fusco? >> Teresa Fusco? >> Even his alleged accomplices' name.
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>> John Mostevelo. Dennis Shakir. >> And then asks for help. >> Who is this last name?
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Well, are you talking to uh Detective Alfano, who's also in the room? >> That kind of shows it was coerced.
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>> Kogut was an easy target, Castelliaro says. He had a 10th grade education and
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a substance abuse problem that Castelliaro says police [music] took advantage of.
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>> Tells him about his drinking, his drugs, all all the stuff that they can use against them.
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>> And then Castilero says they lied to him. The police told John Kogut that he failed a polygraph.
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>> No, John Kogut passed this polygraph test with flying colors. >> And even though Kogut had already told
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police over and over that he had nothing to do with Teresa Halstead's killing, Castilero says they convinced him he
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did. >> They told him he blacked out. He didn't remember. You know, this is what you
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did. This is where you took her. >> I didn't even [snorts] remember the next morning.
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>> Didn't remember what what had happened that night. Well, you remember it now, don't you?
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>> Yes, good. >> By the time [music] this video was recorded, Kogut had been in custody for
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18 hours, interrogated for nearly 12 of them, and awake for almost 30. >> At some point in time, you know, you
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want out. You give in. >> But the confession wasn't the only thing prosecutors would have to defend. They
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had to contend with the new DNA evidence pointing to an unknown male. So, prosecutors suggested that Teresa must
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have been with someone else right before she was abducted by Kogut, Halstead, and
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Restivo. >> Then all of a sudden she had a consensual sexual encounter. That's what
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they said. >> But investigators were never able to identify anyone who had been sexually
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involved with Teresa. And Teresa's best friend, Lisa, had to take the stand again at this trial to talk about it.
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And I mean, this is a tough question to ask, and I I want to ask it properly, but
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as far as you know, was Teresa even sexually active back then? >> Absolutely not. And we spoke about that,
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and that's not something that she was going to do before she was married. >> Lisa, once their star witness, was this
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time around undercutting their case. >> They went against their own witnesses and in fact we argued that she went from
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being a virgin to being someone who had a quickie in a skating rink where she worked. It was It was preposterous. It
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was demeaning. >> Did that make you mad? >> It did because it's not something she
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would have done. Ever. And I will go to my grave saying that Teresa was not having sex with anybody.
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>> Prosecutors did [music] still have the physical evidence from the first trial.
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The two hairs belonging to Teresa that police said they found on the floor of John Restivo's van.
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But that too, Casaleiro argued, was tainted. There was a science to analyzing whether the hairs came from
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someone dead or alive. >> They displayed a a certain decomposition that is only present
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when the hairs are attached to the head of a person who's deceased. >> That meant the hairs could not have been
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left in the van while Teresa was still alive, according to Casaleiro. >> We believe that they could went in and
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took them from the medical examiner's office and said they could found them in the van. In other words, they were
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planted. >> But in closing, prosecutors denied the hairs were planted. After Casaleiro was
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able to raise serious questions about the prosecution's case, Kogut's fate was in the hands of one person, a single
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judge, not a jury. Kogut had decided to take his chance with a bench trial. And after nearly 3 months of testimony, the
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judge reached a verdict. >> This is Judge Ort's decision. The court will not accept the confession
00:32:38
and accordingly finds the defendant not guilty of murder in the second degree under count one.
00:32:44
>> And what does that mean when the judge won't accept the confession? >> It means that the confession is false.
00:32:50
It is not credible. And that's what the judge found. He did not believe the confession.
00:32:56
>> Eight days [music] later, the prosecution formally dismissed the charges against Restivo and Halstead.
00:33:05
>> When John Kogut was acquitted, [music] I was devastated. Only because I've seen that confession of his over
00:33:12
and over again, and I believed then that he was telling the truth. >> It makes you feel like you got to hit in
00:33:18
the face with a freaking shovel. And you don't know how to get bounce back from that.
00:33:23
>> It was December of 2005. Teresa Fusco had been dead for more than 20 years, and now nothing about her case
00:33:33
could be laid to rest. >> It's for me, as the father, heartache. Heartache to go through it over again.
00:33:41
>> I felt as if the life had been sucked out of me. Everything that we fought for, everything that we
00:33:49
testified for, everything that was investigated, and all of the proof and all of the evidence meant nothing.
00:33:57
If they didn't do it, then who did it? >> Good morning. I'd like to thank my investigators and
00:34:04
my prosecutors [music] handling this case for standing here with me today. >> On October 15th, [music] 2025,
00:34:12
Anne Donnely, now the Nassau County District Attorney, had a startling announcement.
00:34:19
>> And after two decades of this case running cold, we have indicted Teresa's killer.
00:34:26
>> The FBI, [music] using the new science of genetic genealogy, had found a match
00:34:33
to the unknown [music] DNA. >> Today we arraigned 63-year-old Richard Bilodo of Center Moriches for
00:34:42
the murder of Teresa Fusco. >> [music] >> Nearly 41 years later, and thanks to genetic genealogy,
00:35:01
Nassau County DA Anne Donnelly was sure they had finally, finally found Teresa Fusco's killer.
00:35:10
>> Teresa's life was violently stolen from her more than 40 years ago. But the past is never forgotten.
00:35:18
>> Once the unidentified DNA sample was matched to 63-year-old Richard Bilodeau,
00:35:25
surveillance began. A few months later, prosecutors say, a straw in a discarded smoothie cup confirmed he was their man.
00:35:35
Bilodeau has denied the charges. At the time of his arrest, he was working at Walmart stocking shelves. At the time of
00:35:44
Teresa's killing, he was 23 and living close by. >> He was living with his grandparents.
00:35:51
It's about 1 mile away from Hot Skates. It's about 1 mile away from the Fusco residence.
00:36:00
>> He was a man who had seemingly always lived below the radar. >> Prosecutor Jared Rosenblatt.
00:36:09
>> Had he ever been married? >> No. >> Does he have family or close friends? >> He has a brother.
00:36:14
>> That he's close to? >> I I can't speak about how close they are. >> And does he have hobbies? Does this guy
00:36:20
do anything other than go to work? >> I think he gambles on sports a lot. >> In interviews we conducted with Teresa's
00:36:28
friends and family, no one recognized this defendant as someone who was ever associated with Teresa in 1984.
00:36:37
>> Authorities wouldn't speculate about how Richard Bilodeau may have come in contact with Teresa Fusco, but D.A. Anne
00:36:45
Donnelly says she knows he did. >> When you have a DNA match, a 100% match, we got the guy.
00:36:54
>> William Kephart and Daniel Russo, Bilodeau's defense attorneys, see it differently. What evidence are you aware
00:37:03
of that connects Richard Bilodeau to the murder of Teresa Fusco? >> The DNA. >> That's it?
00:37:09
>> That's it. >> And they don't find it convincing. >> It's being overstated and overvalued.
00:37:14
>> And what's more, >> this District Attorney's office, this police department, in 1985,
00:37:21
stood before a court and said these three men did this. And they had an ample amount of evidence to prove it.
00:37:29
>> Is that a concern that they're going to point to the fact that three men went on
00:37:34
trial, were convicted for this crime? >> Yes, I would assume that's what they're
00:37:39
going to say, but the difference now is we have science behind us, which they didn't have 40 years ago.
00:37:49
And to me, you don't beat the scientific evidence. >> But at John [music] Kogut's retrial in
00:37:57
2005, the Nassau County D.A.'s office had argued the [music] opposite, that the unidentified DNA taken from Teresa was
00:38:07
meaningless. >> The same D.A.'s office stood up and said, [music] "We still believe, based
00:38:13
on all of this evidence, that these men are responsible for Ms. Fusco's death." >> [music]
00:38:19
>> So, I don't know how now, in 2025, because you were able to put a name to that DNA, suddenly none of that matters
00:38:27
anymore. >> All of their lies against John Kogut, John Restivo, Dennis Halstead are going
00:38:33
to come back and haunt them during this retrial. >> Paul Casselliero, John Kogut's former
00:38:40
defense attorney, fears that Villegas' lawyers will put the blame on the three men who were cleared of the murder two
00:38:48
decades ago. >> They're going to have a trial in which I'm sure the defense is going to be
00:38:53
arguing they're guilty. >> And Casselliero says that's just more salt in the wound for John Kogut, Dennis
00:39:01
Halstead, and John Restivo. >> It's never-ending. What Nassau County did to them
00:39:07
>> [music] >> is just has no ending to it. >> All three men sued Nassau County. Two of
00:39:14
them were awarded damages. >> $18 million each to Restivo and co-defendant Dennis Halstead, both
00:39:21
exonerated a decade ago for the 1984 murder and rape of Lynbrook teenager Teresa Fusco.
00:39:29
But in Kogut's case, a jury found no wrongdoing by Nassau County police and gave him nothing.
00:39:36
>> Let me ask you though, if in fact Richard Villegas is convicted, will either one of you apologize to the
00:39:43
three guys who were convicted? >> No, because I don't owe them an apology. I wasn't even in the office at the time.
00:39:49
I wasn't a lawyer. >> You represent the office, yeah, but for the Nassau County DA's office.
00:39:55
>> Mr. Dillon did what he thought was right when he dismissed against two of them,
00:40:00
and I think, you know, they got their apology at that point. >> The idea that the District Attorney of
00:40:06
Nassau County can apologize to these three guys for what they did to them is outrageous.
00:40:14
>> While the Nassau County authorities say once again they have the killer of Teresa Fusco. Richard Bileau is not
00:40:22
facing charges in either Kelly Morrissey's or Jackie Martarella's cases. Both remain unsolved, leaving two
00:40:31
families in limbo. >> I mean, you're anticipating something and then [music] it never shows up. She
00:40:38
didn't have a bad bone in her body. She missed out on just living a simple life,
00:40:44
you know. >> And I look at women in their 50s now and think [music] >> [snorts] >> that could be Kelly. I mean, that's how
00:40:55
old she would be. >> When Richard [music] Bileau goes on trial for the murder of Teresa Fusco,
00:41:03
her father, Thomas, and her once best friend, Lisa, will be back in the courtroom for what they hope will be the
00:41:11
last time. >> Closure to me is that if this is the individual, then justice will be done.
00:41:17
It's just completely over. 41 years is over. Beginning and end. >> Do you hope? Do you think that it might
00:41:26
finally be resolved this time around? Or do you still have questions? >> I trust in the DNA this time. I am so
00:41:36
hopeful that there will be a conviction and we can finally put this to rest. >> 41 years afterwards.
00:41:46
>> It's a long time. It's It's a lifetime. >> Welcome to Post Mortem. I'm your host 48
00:42:20
Hours correspondent Anne Marie Green. And today we are discussing the cases of Teresa Fusco and Kelly Morrissey.
00:42:28
[music] Two teenagers, teenage girls who went missing in 1984 in Lynbrook, New York. That's a suburb
00:42:36
in Long Island. Now after a suspect confessed to Teresa's murder and then implicated two other men, seemed like
00:42:43
the case was closed. But about 19 years later, advances in DNA technology overturned their convictions and pointed
00:42:51
to another unknown suspect. Joining me today is 48 Hours correspondent Erin Moriarty. Erin, you worked on this case,
00:42:59
but over your years of working uh for 48 Hours, you've actually covered a number
00:43:04
of wrongful conviction cases. >> So have you, Anne Marie, and it is a passion of mine.
00:43:11
This case is yet another reminder of the cost of a prosecutor getting it wrong. When you convict the wrong suspects, not
00:43:20
only does that allow the real killer to go free, but often puts the family and friends through years of hearings and
00:43:27
trials. And that's the centerpiece of this story, because it's what the family and friends of Teresa, Kelly, and
00:43:34
another victim, Jackie, have gone through in the decades since their disappearances. And I should point out,
00:43:41
since 1984, so over 40 years. >> Absolutely. I mean, this is a nightmare for any family, but this process, it's
00:43:48
like sort of ripping the scab off over and over again. And really, you know, they're still waiting for a resolution,
00:43:54
which we will get to. But I want to remind everyone, uh listen, if you haven't watched or listened to this
00:44:00
episode, The Killing of Teresa Fusco, go check it out and then come on back so we
00:44:05
can talk about it. So, Erin, on June 12th, 1984, 15-year-old Kelly Morrissey left her home after dinner. She's going
00:44:14
to meet a friend, and she's last seen at a payphone near a Shell gas station in Lynbrook before she disappears. After
00:44:23
about 5 months, 16-year-old Teresa Fusco goes missing after she leaves her job at
00:44:31
a local roller rink. How unusual was it to have two teenagers go missing with just within a few months?
00:44:39
>> Amory, this was very unusual. What made it even more unusual, these two girls
00:44:44
knew each other. And back in the '80s, kids went out regularly, and they played late at night. It was a completely
00:44:52
different world when people still thought that bad things didn't happen. These cases, um, that happened so close
00:45:00
to each other, really did shatter the sense of safety in this area. I should point out that Lynbrook wasn't
00:45:07
a small town. It had a population of about 20,000 back in the '80s, and it was very close to New York City, but it
00:45:17
still was a suburb. One of our colleagues who worked on this story actually grew up very close to Lynbrook,
00:45:23
and she told us that Lynbrook felt like a small town because everybody went to the same movie theaters, ate pizza at
00:45:31
the same pizza spots, and it did seem like everybody went to this roller rink called Hot Skates, and that's where
00:45:39
Teresa worked. >> I mean, it kind of reminded me a little bit of where I grew up, you know, in the
00:45:44
suburbs of Toronto, and we had the roller rink that everyone went to, and every once in a while they would have DJ
00:45:50
night, and it would all be, you know, 15, 16, 14-year-olds, and everyone felt safe cuz it was just a bunch of kids.
00:45:58
But, you know, to talk about the case, when Kelly's mother, Iris, realizes that Kelly has not returned home, Iris and
00:46:06
her husband, they call the police, and then the police tell them that because Kelly hasn't been missing for at least
00:46:12
24 hours, they're not going to take a report. >> Investigators believe she was just a
00:46:17
runaway. They did not take the case that seriously, and they at that time found no reason to think that Kelly was a
00:46:26
victim of a crime. Kelly was last seen on a payphone. And so our thought is, well, why didn't the police find out who
00:46:34
she was talking to? Well, data for the payphones back then were not easily tracked.
00:46:41
Back in 1984, of course, there was no social media, digital footprints, >> Right.
00:46:47
>> no ring cameras, no text messages, no cell phone tower pings that cops could trace.
00:46:55
All of those things that we now kind of take for granted that help solve cases. >> Mhm.
00:47:01
>> Back then, it was boots on the ground. It was knocking on doors. It was word of
00:47:07
mouth, physically retracing the last steps of a missing person. >> So, in in fact, it wasn't until Teresa
00:47:15
Fusco disappears that Kelly's case actually gets a second look. This is nearly 6 months after Kelly went
00:47:22
missing. Teresa's body is discovered near Long Island railroad tracks. She's been beaten. She's been
00:47:29
strangled. She's been raped. And police start to look at the possible links between the two cases.
00:47:36
That is when they zero in on John Kogut. He's a 21-year-old landscaper. Detectives say that he dated Kelly for
00:47:45
about a week or so. And in the course of your reporting, I'm curious about whether you learned
00:47:52
anything else about him. >> So, they questioned him twice. The first time he denied any involvement or
00:47:59
knowledge of of either Kelly's disappearance or Teresa's murder. And then according to Kogut's former legal
00:48:07
team, and I should point out these are not the lawyers who represented him back then, but represented him when he
00:48:14
had a retrial. This is what they told us that police picked up Kogut for a second round of
00:48:20
questioning. They had asked whether he would be willing to take a polygraph, and he said yes.
00:48:26
When they picked him up, he told them he had been drinking and smoking marijuana.
00:48:31
The officers notified their higher-ups, but they were told to still bring him in
00:48:36
for questioning. Now again, what we've been told is that Kogut told police that at the time of Teresa's disappearance,
00:48:44
he he said he had an alibi. He had been hanging out with his girlfriend drinking
00:48:48
beer. And his girlfriend did corroborate that alibi. She even testified to that.
00:48:56
But obviously, like the police must not have believed him because they continued
00:49:01
to press him. And then after nearly 12 hours of questioning and 18 hours in police
00:49:09
custody, and keep in mind he had been awake almost 30 hours, that's when he made a videotape confession. He said
00:49:18
that on the night that Teresa went missing, he had been with two friends, Dennis Halstead and John Rostivo,
00:49:25
driving in Rostivo's van when they saw Teresa walking home from Hot Skates. She had gotten fired that night and left
00:49:32
early. Kogut then also said that after she got into the van, he he claimed that Rostivo
00:49:40
and Halstead raped her, but that he was the one who killed her. He gave stunningly specific details
00:49:47
about how he wrapped a rope around her neck. >> Well, that is what struck me about this
00:49:52
confession. The remarkable level of detail. And so you can't help to but to think who would make this up?
00:50:00
>> I'm going to be honest. It's a pretty convincing interview. Um and I talked to
00:50:05
Paul Cacialli about that. Now he is the attorney who represented Coget not the first
00:50:12
trial, but when Coget was tried a second time. He says that videotape confession
00:50:19
was staged. According to Cacialli, Coget was exhausted and just wanted the interrogation to stop. Cacialli says
00:50:29
Coget also disavowed that confession within a day once he talked to a lawyer. >> Mhm.
00:50:34
>> But as anyone who sees that videotape confession, that confession seemed to be the nail in his coffin at
00:50:44
trial. >> John Coget, Dennis Halstead, and then John Recivo. They're all charged with
00:50:49
Teresa's murder. All three of them plead not guilty, but then at trial police also testified that they recovered two
00:50:56
hairs belonging to Teresa in Recivo's van. And then of course they testify about Coget's detailed confession. All
00:51:04
three men, Coget, Halstead, and Recivo, they were all convicted and they were sentenced to more than 30 years to life.
00:51:14
But then nearly 19 years after Teresa was killed, there was a stunning twist in the case because of advances in DNA
00:51:22
technology. We saw it in the hour. What more can you tell us about how that unfolded?
00:51:28
>> Well, you know, what was interesting and very impressive is that the investigators early on did take a swab
00:51:35
um after they found Teresa's body. There was no DNA at trials back then, but they
00:51:42
took a swab. They couldn't identify it initially. Around 2003, there were more sophisticated testing and it told a very
00:51:51
different story. In this case, all three men were excluded by those tests and a complete profile of a fourth
00:52:00
unidentified man was present. So, as you can imagine, John Kogut, John Restivo, and Dennis Halstead's convictions were
00:52:10
all overturned at that point. >> This reminded me when I watched it of a case that I worked on uh for 48 hours a
00:52:17
while back. It was one of the first ones I ever did. Um it was about the murder of Angie Dodge. This is in Idaho Falls
00:52:23
in 1996. She was an 18-year-old. She just moved into her apartment, her brand new first apartment, and she was killed
00:52:29
in the apartment. Investigators found DNA at the scene, and then they start to zero in on a guy named Christopher Tapp.
00:52:37
After hours and hours of interrogation, he falsely confesses to being at the scene of the murder. And he spent many,
00:52:47
many years in prison. Eventually, he was released and later he was fully exonerated. Um and in the end, the
00:52:54
advances in DNA technology, genetic genealogy, eventually identified the killer. It was a man named Brian Dripps
00:53:01
who eventually pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison. Um but it really sort of got me thinking about the
00:53:09
way interrogations are conducted and whether anything has changed. >> Amory, there's no question that uh we're
00:53:20
seeing more and more cases like this. I mean, it breaks my heart because these officers think they have the right
00:53:26
person. They pressure them. They confess, and then later on, after these guys have all gone to prison,
00:53:34
um genetic genealogy or DNA >> Mhm. >> shows that they got the wrong guy. What I am finding, I think you are too, that
00:53:43
many more of these interrogations are being videotaped or at least audiotaped. And best practices
00:53:51
um include not interrogating someone for hours and hours. Um so I think it is better, but I don't think it's fixed
00:54:02
yet. >> Welcome back. Well, in 2003, the Nassau County District [music] Attorney, Denis
00:54:11
Dillon, decided to retry John Kogut, Dennis Halstead, and John Restivo for the murder of Teresa Fusco.
00:54:20
Uh starting with Kogut, who pleaded not guilty again. And this time Kogut decided to take his chances with a bench
00:54:27
trial, which means there's no jury, it's a single judge that is going to decide his fate. But now, as we've been
00:54:35
talking, there is new evidence that shows that the DNA did not match him. Or any of the other men, which means
00:54:43
that the prosecution needs a different strategy. What's their strategy in the retrial?
00:54:48
>> So the prosecution had to explain away that unknown DNA by saying, "Well, then
00:54:55
Teresa must have had consensual sex with someone before she was attacked and killed."
00:55:02
Remember, she was 16 years of age, and family and friends all told us that they were horrified when prosecutors rewrote
00:55:11
this narrative about Teresa. Um according to her best friend, Teresa had always wanted to wait until marriage to
00:55:19
have sex, and she wasn't sexually active. But prosecutors said, "Well, uh investigators had tested so many men in
00:55:29
the area without finding a match, so the DNA just simply can't be relevant. We would find that person if it was.
00:55:38
Um and they said it doesn't matter what the DNA says. We have John Kogut confessing. According to the
00:55:48
prosecutors, that was the most important evidence, even more important than the DNA.
00:55:53
>> So then, what's the approach for Kogut's defense attorney? You know, he has to try to convince a
00:55:59
judge to completely ignore this very detailed confession. >> And that is very hard to do, as we know.
00:56:06
Uh but Paul Castellano, who represented Kogut during the retrial, he was able to
00:56:12
kind of pull apart the prosecution's argument bit by bit. Uh for one thing, he says that that tape confession was
00:56:20
like a play. It was theater. Uh one detective was off camera monitoring him. And when Kogut, you actually see this,
00:56:30
when Kogut can't even remember the last name of one of the, you know, co-defendants, the officer gives it to
00:56:37
him. Um Castellano says that police lied to him about the polygraph and brought in an
00:56:45
expert who said in fact that he did pass the polygraph. And then there was the issue, if you remember, those two hairs
00:56:53
that the cops said that they had found on the floor of John Recevo's van. That sounded terrible. I mean, how would her
00:57:01
hair end up in the van? Well, Castellano argued that there was testing that revealed that those hairs displayed this
00:57:11
certain decomposition that is only present when the hairs are attached to a person who's dead. And so
00:57:20
he argued that he believed that the police took the hairs, this is awful to hear, from the medical examiner's
00:57:28
office, from the autopsy, and then put them in the car. Prosecutors, of course, denied that the
00:57:35
hairs were planted, but when you read the judge's decision, he was persuaded by the defense.
00:57:43
What's more, the judge found the confession not credible. So, in the end, Kogut's gamble paid off by having just a
00:57:53
judge and not a jury, because the judge found him not guilty of murder. And eight days later, the DA dismissed
00:58:03
the charges against Restivo and Halstead, and they were never retried a second time.
00:58:09
>> All three men initially sued Nassau County and police officials. They lost. And then John Restivo and Dennis
00:58:17
Halstead, they pursue another a civil trial against Nassau County and police officials without John Kogut, and they
00:58:26
are awarded $18 million each. Essentially, a million dollars for each year that they spend behind bars,
00:58:34
but Kogut receives nothing. Why did he receive nothing at all? >> Well, Anne Marie, we can't absolutely
00:58:44
say, but defense attorney Paul Casselliero believes that it was that confession that stopped him from getting money, but
00:58:53
there's nothing in the record. I should point out that Kogut didn't go completely empty-handed. He did receive
00:59:02
some money from a state fund, but it was uh much smaller than what his co-defendants got, uh Halstead and
00:59:10
Restivo. >> I mean, I sort of understand because kind of on one side, perhaps none of
00:59:16
this would have happened to all three of them if he did not confess, right? But then kind of on the flip side is he is
00:59:22
the one that had to endure all of these hours of this interrogation, not to mention spending all those years, nearly
00:59:31
two decades behind bars for a crime he didn't commit. I'm glad he got a little something. Do we know how all three men
00:59:38
are doing today? >> We wanted to interview all three. All three did decline. Restivo, uh according
00:59:45
to Castelliero, when he was convicted and went to prison initially had stayed in touch with the girl he went to high
00:59:53
school with and she stayed a friend and when he got out of prison, he she was in
00:59:59
Florida and he went there and from what I heard, he stayed there. But, according
01:00:04
to Barry Scheck, who co-founded the Innocence Project in New York, um told me that to this day Restivo still fears
01:00:15
that the police could come back and arrest him. Think about that. >> Wow. >> Yeah.
01:00:19
>> 40 years afterwards, you never really get your life back. >> On October 15th, 2025, this is nearly 41
01:00:27
years after Teresa Fesco was killed, Nassau County uh DA Anne Donnelly announces that they have indicted her
01:00:35
killer. Thanks to the advances in genetic genealogy and that unidentified DNA sample that was found was matched to
01:00:42
a 63-year-old. His name is Richard Bilodeau, I think. Is it Bilodeau or Bilodeaux? Because
01:00:50
it's it's written Bilodeaux if you're a French speaker. >> Anyone who watches the hour will know
01:00:55
that I changed my pronunciation because everyone gave us different pronunciations.
01:01:01
The prosecutors told me it was Bilodeau. >> Okay. >> Uh but when I interviewed the defense
01:01:07
attorneys, they said it is Bilodeau and the defense attorneys say that's how he pronounces it. And so, I'm going with
01:01:16
Bilodeau, but you do hear me in the hour pronounce it Bilodeau, Bilodeau. >> Well, I mean, do we know anything about
01:01:23
this person? How he could have, you know, crossed paths with Teresa? Just anything?
01:01:28
>> Uh, we don't know a lot. Remember, Amory, this is pre-trial. Nobody's sharing a lot. Uh, the prosecutors
01:01:36
wouldn't reveal or couldn't reveal, um, whether there was any evidence that Billydo and Teresa Fazzari knew each
01:01:46
other. None of her friends had ever heard the name. Even his own defense attorneys don't know much about him.
01:01:53
They said he does like online gambling. What we do know from prosecutors is that
01:01:59
the FBI matched the unknown DNA sample, the one that had always existed, to Billydo in 2024.
01:02:08
They were able to confirm his DNA was a match after they obtained a discarded straw from a Slurpee cup that was
01:02:17
connected to Billydo. At the time of Billydo's arrest, he had been working at a Walmart and he was stocking shelves,
01:02:25
but at the time of Teresa's killing, he was 23, older than what she was, and living close by to her in Lynbrook. Um,
01:02:36
Billydo has pleaded not guilty. And if he doesn't take a plea deal and he does go to trial,
01:02:44
then we're going to learn a lot more because the prosecution has, get this, 150 boxes of electronic discovery to go
01:02:53
through. >> And then, what about Kelly Morrissey? I mean, is there any kind of update or
01:02:59
advance for her case and her disappearance? Anything? >> No. Um, we had mentioned at the
01:03:05
beginning of this podcast that Kelly Morrissey's initially had been viewed as a runaway.
01:03:13
Um, and now, according to retired detective Freddy Goldman. It is now viewed as a homicide, and he said that
01:03:24
officials do believe the cases might be connected, but we know that Bilodeau has
01:03:29
not been charged in Kelly's case. >> And in the hour, we also learn about another victim. She's a 19-year-old. Uh
01:03:37
her name is Jackie Martarella. She goes missing in March of 1985 in Nassau County. Her body is found. She
01:03:46
has been raped. She's been strangled, just like Teresa Fusco. Are investigators looking at Bilodeau in
01:03:53
connection with Jackie's case? >> Bilodeau has not been charged in the case of Jackie Martarella, but according
01:04:01
to what we heard from Freddy Goldman, back then, and even to this day, they had another suspect in mind. Uh they
01:04:10
brought him in for questioning, and he moved to the south of France, and that seemed to end
01:04:16
the investigation. >> You know, one of the things you mentioned at sort of the top of this is
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that this really underscores the kind of prolonged and protracted pain that families feel.
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Teresa's family thought they had some sort of resolution, and then nearly two decades later, that all blows up for
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them. >> What really struck me was talking to Teresa's friend, Lisa. Um she told me just how involved she had to
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be in this case. Keep in mind, so she testifies at Cogut's original trial. She has to
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testify at Reccevo and Halstead's original trial. There were other hearings that she said she also had to
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uh testify. Then, Cogut is retried, and she's probably going to have to testify again if Villa Jew goes to trial. It's
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never ending. That's what Teresa's father told us. That's what Teresa's brother told us. The idea that her
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murder has never been resolved. It just It just makes everything so much tougher
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for this family. >> Yeah. I mean, I don't think you ever really move on, but but you do sort of
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figure out ways to cope. But how can you cope without a resolution? >> I know that Kelly Morrissey's family
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talked to us because they're hoping if somebody knows something and they see this story, [music] maybe maybe they'll
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come forward. It's 40 years. It's time. >> Aaron, thank you so much. >> Talk to you soon, Amalie.
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