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[Music] Joey's missing he's somewhere it's got to be somewhere Hey where's Joey have you
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heard from Joe this isn't like him to not call me [Music] back there's something really
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wrong let's go back to November M 12th 2016 a bunch of people were going out to New York City Joey would go into
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Manhattan a good amount he would meet all of our friends there he had hundreds of friends
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hundreds of friends Joey always had this positive outlook on life when you were with him
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you felt like you could fly he was a an athlete L sports bright future smart kid that night we went to the Gilded
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Lily the Gilded Lily is in the meat packing District it's a lounge he has Club type
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music it's kind of high-end everyone dresses up were you drinking we were drinking
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how would you describe Joey he looked fine he didn't look like he was even buzzed
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3:30 or so the night was ending so everyone exits I remember Joey on my left and
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these girls were looking at him a certain way and he was looking back at me and just smiling like you know that
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he was interested I get approached on my right side by two guys and they try to start
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some conversation with me Joey's on my left and they kind of form a group on that side he jumped in a cab and went
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off with these two guys why do you think he did do you know I just don't know but
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I guarantee they're saying that they have a penthouse apartment there's girls this guy's dad's a
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jeweler and that jeweler was a jeweler to the Stars you're talking about Oprah Winfrey you're talking about Jennifer
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Lopez he sold an engagement ring to Melania and Donald Trump Saturday night came and
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went I can't get in touch with them has your son ever gone a whole day without texting or calling you Noe I started
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getting phone calls from a bunch of our friends have you heard from Joey have you spoke to Joey Joey's with you right
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they thought he was at my house what [Music] happened so I went on Instagram I went
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on Facebook I called everyone on my phone we go and we just start looking for them Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday
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everyone was still trying to get a clear-cut answer as to what was going on sources say 26-year-old Joseph communale
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came to this building early Sunday morning with friends why why were you there why did you meet them why did you
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go out that night you were invited to go to sudden place you would want to go there it's like its own private Enclave
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that only money can penetrate commun Al's father reported him missing when he never came home
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what's now going through your mind the worst the worst yeah what do you think happened in
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apartment 4C something went terribly terribly [Music] [Applause] [Laughter] [Music]
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[Music] wrong 48 Hours what happened an apartment 4C reported by Aaron [Music] [Music]
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morti I met Joey freshman year of college we've been best friends ever since Joey was one of my best friends my
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best friend best friend everybody called him their best friend but I was his best friend Joe com
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and aly's Father Pat knew his 26-year-old son well and at first he wasn't worried when he couldn't reach
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him the morning after Joey went out with some friends on Saturday night November
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12th 2016 I know it sounds crazy but in New York things don't really start until
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late it's nothing unheard of for kids to come home at 6:00 in the morning and I figured he's
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sleeping he was sick earlier in the day looking back Joey's friends like Steven naso will tell you that Joey never even
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intended to go out that Saturday night I think he took a nap for like 3 hours but
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then Joey's College buddy pram Daka baru a part-time promoter texted and offered
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Joey VIP treatment at the Gilded Lily a club then located in the Chic meat packing District in downtown Manhattan I
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was working so I'd be able to take care of everyone that came in did you ever worry about him I
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worried about Joey because I loved him but I knew that you know he always surrounded himself with good people
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Alisa laeto dated Joey Kelli on and off but mostly on for 5 Years first at Hoffer University and later when Joey
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became a sales associate at his father's security company and Alisa became a teacher he is like the rest of us he
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wants to have fun doesn't want any problems but that particular Saturday she and Joey like a lot of longtime
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couples were taking a break we had a little bit of like a disagreement and I was like you know what I just need a
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little bit of space like I'll talk to him in the morning so Joey headed into Manhattan
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from Stanford Connecticut we hop on the May Parkway shoot down in New York City Joey was with Steven nasso and they met
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up with a group of friends it was always a good time to meet people and that's why Joey and them came out to Guild them
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tonight as the club was closing you could see Joey and his friends exiting on surveillance
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video it was early Sunday morning and the crowd emptied onto the street that's when Joey began talking to three women
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standing outside the club then out of the blue two men joined them the men did not know the women and they didn't know
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Joey and his friends either there's 6 or S million people in New York City and they cross paths with us at that point
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Steven borrowed Joey's phone and stepped away from the group when Steven turned back Joey and the group were gone and
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this new group that he had met somebody said hey you want to go to a friend's apartment in suton place and continue
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having some fun Veteran New York crime reporter Murray Weiss covered the Joey Kelli story when it first broke and is
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now working for 48 hours so Joey went along leaving his phone behind with his friend thinking I'll get
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it tomorrow no big deal they just jumped in a couple of cabs and off they [Applause]
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went Steven got word that Joey had gone to a party uptown at someone's apartment
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so he headed home with Joey's phone hours later on Sunday afternoon back in Steven's apartment Joey's phone began
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ringing it was his father he said Hey where's Joey I said he stayed in the city and he was like all right well
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something happened um find him for me so then I went to Joey's place and he wasn't there did you talk to him every
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day yeah every day talk about the Yankees and the Rangers and so sorry Steven got in touch with pram who
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Tracked Down the phone number of a guy named Larry who had been at the party Larry told us that he doesn't know where
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Joey went that's when the vast network of Joey's friends got to work homing through social media searching for any
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scrap of information friend Mike Mullen says they pluged Larry's phone number into Google and got a last name and
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actually his Facebook popped up Lawrence dilon is this the kid yeah that's the kid we were with last
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night Max was the one who really put everything in motion Max branchinelli was perhaps Joey's closest friend he
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manages a restaurant but when he heard Joey was missing he turned himself into an online detective did you ever try to
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track down or retrace somebody's steps before using social media no you're in a panic and you're trying to find your
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your friend so show me where you started so I went on Instagram here and why Instagram why would you start there
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Instagram you can click on the location of the place and it will show people that posted a picture there from that
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place here's what Max did he began using Instagram's locator function for the Gilded Lily looking for users who had
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posted the previous night and that morning he kept his eye out for Joey as I was scrolling I landed on this picture
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and why did this catch your eye this caught my eye because I happened to know him in the middle by total coincidence
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Max spotted a friend Alvin but that's not the only reason he stopped at this photo I know the type of girls Joey
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chases their dark features and I just had a punch I screenshotted the picture and I sent it to the group of the guys
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that were out at the club with him the night before and what' they say they're like yeah it's that girl right there on
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the right and I was like wow that woman had also gone to the Sutton Place party that night Max called his friend Alvin
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who had her phone number so I then hit her up do you remember being with Joey last night like we can't find him he's
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missing and she told me like yeah we were with him last night she told him that when the party
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ended early that Sunday morning Larry dilon and Joey walked her and her friends to an Uber she told me they
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waved and he looked like he was going back inside with Larry but when Max called Larry Dilli own he said Joey did
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not go back inside the building and he's like he left with the girls he left in the Uber with the
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girls those were two very different stories at this point I'm not sure who's lying to
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[Music] me how does a 26-year-old man simply disappear Joey konell was part of a
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close-knit loving family with a younger sister Alexa and parents Pat and Lisa he loved going to city he did it
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all the time he loved it you know he'd go to Ranger games he'd go to the Yankee games he'd go to the Giant games Pat
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common Al lives in a Tony part of Connecticut but he's a bronx kid at heart he moved here met his future wife Lisa
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and founded a successful security firm that he later sold for more than $400 million but that meant nothing now that
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his only son was missing how important is family to you Pat yeah family's important
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that's that's everything tell me about his relationship with his dad I have never
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seen a person admire their father so much I've never seen a father admire their son so much they were
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inseparable by Sunday evening with Joey now missing about 10 hours Pat phon Larry dilon who had been at the Sutton
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Place apartment with Joey Larry says they walked the girls out to the car and that's the last they saw them
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but then dilom provided one small additional detail about Joey that to Pat seemed off he said the last I heard he
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said he was going to get cigarettes did that make sense didn't make any sense cuz if you talk to his his friends I'll
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tell you that he never bought a pack of cigarettes in his life Joey smokes cigarettes from time to time but he
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never bought them that that's why it doesn't make any sense Pat thought so too he decided to file a missing
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person's report so I said all right let me go to the Stanford PD by then Pat had Larry
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dillion's phone number the on duty Sergeant called dilon who denied knowing where Joey was but he did provide the
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names and numbers of two friends at the party James rackover and Max Gemma dilon
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also provided the address 418 East 59th Street in Manhattan a building that calls itself
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the Grand Sutton the Grand Sutton is a luxury condo in one of the wealthiest sections
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of New York City an apartment 4C was home to 25-year-old James rackover you're not expecting an issue in suton
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place suton place is a is a beautiful place to live no one would disagree over the years the neighborhood's been home
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to a parade of celebrities including Marilyn Monroe Michael Jackson and Rockstar Fredy
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Mercury what could go wrong on the Upper East Side and do you know anything about
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Larry dilon or James rackover or Max Gemma at that point you know nothing about them but as the days passed the
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police would find out a lot more about the three young men all in their 20s who partied that morning with Joey the three
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young men in the story Are Young men are privileged Larry dilon worked in real estate and came from a well-off New
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Jersey family that owned thoroughbred horses Max Gemma was a computer software salesman whose father was once the mayor
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of Oceanport New Jersey and had been in business with Jared Kushner president Trump's
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son-in-law but no one appeared to live a more Charmed life than James rackover who was living in Sutton plays his
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father Jeffrey who had a much larger apartment in the same building on the 32nd Floor specialized in getting one of
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aind pieces of jewelry for the world's rich and beautiful I grew up in the same town
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with Jeffrey rackover we grew up a block apart and while we weren't close our families knew each other he not only
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cultivated becoming a jeweler to the Stars he wanted to be among them he was friend friends with Jerry Jones me the
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owner of the Dallas Cowboys he came to know Oprah his apartment has photographs of himself with all these personalities
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James enjoyed the good life he was an aspiring model working in the insurance business loved boxing and even had a
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boxer named gloves of course I think Joy had an opportunity to go to a fancy part
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of New York City into a fancy apartment and he went along hey and there were those three young ladies along for the
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ride Jenna ssy Katie Conroy and Samantha Guardiola but all that mattered to Pat was finding his son he had already filed
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a missing person's Report with the Stanford police but also wanted to alert the New York City cops so at 9:00 a.m.
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Monday morning some 25 hours since anyone reported seeing Joey Pat was at the 17th police precinct where he told
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NYPD detective Yan Castro everything he knew the detective C I still remember saying let's go to the building and we
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jumped in the police car when they arrived at the Grand Sutton detective Castro asked to view the building
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surveillance video and then he starts reviewing video they asked me a couple times to come in to identify if that was
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my son [Music] so we did at some point you see your son so sorry Pat was overcome when he spotted
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son Joey and Larry dilion walking the three women out to the curb but then what do you
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see we see him come back into the building so you see Larry dilon and your son walking back in the building and
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what did that say to you they're lying there's a problem here remember Larry dilion had said Joey did not go back
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inside the building it was all too much for Pat detective Castro asked him to wait at
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the 17th police precinct so as I went outside to make phone calls the porter started to bring garbage
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out and I ran back inside and I said to the police don't let the garbage go make
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sure you search all the bags just kind of had that sense that these guys were lying there could be something in the
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garbage and sadly he was right inside those bags police discovered Joey's bloody
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pants his shirt and his driver's license also tossed in the trash a special chain Joey always
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wore given to him by his father I said to myself I don't think he walked out of the building
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[Music] [Music] alive 14 hours after Joey konali and Larry dilon were seen on video walking those
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women to their Uber surveillance cameras caught James rackover taking his father's mercedesbenz for a drive with
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the help of nypd's network of cameras detectives were able to track some of his movements they quickly put in rack
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overs mercedesbenz license play and Bing Bing Bing it started showing up going down the FDR
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Drive the car went South around southern Manhattan it then made a turn into the Holland
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Tunnel that led out to New Jersey but detectives could not pinpoint precisely where the car eventually stopped they
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needed a break and they soon got it from Larry dilon he agreed to meet with them
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and they sensed that there was something that he wanted to say and so the detective said to him you know what do
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you want to tell us we have a missing boy here his family you know wants to know what happened to
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him on Tuesday dilom began talking the party at the apartment in the wee early hours of Sunday morning had been Lively
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he said one of the women videotaped some of it on her phone there was cocaine and
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plenty of drinking dilone and rackover even competed to see who could give the best lap dance but by 6:45 a.m. the
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women left in that Uber and that's when cameras captured dilon and Joey walking back into the building and up to
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apartment 4C where dilon says a fatal argument erupted Larry dilon tells the police he has an exchange of words with
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Joey communal that Joey says something like James got the cocaine you know I got the cigarettes what have you brought
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to the table and kind of pounded his hand on a table and Larry dilon admitted to the police that he just flew into a
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rage and slammed Joey knocked him down and hit him a few times dilon says that when he began
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punching Joey his friend Max Gemma was asleep on the couch then dilion says rackover a boxing fan who took pride in
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his chisel physique jumped right in and according to Larry James start's also beaten the crap out of Joey who's now
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defenseless and gurgling because he can't hardly breathe commun alley lawyer Bob Abrams has heard dillion's
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confession he claims that after he had beaten a defenseless Joey and almost killed him Max woke up they got so very
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nervous because rakov was now beating the crap out of Joey that they would do anything rakova said and this is really
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difficult for me to talk about because what they did and how they did it is just so horrific dilon says he
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told Gemma to leave the room and that's when dilon says rackover began stabbing Joey the stabbing ended Joey's
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life dilon says Gemma left the apartment and had no involvement in the murder he says rack over then drag Joey's
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lifeless body into the bathroom he tries to dismember him with a serrated knife dismembering somebody is not an
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easy thing to do and rackover was not able to do it while they plotted their next move
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they began a frenzied cleanup of the apartment mopping up Joey's blood with bleach and paper towels all the while
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Fielding calls from Joey friends and his father you're talking to Larry dilon and your son's still in the
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apartment and they act like there's nothing wrong yeah incredibly evidence shows that
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rackover and dilon took time out to eat placing a delivery order then as shown on building surveillance cameras they
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explored the basement looking police say for a way to get Joey's body out of the
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Grand Sutton without being seen then they had another idea what they do next is totally
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insane as Darkness settled on the city dilon claimed he moved Joey's body now wrapped in a comforter to the ledge of
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Rover's fourth floor window while rackover moved the mercedesbenz into position on East 59th
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Street when rova gave him the class sign daon pushed the body uh out of the window four
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floors and nobody saw it we're we're talking about a upscale apartment Midtown Manhattan and nobody
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saw it the Grand Sutton faces the Queensboro Bridge in Manhattan and it was dark it fell into an area where
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there may have been some bushes and concrete and then when nobody was looking after
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de Leon came back down they stuffed the body into the trunk of the car and then they drove
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off Laria told them that they had driven the body down to Oceanport New Jersey and that they had deposited him in a
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wooded area behind a florish shop it was an area that dilon was very familiar with he grew up in Oceanport a jersey
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short Town some 60 miles from Manhattan he admits to helping take the body and to participate in digging I don't want
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to call it a grave because it's not a grave a hole and then dumping Joey's body in a hole but right before they
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were going to cover up the hole rackover took gasoline and started to pour it over Joey's body and in fact
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did light Joey's body on fire after dillion's confession police raced out to Oceanport and discovered Joey's
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burned body in a field behind the florish shop exactly where dilon had said it would
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be 2 hours later Sergeant Yan Castro arrived at Pat common Al's home in Stanford you heard a car door
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closed I popped up and I saw detective uh Castro I already knew yeah that was it what happened that night did you do
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it James rackover and Larry dilon were arrested and charged with second degree murder what happened early Sunday
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morning did you did you St Max Jemma who remembered dilon insists had nothing to
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do with Joey's death was arrested later but he was not charged with murder he was charged with hindering prosecution
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and tampering with physical evidence Gemma was granted bail all three men pleaded not guilty
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even Larry dilon he challenged his confession saying police had ignored him when he informed them he had a
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lawyer but the biggest shock was yet to come when it was revealed that James rackover who seemed to live such a charm
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life was not who he claimed to be James rackover wasn't really James rackover was it
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no and it just seemed like there was always more to learn about James more terrible
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things to the outside world James rackover was a wealthy young Heir and would be model living in the lap of
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luxury on suton place but the man that Larry dilon claims is the ring leader in Joseph common Al's vicious murder is not
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at all what he appears to be James rackover was not his real name detectives discovered James
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rackover was not the son of celebrity jeweler Jeffrey rackover police say James rackover is also this man James
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Bowden from Brower County he's an excon from Florida a world away from the underated wealth of Sutton plays and
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James Bowden has a WRA sheet dating back to his teens he spent nearly a year and
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a half in prison for second deegree burglary 3 months after his release in September
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2013 after moving to New York he reportedly met Jeffrey rackover at a gym they were both working out and they kind
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of hid it off surprisingly the multi-millionaire Bachelor then in his mid-50s soon invited the 22-year-old
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James to live with him in his lavish Grand Sutton apartment on the 32nd Floor and if anyone asked why the two were
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suddenly living together Jeffrey explained it this way Jeffrey rackover told his closest friends and relatives
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that one day there was a knock on his door and a young man was standing at the door and said you don't know me but I'm
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your son Jeffrey even took the extraordinary step of allowing James to change his last name to rackover James
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claimed he was Jeffrey's biological son these are the documents for name change they put this in a legal document James
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rackover said Jeffrey rackover is his biological father he lied in this document didn't he James lied in that
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document and Jeffrey rakova confirmed the information commun Al family attorney Bob Abrams says it was all an
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act they're not related they are not related Abrams alleges there was a sexual relationship between the two but
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jeffy's lawyer categorically denies it what's more James's defense attorneys Rob candoo and Maurice cirar say they've
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only seen a fatherson relationship Jeffrey rackover provided structure in the life of this young man
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Jeffrey paid for James's education and helped him find a job he even paid James's nearly $4,000 a month rent when
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in early 2016 James moved into apartment 4C at the Grand Sutton after James was arrested for Joey Kelli's murder Jeffrey
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paid at least initially for James's defense attorney what does James rackover face if he's convicted of all
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charges he faces spending the rest of his life in jail charged with second deegree murder and other crimes James is
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set to St on trial first before Larry dilon and Max Gemma cirar has a unique strategy he says James is guilty of
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covering up a murder but not of committing one you were asking this jury to separate the murder from other pretty
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terrible acts trying to cut up the body getting rid of the body burying the body
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burning the body it is tough but but they are separate things they say it was Larry dilon who killed Joey in October
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2018 2 years after Joey's murder James Rover's trial began opening statements today in the murder trial of James
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rackover but Jeffrey James's biggest supporter and surrogate father did not appear in the
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courtroom it was a much different scene for Joey whose family and friends packed
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the courtroom every day it's been the worst part every day Pat was the first witness and his
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emotional testimony quieted the courtroom I know it affected the jury it affects the jury in any murdered case
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prosecutors painted James rackover as a monstrously callous killer playing this phone call recorded in jail where James
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brags to a friend I don't know if you been Fallen but I start trial September so I'm looking at being home around
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October is my bre's going to be up there bro like my weight when I hit the street
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they're gonna be like yo this kid just beat this Rocky and he's home oh my God prosecutors called to the stand
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women who had attended that party benis and Katie Conroy but parts of their testimony helped the defense Katie
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in particular said dilom was the one brandishing a knife he was using it to do Coke off of the women uh painted a
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picture of him being pretty quick to use this knife for any variety of tasks James's defense lawyers also point out
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that he had nothing to gain but everything to lose by killing Joey James knew that if Jeffrey ever found out that
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a dead body had been discovered in his apartment that was the end of their relationship and that had to be factored
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into account as well when you consider why James felt so compelled to get that body out of the
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apartment after more than a week of testimony prosecutors had a strong case proving the cover up but there was
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nothing that directly pointed to James rackover as Joey's killer they seem to need something or someone more and sure
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enough they announced that they had a star witness who was going to take the stand
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[Music] prosecutors hope to Seal James rack over's conviction by unleashing an 11th
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Hour witness Lewis rugiero a close friend of James rackover the new witness turned out to be the troubled son of a
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very very popular New York television morning anchor woman named Rosanna Scot popular and well connected Good Day New
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York I'm Rosanna Scot Rosanna Scot is as Hometown as New York gats and her 24-year-old son told the court that he
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met James because of his mother's friendship with Jeweler Jeffrey rackover the day after Joey kali's
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murder rugiero said he was working out at the gym when James called him desate to talk Lewis testified that James
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looked strung out he had bags under his eyes and he said that James told him I've done something awful there was a
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kid in the apartment lren de Leon got into a fight with him kind of knocked them out and then James says I got my
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own licks in there and I didn't want a dead body in my apartment so I slid his throat we then put him in a comforter
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threw him out the window drove him 60 miles and buried him in a grave and then he adds don't worry about it because I
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bleach clean the entire apartment and nobody will know about it rugiero testified he thought James was just
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making a sick joke but the reaction in the courtroom was very different gasps came out of half of the room that was
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filled with Joey's family and friends you could see the jurors actually recoil when he used the word I slid his throat
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it was a stunning moment because rugiero was the first witness who directly implicated James rackover in Joey
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Kelli's murder the testimony by Mr rugiero was very damaging but defense attorney Maurice cirar maintains that
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ruo's testimony was riddled with factual errors rugiero testified that my client
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slid his throat Joseph comunali did not have his throat slit cirar stuck to his defense that rackover is guilty of the
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cover up but not the murder on cross-examination the defense attacked rugiero he had a lot of issues attorney
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Robert cendo in the fall of 2016 he was in the throws of as bad a drug problem as you could have rugiero admitted on
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the stand that he had been spending 12200 $ a day on marijuana oxycotton xanax and cocaine he never called police
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to tell them about James's confession there were a number of reasons to think that Mr rugiero might not be the person
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you want to hang the Hat of a murder conviction on the prosecution rested soon after ruo's damaging
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testimony the defense then presented only one piece of evidence the ring reportedly warned by Larry dilon when
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the fight broke out and why is that ring so important the ring had a sizable dent
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in it and if you conclude that he hit Joseph so hard that he dented it that certainly uh is a fact that we would
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want the jury to consider and it certainly speaks to who might have committed murder and who might not
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have in his closing argument cir cars had one last surprise he showed jur 4 minutes of video where James could be
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seen in a building elevator and then in Jeffrey Rover's bedroom where Jeffrey is
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sleeping sir cars argued that in those four minutes when James was not in apartment 4C dilon alone killed
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Joey 4 minutes is plenty of time but prosecutors have a different theory that James was looking for cocaine in jeffy's
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bedroom didn't find any and the fight broke out when he returned to apartment 4C
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empty-handed after 10 days of witness testimony and evidence the jury got the case just got to get
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Justice that's really it now it's a waiting again on Friday November 2nd 2018 after nearly 5 hours of
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deliberations the jury announced it had reached a verdict the former James Bowden of Florida now James rackover
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from New York was convicted on all counts for the murder of Joey Kali the verdict was greeted with relief
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and tears I want to thank the Manhattan District's attorney's office I couldn't be more proud of the
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NYPD and all Joey's friends and everybody else who supported us over the last 2 years I can't wait to
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get these other two sons of to go down just like this ass part of my language this picture is me and Joey in
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Manhattan those who knew Joey best like girlfriend Alysa labr this is actually one of my favorite pictures it just
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shows how much I love him are left with their memories I definitely thought I was going to marry him one day honest ly
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um he was just a beautiful person inside and out and my life without him has been
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crazy Joey's mother Lisa can barely speak about her only son so this was our last family photo
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together what do you think when you take a look at Joey just miss him every day as a way of remembering Joey some of
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his friends got tattoos with a number nine which is the number Joey always wore when he played Sports I do have
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one but of course Pat common alley just had to get the most elaborate tattoo can
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you see so your son's always going to be with you yeah I said I don't want you better make sure it looks just like them
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and it does honestly I never saw a kid cry never one time it's ironic I'm making up
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for it he was a special kid he really [Music] [Music] was [Music] [Applause] [Music]