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[music] [music] >> At the end of the day, I I put my son to sleep, and uh I went to bed.
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And I remember my phone going off, and it was my father. There's been an accident. Your mom's okay. The ambulance
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is on the way. And I was like, and I just ran out the door. I lived right next door. I had no idea
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what happened until I got over there. Soon as I walked in, you could see right here. She was lying
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on the bed. The blood was just all over the floor, the side of the bed. Where's your dad at this time? He was on
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the phone somewhere, maybe downstairs, and I couldn't really see what he was doing.
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And then I grabbed a towel off the floor, and I held a towel on her head. I just remember yelling to him to please
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help me, and and I remember asking her, please, Mom, just like squeeze my hand. Did your mom respond to you?
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No. Do you remember asking him what happened? Not that night. At one point, I remember him saying he
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was putting the gun away under the bed, and and she sat down, and the gun went off.
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Did you know at the time that he had also been shot? I remember his hand being wrapped up.
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I didn't know if he was just holding a towel or what he was holding. He had shot through his hand when he
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shot my mom. He just said it was like this freak accident. And we thought like, well,
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who's going to who's going to shoot themselves? He never wavered from his story that it was an accident.
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I'm Trooper P.J. McDurmin, we're here at the residence with the homeowner, Bruno
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Racuoglia. Racuoglia. Why do you think your father was so open about talking with the police?
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I think he was trying to prove that he was, in a sense, So, we were both in bed,
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and I reached over, I grabbed it. My wife was sitting on the bed on that side. I was on this side,
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and I pulled the trigger by accident. My sister, Melissa, died Saturday morning.
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I'm worried about the girls. Their mother is gone. My dad, everyone felt horrible for him.
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[music] That's his wife of 25 years. I just lost my mom, and I was probably going to lose my dad.
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Did you expect [music] that your father would be charged with something? I thought maybe negligent homicide
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because he was negligent with a gun. I just went like this. He didn't spend a single night in jail. And not every
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shooting >> [music] >> is a crime. You really do look at circumstances. But apparently they did,
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and they were convinced that they couldn't prove a case. I was reviewing all of the open case
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homicides, and [music] this one caught my attention, and we just went down that rabbit hole of
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putting all the pieces together. And alarm bells went off when I saw a surveillance system in evidence.
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No one had [music] looked at this. This [snorts] is the last time she's ever seen.
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That time of year, their window was open, so you could [music] also pick up sound from inside of the bedroom as
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well. We were able to hear >> [music] >> their last conversation together. And then a gunshot goes off.
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There's so many twists and turns. And this is the story for generations that we have to tell.
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And that's pretty sad.