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[Music] [Music] The Hamptons is a playground for the rich and the famous couple hours from
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Manhattan money runs like water fancy cars huge Estates security gates seclusion in October of 2001 Ted Ammon
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was brutally murdered in his East Hampton [Music] Mansion there was nothing that was
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really Disturbed in the house there was no ransacking the perpetrators had opened
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up the door to the bedroom walked in and approached the bed this was an individual sleeping somebody who's
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jumped on and doesn't have a chance to do much fighting back he was beaten about the head and probably fairly early
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on in the assault was dragged off the bed the individual over him is literally raining blows down on his head until he
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struck some 30 to 35 times which is a conservative estimate Ted Ammon I thought he was the
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greatest he's the All-American guy 6'4 goodlooking smart got a personality that'll knock your socks off this guy's
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doing Billion Dollar Deals it's not surprising generos ended up with a person like Ted Ammon it fits the
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profile of the the person that she had been looking for generosa was my first cousin we grew up together in California
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there was never a doubt in my mind that josa would succeed when she went to New York Ted saw that fire in her eye don't
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really think that he knew what he was getting in for I sincerely think that they were very happy together at first I
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think they were best friends they were partners and then it just got uglier and uglier
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she was every bluecollar guy's dream she was a woman divorcing in a prime of her life she had everything
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going for a guy like me Danny Pelosi walked into generosa's life just from nowhere I walked in I got a beer at the
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bar and the BART tender looked at me and he says hey buddy I think you're in the
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wrong place Danny and generosa come on he's a street guy you kidding me I was in love
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with this woman Ted ammon's dead there's a lot of money at play my first thought
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when I heard about the murder was where were the children that's what went through my
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mind this story has everything it's got murder Mega Bucks anger Affairs it's got
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glamour it's got poverty it's got revenge and an ending you won't believe it it was the princess and the POA let
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me turn back into a frog please it's easier to be a frog murder in the Hamptons [Applause]
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[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] it has all the ingredients of a Hollywood drama a horror story in a
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fairy tale setting complete with love and hate money and murder it's a good story it's a big story I mean bad news
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is a good story Kieran Crowley a reporter for the New York Post has written a book Almost Paradise about the
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murder of Ted Ammon this guy was tall dark and handsome he was brilliant Ted Ammon had a middle class childhood spent
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side by side with his sister Sandy he loved playing the trumpet he breezed through Bucknell
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college as a frat boy and lacrosse player he married and moved to London to practice law he was so sharp that he had
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a tutor and he studied for and took and passed the bar exams without going to law school that's how smart he was when
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his first marriage ended less than 10 years later Ted was looking for an apartment in New York City he booked an
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appointment with a real estate agent named generosa Rand he didn't show up he was being flaky he blew her off she
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called him the next morning and basically cursed him out and said you know who do you think you are generosa
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was tough and outspoken and Ted Ammon wanted to meet her in person she told him I'm not really a real estate agent
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you know I'm an artist and a photographer and he found her fascinating she was charming and Sparks
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flew right away they met on kind of rough terms generosa's Cousin Al Le gay I think when they got together they were
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they were they were pretty pretty interesting couple because they're both strong people Ted and generosa married
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in 1986 Ted went on to make tens of millions of dollars on Wall Street before he quit that was when he and
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generosa adopted 2-year-old twins from the Ukraine did they seem happy seemed extremely
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happy a few years later the Ammons abruptly left New York to move into this rambling Stone Manor House in the
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English Countryside she was trying to pull Ted out of New York City in the very busyness of his life Ed Meyer was
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one of generosa's lawyers she persuaded him to start to relax to enjoy the family enjoy the English Countryside but
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the couple didn't enjoy it for very long Ted took frequent trips back to New York
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and josa became convinced they were not all for business she began telling friends Ted was having an affair by the
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summer of 2000 they were both back in Manhattan but living separately generosa had filed for divorce and was looking
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for more than $1 million a year in living expenses between 150,000 a month was not that much believe it or not when
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you're talking about that kind of income josa evidently wanted to hurt Ted and not just financially she was in the
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business of riling up riling up her husband before the divorce was Final she found a new boyfriend Danny Pelosi and
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he was everything Ted was not she came from a world of enormous wealth been to every
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continent and I've been to FL [Laughter] yeah it all started in the fall of 2000
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when generosa hired Danny to supervise the multi-million dollar renovation of her new
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townhouse I ended up staying at the job instead of driving all the way back to Long Island and one morning generosa
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showed up and found me sleeping in the truck and she said none of her work is sleep in the truck she turned around and
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said you come stay at the stand hope I'll get you a room to stand St hope the Stan hope is one of the swankiest hotels
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in New York generosa and her two children were living there during the renovation of course I was flirting I
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was in the middle of a divorce and this was a very attractive elegant lady who told me she was getting
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divorced she told me she hadn't had sex in 2 years before long the two were dating
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his sister Barbara watched as the woman who had everything decided she had to have Danny she was crazy about Danny
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that was the first thing I picked up on right away but they were a good match they were perfect match I thought
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because she was very good to him and she genuinely cared about him and just to think she wanted something to do with me
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blew me away it was the biggest ego trip in the world Danny Pelosi is a high school dropout and former drug and
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alcohol abuser with a wrap sheet filled mostly with drinking and driving charges
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but things were looking up he'd no longer have to worry about drinking or driving the next thing I knowed I was
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driving around in a limousine putting a wine menu in front of me that's not even
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written in English you know I drink Bud Light it's that easy that summer Danny became a fixture
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in the Hamptons did he look funny in that mansion in East Hampton he didn't know
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what to do he didn't know how to act he would sit out there sometimes on the front porch with his cell phone and his
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coffee and say to me can you believe this can you believe we're here did you fall in love with her I mean were did
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you love her yes yes I absolutely did I absolutely fell in love with her but generosa's divorce from Ted Ammon was
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consuming most of her time by the summer of 2001 the world's worst divorce the divorce from hell now for like a year
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and a half they had no communication between each other instead Danny says the Ammons used private detectives to
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find out what they needed to know it was like spy versus spy there generos spy on
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Ted Ted spy on generosa there were people falling out of the trees at the beach house somebody fell out of the
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trees yeah video recording what were they recording me and generos in the backyard that'll ruin the moment oh yeah
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oh yeah right there but the real victims by all accounts were Ted and generosa's
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two children the parents were so involved in the divorce they forgot about the kids and it wasn't fair it
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wasn't right by October 2001 after more than a year of bitter feuding Ted and josa Ammon were close to settling
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generosa would get about $25 million I think he wanted to get it over with and they all needed to get it over
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with but just before the divorce papers were to be signed Ted Ammon was found bludgeon to Death In His East Hampton
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mansion and the investigation began [Applause] shortly after 5 in the afternoon on
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October 22nd 2001 Ted ammon's battered naked body was found in his East Hampton Mansion the entire assault probably took
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place in less than 5 minutes prosecutor Janet Albertson he had clearly had covers or bedding thrown over him you
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can see the smears from the blood stains on the side of the mattress and on the frame he's got defensive wounds to the
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backs of his hands which clearly indicated that he had been down on his hands and knees at some point with his
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hands over his head moving back and forth to try to protect himself there were far more potential suspects than
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there were solid leads there was Ted ammon's ex-wife there was also his girlfriend who was one of the last
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people to see him alive and there was the business partner who discovered ammon's body but it didn't take long
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before police focused their attention where they usually do on the spouse in this case a very angry very scorned
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generosa Ammon she despised him Danny's Sister Barbara saw the hatred this was an ugly divorce this was a ugly divorce
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but Dany was also a suspect especially when police found out that he was the one who'd hired a company company to
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install a video surveillance system in the East Hampton Mansion which Ted Ammon used when generosa wasn't there did he
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say where he wanted the cameras put he left that basically up to me but he wanted a general location making sure
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all the certain areas were covered this here is a live the system was installed by John cundle 6 months before the
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murder it allowed Danny and generosa to watch whatever was going on inside the house even at moments like this when Ted
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Ammon thought no one was watching all they had to do was log on to their remote laptop computers all I know is
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that you went to the thing you hit beach house and boom there was the beach house
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that's what I know but he says the system was installed because generosa wanted to spy on Ted as their divorce
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got more and more nasty the system was installed originally to prove that Ted was
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removing items from the house but police started to wonder if Danny and generosa
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could see when Ted Ammon was alone in the house would they know when to make their move I have to ask you this
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because people have have said this about you and this is an awward I did not murder Ted Ammon you knew what the
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question was I know what the question was I've been trying to scream it since day one but Danny was a suspect from day
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one because the heart of the surveillance system a computer heart hard drive that records images from the
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cameras had been removed from its hiding place in a remote part of the house the
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first thing you have to say is who would have known it was there uh much less known how to remove it I never had
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anything to hide but Danny claims he has an alibi for the night Ted Ammon was murdered he can prove he drove out from
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Manhattan to Long Island very late Saturday night to attend a wedding the next day he stopped at his sister's
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house which is about an hour from East Hampton where Ted Ammon was killed I know that he arrived at 120 at about 2
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a.m. Dany met up with a friend he says they went out for beer Barbara's daughter Kelly remembers hearing Danny
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come home a little later did you talk to him yeah he wanted to know where the blankets were so he can go to sleep and
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you looked at the clock yeah and what time was it it said three I don't remember the other two numbers clear at
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all but I just know for a fact that the first number was they were not in or around the vicinity
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of Middle Lane and East Hampton at the time Ted Ammon was murdered we had what I viewed as NTI Alibi for both of them
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but Danny and generoso remained the focus of scrutiny and suspicion and soon they gave everyone even more to talk
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about generosa the wealthy Widow and Dany her blue collar boyfriend got married in January of 2002 just 3 months
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after Ted ammon's murder did you worry about about how it would look no I had nothing to worry about did she worry
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about how it would look no no n know and then generosa surprised everyone when she moved with her two
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kids to Danny's Hometown Center mariches a nice town but hardly a Millionaire's playground bu of crazy kids she wanted
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her kids to have a family she wanted me to be around my kids my kids lived 5 minutes from here all she wanted was a
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family she wanted him to be close to his family Joanne mat who was generosa's full-time housekeeper says her boss was
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happy with her new life long as she was with Danny she didn't care if she was in
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East Hampton over there it didn't matter to her she was happy put buddy on the boogy
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board but the fun would soon end it was mindblowing it was Earth shattering it was unbelievable just
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months after they were married generosa learned she was dying of breast cancer she was just
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46 it was just like what else can go wrong how are these kids going to make it through this not just me Joanne says
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generosa and Dany tried to make the best of the time they had left he got along great she thought he was really funny
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they would play Scrabble all day long because now she was getting you know she was sick but
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the investigation was continuing and generosa and Dany were now the prime suspects it wasn't long before their
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marriage started to fall apart under the pressure of it all everything was going
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haywi in July of 2003 after a year and a half of marriage generosa left Dany and
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moved with her two children back to the East Hampton Mansion where she would spend the last weeks of her life even
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after she was sick she wanted to make sure that Dany was protected because her words to me was this was my husband and
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my life Danny had nothing to do with this and I'll make sure that Dany is always protected josa Ammon died in
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August of 2003 leaving Dany as the lone suspect I was freaking out I was freaking out big
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time because that's when I realized this is real it was part of her wish it was part of
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her talks that we had it made perfect sense to Danny Pelosi at the time going to the stanh
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Hope Hotel for a farewell drink with his wife's ashes she told me to take her remains and go to the bar and sit in the
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booth that we sat in every night she told you she wanted you to do that she told me just like I'm telling you right
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now did that seem weird to you generosa was different she was different photographer Robert calus
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found Dany sitting in a booth drinking a beer that's the box for the ashes yeah is Garden State Crematory and there was
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a guess it was a wedding ring set up on the napkin and he ordered her a drink yep cin paon go let cigarette
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there when the New York Post ran the picture the next day Danny started to have some regrets were you embarrassed
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by that was I embarrassed by that picture they showed yes absolutely but Danny Pelosi would soon
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have a lot more than his image to worry about do you look over your shoulder for
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cops I don't have to look over my shoulder they fly over my house they drive by my house they harass my family
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they harass my friends Danny had become the lead suspect in the murder of Ted Ammon ultimately when you looked at
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everything together it just always came back to him finally in March 2004 after a 2 and 1/2 year investigation Danny
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Pelosi was arrested and charged with murder we had some pretty powerful circumstantial evidence uh but we you
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know did not have but no Smoking Gun you didn't have DNA didn't have fingerprints
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didn't have blood and by no means was this a slam dunk good morning Danny Pelosi hired one of the best defense
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lawyers money can buy Jerry charel you know he may not speak The King's English and and he doesn't
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have a PhD and in fact he's a high school dropout but uh uh he's not a killer I ain't do
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nothing there was no physical evidence linking him to the murder no forensics no Witnesses and charel insists that
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Dany who was only generosa's boyfriend at the time of the murder had no motive because he had no right to ammon's
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wealth I will tell you that there was absolutely no motive here there was no Financial motive and there was no other
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motive of any kind there were a lot of people out there that had a lot more to benefit from Ted ammon's death than
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Danny in fact according to attorney Ed Meyer Danny actually got along with Ted Ammon he liked Ted Ammon I know he liked
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Ted Ammon but everyone knew generosa hated Ted Ammon in fact she hated him so much
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she didn't want his family caring for her twins after her death generosa had no family of her own she was raised an
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orphan her mother died of breast cancer when generosa was just 10 her father was
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an Italian sailor she never met eventually she was taken in by Al Le's family when I remember her as a little
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girl she had a pretty traumatic tragic life when she left here and she went to New York
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it was like she closed that chapter of her life as she entered the final chapter of her life generosa had to pick
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a guardian for her children she thought Dany was unsuitable so that left only one person a 57-year-old British Nanny k
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m do the kids like her no they tell you that yes Dany spoke to generosa about how the kids felt about Kay it I'm very
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upset more upset than you know Danny had a habit of recording his private conversations he says to protect
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himself legally I'm very concerned for your children it's not good it's not good at all Danny you seem to forget I'm
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so alive these are my children I make the decisions about my children they've lost their father not in losing their
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mother I'm not going to allow them kids to be raised like you are I'm not Danny you and I don't how to raise
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children I'm not raising my children or you raise your children take carries out
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my wishes with my children period when generosa Ammon died in August of 2003 she took the answers to a
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lot of questions with her to the Grave is it possible that generosa who made no secret of her hatred for Ted Ammon could
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have done this let's ask that question again is is it tough to answer go with that question again
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there's a certain amount of logic to that I mean here's logic logic there's and the next thing you know what they're
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going to say I had part of it well okay I'll ask you that did she ask you for help I have nothing to say that's not
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the same as saying no I have nothing to say but prosecutor Janet Albertson insists
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Dany had a lot to say which was great for her not so great for him he was his Own Worst Enemy as far as I'm concerned
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uh he did a lot of talking and of course anytime a defendant does a lot of talking it's it's not good for him it's
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good for the people let's go to trial I have had nothing to hide [Music] so this is a very sweet photo yeah and
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there he's giggling he's never seen his father no only pictures his father's never seen him nope last year when Danny
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Pelosi was arrested for murdering Ted Ammon and jailed to await trial he was trying to move on with his life he was
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expecting a new baby with his new fiance Jennifer zolnowski what's it like here by yourself it's
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horrible everything I see reminds me of him but now there is another woman in his life Janet Albertson the prosecutor
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Danny Pelosi is a is a drinker he's a gambler he's a petty Thief Albertson can call him whatever she likes proving he's
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a murderer is a little more difficult we're happy to be finally underway in this case and we're hoping that the jury
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sees through the defense [Music] as the trial begins all Albertson has is a lot of circumstantial evidence to
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offer as proof that Dany killed for one of the oldest reasons in the world money
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I think that money is certainly at the top of the list and not a very exotic motive is it no most murders aren't for
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exotic motives except in novels the jurors have no trouble believing that he saw a future with generosa a rich one
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that would be richer with Ted Ammon out of the picture he wasn't willing to give
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it up it was all about the money all about the money they can see why Pelosi might have
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wanted ten Amon killed but it's a little harder to convince them how he could have done it you didn't have anything
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that said absolutely he was there at that time or around that time when the murder occurred so who says Danny Pelosi
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was at the murder scene according to to Janet Albertson one very important person Dany himself who she says
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confessed to a number of people I think he was his Own Worst Enemy and he's the only one who didn't realize it but don't
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you have to be awfully stupid to admit to a murder yes that's why the defendants are presumed to be innocent
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not intelligent stupid people do stupid things and that's how we catch them the jurors heard from a devastating parade
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of witnesses a contractor Danny worked with said Pelos was talking about killing Ted Ammon a full year before the
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murder Danny's ex-girlfriend testified he confessed to her and said Ammon quote cried like a [ __ ] during the beating
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she said when she asked Danny why he did it he said because I have a monster in me but this man may be the most damaging
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witness of all it's not just what he says it's who he is Danny Pelosi own father is a witness for the prosecution
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Pelosi's father testifies that Dany asked him just hours after the murder how to dispose of something where no one
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could find it the prosecution thinks Dany was trying to get rid of evidence from the crime scene especially that
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hard drive with all those pictures from the night of the murder that unit recorded 24 hours a day so of course it
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would have recorded the image of the murderer coming in going out and removing all of the evidence from the
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house how do you feel when you see him I love him but for jurors it isn't what his
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father said that was most telling it was what Dany said as his father was leaving
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the courtroom Dany snarled at him in front of the jury and said I hate him you saw that you saw Dan Danny snap at
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his father what effect did that have on you that had a tremendous effect on me not not just his relationship with his
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father but his the anger and the rage that that suddenly came up just like that in 35
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years of being a criminal defense lawyer um I never saw a father come in voluntarily as he testified and give
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evidence against his Sony birthday to you happy birthday to you Jerry charel argues and his father
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have a LoveHate relationship have you my even P GES these pictures were taken at a
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family reunion just one month after the murder but charel points out it was a full year before dany's father took his
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story to the police and charel tells the jurors that each of the witnesses had a
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reason to lie about Dany confessing no one has come in here without an ax to grind um an agenda that's hidden or not
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a motive uh to falsify do you believe Danny was capable of doing this now I don't another relative Danny's Sister
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Barbara was subpoena by the prosecution generosa had hired her to monitor the surveillance system on her laptop and
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spy on Ted in the Mansion she says she saw something suspicious earlier in the evening during a routine check and that
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when Dany arrived the night of the murder she asked him to log on and check it out I think I
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heard Danny because I told him to go on the computer that night because he honestly did not ask me to turn it on
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but Albertson says Dany had his own reasons for logging on to the computer that night I think what he wanted to
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know was was first of all when T Amon was at the house I think he also had an interest in
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knowing whether anybody else was there we would like the opportunity to present the jury Janet Albertson has spent weeks
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telling her side of the story now it's Jerry Shell's turn to tell his don't um you know rush to judgment um don't make
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any snap judgments wait until you see the whole case charel hammers away at the fact that there is no evidence that
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Pelosi was even at the crime scene Ted Ammon died at a time when Danny Pelosi by the prosecution's
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own evidence evidence that you heard earlier this week was not on Eastern Long Island and and uh as far as I'm
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concerned that's the case Ted Ammon ate dinner at this restaurant paid for his meal and left at
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around 9:30 p.m. he then went to a beach near his house at 9:44 Ammon made what could be the last phone call of his life
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to his girlfriend he said he saw something that scared him and he was heading back home that phone call is the
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Cornerstone of char gel's defense some of us might walk into a bad neighborhood feel uncomfortable and leave that's one
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thing but uh to have what seemed to be a confrontation or near confrontation I think is significant charel says someone
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could have followed Ammon home from the beach and killed him the timing of the call fits neatly in to char gel's Theory
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time of death is somewhere around 3 to 4 hours after the consumption of the food
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according to charel Star witness Dr Werner Spitz a world-renowned scientist there was still enough undigested food
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in ammon's stomach to prove he could not have lived more than 4 hours after eating Dr Spitz insists Ted Ammon was
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dead by 1:00 a.m. and charel proves Dany was miles away from East Hampton during
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that time his cell phone records show he was driving from Manhattan to his sister's
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house of course the prosecution's medical experts say Ammon could have been alive much later giving Pelosi
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time to get to him when do you think Ted Ammon was killed I think that probably the closest estimate I could give would
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be around 3:00 in the morning but as the trial wears on All Eyes turned to the one expert who really
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knows if Danny could have killed Ted Ammon Danny Pelosi himself he's feeling the pressure as he told me in a phone
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call from jail I'm afraid to look at the jury I'm afraid I'm afraid to do anything why cuz I'm too emotional
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everyone says I'm too emotional and everybody also says he talks too much there's no sensor relief
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let's go to trial I had nothing to hide we all know I didn't do nothing here but
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now he says he'll be quiet for once and he won't take the stand in his own defense I'm going to follow the advice
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of my attorney because it looks like I don't even have to testify at this point but can Danny Pelosi really keep
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his mouth shut what do you think all of a sudden at about 4:00 in the afternoon there he was sitting on the stand
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talking to [Music] us a late and surprising development in the Daniel Pelosi murder trial WCB today
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was the day Jerry charel hoped to hand his case over to the jurors thanks but there's a surprise witness one charel
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never wanted to call Danny Pelosi who decided against Char gel's advice to take the stand is there something that
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you do as an experienced lawyer um on mornings like this before your guy is about to face the Wolves yes try not to
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throw up my mouth dropped to the floor I couldn't believe he took the stand I think I turned around I said you're
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kidding Pelosi told us by phone from jail he knew what was at stake from the moment he took the oath when I got on
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this thing the first thing I had to do was get my heart back in my jacket I was really hoping to keep him on the stand
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long enough that he would start to lose what little control that he had you were
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trying to get under his skin oh absolutely absolutely she got under my skin a few times and I know I came back
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a little AR again a few times but the woman was attacking me did your opinion of him change when he was on the stand I
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don't think it did he didn't say anything to hurt himself he was very controlled I saw him grit his teeth
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several times while he was on the stand Dany dropped a bombshell it's a story he's been telling us off the record for
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about a year but he's never said said it under oath before he says generosa asked
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him to kill Ted Ammon for her but he refused and if you believe Danny generosa's Alibi that she was in her
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Manhattan apartment the night of the murder was a lie in fact according to Dany generosa left that apartment before
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he did this woman told me 100 times she was going to go kill her husband 100 times maybe this time it happened but
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100 times she left and kill her husband while he was on the stand Danny only suggested generosa was involved but
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later in a phone conversation he went further much further I kept my mouth shut because my wife generosa married me
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to keep my mouth shut that was the whole reason to keep my mouth shut but once again Dany could not keep his mouth shut
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he said the evidence shows generosa did it but not alone it totally adds up look
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at how many times the man had to get hit it's I hit you four times you're dead what does that say that tells me that
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there's a person with not enough power hitting somebody with a weapon with a weapon that was hard enough to hurt them
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but not hard enough to stop them somebody like generosa thank you and not alone how many other people two and I am
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not going any F were you one of them I'm not going no get the hell out of here had nothing to do with it generosa was a
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person filled with rage and hatred in his closing arguments Jerry charel repeated one question where was generosa
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Ammon that night I think she was right there surely you don't think she killed Ted Ammon I don't think she was there
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alone but she wasn't there with Danny Pelosi this is Danny Pelosi's trial so this jury doesn't have to decide Beyond
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A Reasonable Doubt whether generosa was physically there or not there the fate of accused killer Danny Pelosi hanging
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in the balance tomorrow morning a jury they've been listening to the evidence a long time after more than two months of
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testimony the jurors got the case late on a Friday night all through the weekend both sides camped out and waited
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his first day of deliberations the Danny Pelosi jury hit the ground running has come and gone and no verdict yet this is
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a jury that's essentially sifting the clues and I'm very happy that they're doing this with the care and
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deliberation that that seems to be occurring inside the Jury Room the jurors were troubled by the lack of any
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physical evidence there was no eyewitness there there was no murder weapon recovered that had his
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fingerprints on it and that was reason for Dany to be optimistic if they do their job properly and they weigh the
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evidence I'm going to be sitting home for Christmas with my son that I still haven't
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seen But late on a Monday afternoon after three long days of deliberating the jury reached a verdict Danny Pelosi
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was convicted of second deegree murder when he heard the verdict the man who could never shut up was speechless and
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began and softly crying when that jury came back in there fed guilty I was in shock in the end the jurors could not
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ignore that missing hard drive that could have recorded images from the murder the person
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who committed the crime is the one that took the hard drive out and disposed of it and who was that person oh that was
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definitely Danny poosi why do you say definitely I should really say it was definitely by request quest of or Danny
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Pelosi you had to know where it was you had to know where it was and there was the matter of the millions Ted ammon's
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Fortune jurors believe Dany was worried he might lose access to the money if generosa signed a proposed divorce
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settlement as scheduled and it was that weekend that Ted had to die because Monday the agreement was supposed to be
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signed this was a case where it really came down to you know all the witnesses and all the evidence and when you pieced
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it all together there was there was no other individual that fit he fit he fit but some jurors still believe there's
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room for more suspects he wasn't by himself there were voids in the patterns of blood spatters there had to be people
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standing on one side in fact even after the verdict some jurors still aren't sure what role Pelosi played nobody
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could put him there so how did you satisfy by yourself then eventually that he was there I I kind of thought
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somebody else maybe helped him maybe he didn't go there himself maybe he had some friends all kinds of things go
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through your mind but do you believe now today as we sit here that Danny Pelosi killed Ted Ammon if not directly he had
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through someone else you think he was there I'm not sure of that still to this day yes but in the end the jury voted
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that whatever his exact role was that night Dany intended to kill Ted Ammon and took part in the murder Pelosi was
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sentenced to 25 years to life in prison I'm not doing it for 25 years listen to me loud and clear I am appealing this
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issue and on the appellant circuit it will be heard I guarantee that but at least for now the man who went from the
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world of blue collars to the world of Blue Bloods will'll have to get used to the World Behind Bars
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