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Cody, you have to do this.

With every fiber of your being, you have to do this.

And protect my things.

Don't let them be infiltrated, please.

There's not anything hidden,

but that will only make things worse for me.

And I'm already at the end.

Deputies are searching for 29-year-old Grant Amato.

They're calling him a person of interest

and say he may be driving a white Honda

with tag number reading L1GH7.

They say he is considered armed and dangerous.

Yeah. Yeah.

All right, first Sierra 23.

29-year-old Grant Amato remains in custody

as a person of interest.

Deputies considered him armed and dangerous

when they began searching for him yesterday.

Grant Amato was picked up by deputies at a hotel room

after three people found shot and killed

in Chuluota Friday morning.

He is in investigative detention at this point

and not under arrest yet.

My life was easy.

He was obsessed with her.

It's a heinous crime.

I didn't do any of this.

OK.

When I hear the name Grant Amato,

I think about how compulsions can turn into obsessions

and how that can lead people down a very, very dangerous,

very, very dark path.

I've handled dozens of these type of cases.

And I've never seen anybody so calm.

His voice was very mundane.

It was very--just normal.

Abundantly normal.

Surprisingly normal, I think,

is what immediately comes to mind.

Well, I mean, my...

I wouldn't say creepy, but maybe just a little odd.

- Hi, Colin.

How are you? It's been so long.

I know. It has been a while.

I'm doing good.

Just maintaining as usual,

dealing with the stresses day to day.

How about you?

All right, so I'm going to switch it to the other way.

Give me a second.

OK. That's the cell door.

And then that's your toilet, sink area.

And then that's my bunk up there.

That is everything that I own.

My name right now is just--

it's just right there.

And then this is your window.

That's your ventilation is right there

is that little slit.

And that is about it.

A little 8 by 10 space

because it's all that you have.

Great.

You and I have been writing letters and emails

and phone calls for four years now.

What do you think you're going to get out of this project?

Probably a lot of headaches.

In the Amato household, you had

Chad and Margaret, the parents.

And then you also had Grant and Cody.

Grant was 29. Cody was 31.

Standard operating procedure for us for these murder cases

and for any serious case is to make sure

that you have a proper understanding of the scene.

The house was very choppy.

Many rooms, many tight quarters.

It seemed like their little cocoon.

And it didn't seem like they ever entertained anyone

or hosted anyone.

We thought it was very unusual that we have

a couple of late 20-year-old brothers

still living at home who made good money.

These were children, and by children,

I mean adults who had jobs and were employed

and had gone to school living with mommy and daddy.

And that, needless to say, came off extremely bizarrely.

So Grant and Cody appeared to be attached at the hip.

They had the same professional goals.

They had the same educational goals.

They had the same car goals.

I mean, these were people that were totally twinsies

at that point.

There was not a person who said

a negative thing about Cody.

Cody was like the nicest person.

And everybody who came in contact with him loved him.

And he was just like a beloved figure--

the model citizen, and the model brother.

Chad and Margaret both worked in the medical field.

And they both encouraged their sons

to follow in their footsteps.

It seemed that the future looked very bright

for these two brothers.

They were living at home. They weren't paying any bills.

They were both examining careers

in highly lucrative fields.

It seemed like, really, they had the world

at their fingertips.

I'm going. I'm going. I'm going.

Nice job, Grant.

They all were involved with guns.

This is Florida. This is the Gunshine State.

They would spend thousands of dollars on ammunition.

Rounds and rounds and rounds of ammunition.

Me and my brother, Cody--

And our friend Blake--

OK.

We started playing Airsoft together.

Airsoft is a sort of combat simulation game--

Where you use weapons that fire plastic pellets

instead of real bullets.

It would always be our team of 4 to 10

against pretty much everybody else.

You just try to look as cool as possible,

I guess, the best way to put it.

And more times than not,

I was always my brother Cody's shadow.

So I would over-watch him and protect him

when he would dart off to the front lines.

Cody was literally my everything.

This day, out of everybody,

it's Cody that I miss the most.

The first big shakeup

that happened in Grant and Cody's paths

took place in 2018,

when Grant was kicked out of nurse anesthesia school.

Grant gets thrown out.

And after Grant gets thrown out,

this twinsie situation seemed to start to break up.

He looked up to Cody.

And when he got kicked out, I feel he felt inferior to him.

After Grant was kicked out of school,

he was still able to work in the medical field as a nurse.

But then the second hammer dropped.

OK.

He was self-medicating a patient.

The hospital thought he was stealing medicine.

He wasn't.

So it wasn't a theft circumstance.

It was more of like,

I think this is the right way to do this thing.

It was disagreed upon, and he was charged in Orange County

with some kind of theft-related offense

that had to do with medication.

This arrest really seemed to shake

Grant's vision for his future.

That particular decision

changed this young man's whole life.

You and I would not be sitting here if he had not done that.

Your brother's advancing further than you are,

and you're lagging behind.

That could be a major source of tension.

And then after that, things go downhill from there.

Sure.

Grant then starts being lonely at home.

He's starting to be more isolated.

There was a part of me that felt bad for him,

losing his career.

I felt he was looking for a place in this world.

Grant seemed to be at a very low place emotionally.

All right, let's get involved and hope we don't die.

He seemed to be very lonely,

and he seemed to be looking for a place

to fill that void that he had.

Hell, yeah, boys.

There you go, Reimer.

Last game, we got that W, brother.

Twitch is a streaming service

that allows people to stream themselves

playing video games to an audience.

And some people do make a very, very lucrative career

out of streaming on Twitch.

Yeah.

Grant streamed under the name DeusL1GHT,

but his career ambitions never really took off.

Oh, shit.

Hey, ABK. Hey, how are you doing?

And ABK, thank you so much for the bidding.

Oh, sorry.

Never really had that many people watching him stream.

I don't know what's happening.

And he later estimated that he made about $150 a month.

Kiwi, thank you so much for the follow.

You got Grant that's unemployed.

He's in his home. He's not going anywhere.

And he became sort of an isolationist.

And nobody else knew what was going on with him.

Camming is a new interactive genre of pornography.

Cam models perform erotic shows on cam sites

where participants can also chime in and tip models.

The internet has made this possible,

making intimacy available to people who don't actually

have it in their life.

We offered them the spirit of adventure.

You have potentially, say, 1,000 people who are all

in the room who are tipping.

And then there's also the opportunity to go private.

These are spaces where intimacy comes alive.

Now, I'm going to leave.

And you...

are going to be good

until I say otherwise.

But through getting to know her,

I found out that her name is actually Silviya.

Welcome back, Grant.

Silvie is a Bulgarian webcam model

who formed a very lucrative and very successful

career on this website.

She was one of the top creators for myfreecams.

And she was very, very well paid for it.

I didn't really know what a webcam girl was.

The younger attorneys had to explain it to me

what this was all about.

How does it look when I run my fingers

down the tight waist?

It's very tight.

Very.

Very often in the camming industry,

the lines between fantasy and reality

can easily become blurred.

All right, Silviya.

Please send me one of your videos.

I just--I love it so much when you just send them to me.

Yeah, I don't like buying your stuff.

It makes me feel weird.

Oh, poor baby.

I'm so sorry.

You're not.

You're not sorry at all.

The persona that Grant formed for himself on myfreecams

very much matched the persona

that he seemed to want in real life.

So Deus Light was created as an alter ego of mine,

a digital representation of a mix of Cody and I,

where it was my brother's success paired with

my laid back social ability.

And that's really what it was.

It was melding of the two of us together in one.

Grant online presented himself

as a nurse anesthetist, someone who lived by himself,

someone who drove a BMW,

and someone who was more successful than himself.

Grant was just spending his entire day

with his webcam girl named Silvie.

That's all he was doing.

Silvie was doing her job.

And at some point, Grant does become

so entrenched in that intimacy and that emotion

that it's like he lost sight of the rules of that game.

And that's not on Silvie.

The members can have some issues within themselves

that are not necessarily healed.

And they become a bit needy.

They get attached and, you know, care about you

because they are lonely.

And sometimes they feel like they cannot connect

with people in their life,

if they have people in their lives.

They can be nice, and then they can be, like,

a little bit bipolar, transform their personality

and become, like, crazy.

Kind of like a toxic relationship, basically.

Most of the time, I do have the patience,

and I want to help them.

But sometimes, I decide to not get too personal with them.

First, Grant was very much just dipping his toes

into the camming world.

But it seemed to very much very quickly morphed

into a compulsion and then an obsession.

Anybody can access these spaces.

But in order to gain access to those

more deep and intimate relationships,

one has to be ready to pay.

Thank you so much, Smart.

Thank you so much, Grant.

Thank you so, so, so much.

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you.

You fucking pervert.

So there was tension building in the family.

He's got pressure from dad that you need to get a job,

and you just can't sit in your room all day

and, you know, play on the computers.

It's clear at this point that Grant was addicted.

He was spending all night online, sleeping all day,

and he was very pale.

He had dark circles under his eyes,

and he treated his family very poorly at this time.

Everybody is downstairs or in the other rooms.

So it's time to show you some fun.

Do you want to lick?

I'm not sure.

Thank you so, so, so much, Grant.

What the fuck, man? What is it?

Just tell me what you want.

No better?

We talk and play.

It just wants to play next, motherfucker.

Thank you, you fucking pervert.

Thank you, guys.

When I saw that, it just kind of like

clicked with me in a very kind of personal and intimate way

because I kind of saw that I wasn't alone

in the way that I was acting.

I was going to check out some of the anime

that you recommended.

Is "Death Note" a good starting place?

Yes.

So "Death Note" is my number one favorite anime.

It's my brother Cody's second favorite anime.

But the overall story of "Death Note"

seemed kind of similar to

a mentality that I kind of had growing up.

The main premise is that the main character, Light Yagami,

finds a notebook called "Death Note."

And it's dropped from the Shinigami realm,

which is the gods of death realm.

You put somebody's name inside the book.

That individual will die at a certain point.

Light Yagami is idolized by a lot of people and things

like that, but he doesn't let all of that go to his head.

He has his own ambitions.

You know, he sees society in a certain way.

And that's how I always kind of felt.

And that's why Light became synonymous with me.

After years of having a very strong interest

in Japanese media, Japanese culture, and Japanese art,

Grant and Cody eventually took a trip to Japan

with their friend Jericho.

Cody was just like, screw everything that's going on.

We're going to go to this trip, and we're just going to relax,

enjoy ourselves, forget about all this nonsense

that had been going on and just enjoy

what we had always dreamed of doing.

Cody entirely financed this trip.

And Cody never really asked for anything in return.

He just wanted to spend time with his brother

and see him happy for the first time in months.

Shibuya intersection.

Madness.

We experienced about five or six of the main cities.

Did a lot of, you know, sightseeing,

typical tourist stuff.

I went to a lot of the nerd spots there.

A lot of things that you see in a lot of classic anime.

You can see how fast we're going.

Zipping along at, like, 180-something miles an hour

right now.

It seemed like they were having a great time

and fulfilling a lifelong fantasy.

They were visiting spas.

They were visiting the Shinjuku district in Tokyo.

They were visiting the city of Kyoto.

They were taking selfies on the bullet train.

But toward the end of this trip,

when Grant realized that this fantasy was ending,

he seemed to spiral into a depression.

I went to Japan because Cody wanted to go to Japan.

I didn't like the fact that he was paying for everything.

And, you know, when it's nighttime

and you're falling asleep in each one of the ryokan hotels,

and you're just, you know--

you have that moment where you're reminded of

what your life in waiting actually is.

It was very depressing for me

at the end of each one of the days.

It was one day closer to reality coming back.

Grant had run off and kind of isolated himself.

And Cody tracked him down, and they had a heart-to-heart,

as any two brothers facing a challenging situation would.

And that's where it's the first instance of me

telling him all about Silviya.

I tell him all about my freecams, everything.

Cody seemed to have some sort of sympathy for Grant

in this moment.

And he actually financed more tokens for Grant

to spend on Silviya at this point.

When they return to Florida is when

the dynamic in the family really started to change.

Cody told their father

about this relationship with Silviya.

And so when I came back from Japan

and everything was out in the open now,

it was a very uncomfortable, toxic living environment.

I couldn't escape from this cataclysmic episode

in my life.

And that was very eye-opening.

So I run away from home.

And when I run away, I go to my Aunt Donna's house,

because she was always the one

who felt like I could depend on the most

in terms of my extended family.

And Cody started off by just texting me and then calling me,

you know, seeing what I was doing

and what--basically, like,

what the hell is your plan here, dude?

What's up, Cody, my nini?

I drove to PNC Bank.

And it was in that parking lot that I recorded those videos.

I really hope that

you believe me when I say that you are my best friend.

And I need $50,000 from you

transferred to an account that I'm going to give you

the numbers to.

I hope I can see you again

before I have to enact the plan.

So the plan in those videos was me trying to set up

a situation where I could accrue funds

to fly to Bulgaria to meet Silviya in person.

Cody, you have to do this.

With every fiber of your being, you have to do this.

And protect my things.

Don't let them be infiltrated, please.

There's not anything hidden,

but that will only make things worse for me.

And I'm already at the end.

This is where the entire situation boils over

in a very, very dramatic and a very, very dark way.

So when I was at my Aunt Donna's house,

Cody texted me and told me to come out.

They were there to take me home.

And I saw my brother standing there

at the end of the driveway.

And now my family members are encircling me.

And then Cody tells me that they're taking me to rehab.

I didn't say anything.

You know, I was very quiet.

And it was very-- it was just very still.

And in that moment, you just kind of, like,

snap mentally, where it's--

you think very clearly about specific things.

I think Grant felt love towards Silvie.

Whether that love is rational,

or irrational, or naive is a whole nother story.

So they take him down to South Florida.

Cody pays, I think, $8,000, something of that nature.

And that was supposed to be for a 60-day stay.

I was in that rehab facility when my dad

found Silviya's email address.

My dad told Silviya the truth,

you know, the totality of who I actually was.

But, you know, I just-- it's just embarrassing.

His dad reached out to Silvie and said that,

hey, my son isn't the man he said he is.

He doesn't drive a BMW. He drives a Honda.

He doesn't live alone. He lives with his parents.

And his entire life is a lie.

Cornerstone was a 60-day program,

but Grant didn't complete it.

His mom came and picked him up after only a few weeks

and took him back home.

But by this point, his dad was understandably fed up

and decided to take him to a California Pizza Kitchen

and give him an ultimatum.

I mean, it's not going to go back to normal,

I don't think, ever again.

This was a, you know, self-destruct event.

10-4, the other brother's coming back.