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A good-natured,
fun-loving man.

He was just a
wonderful person.

He was so funny and so charming.

Enjoying
his retirement years.

At that point in his
life, he was very content,

very close to his family,
his nieces and nephews.

Is
brutally gunned down

a month before his wedding.

It was point
blank, assassination.

Investigators
pieced together

a series of clues.

We had to look at what role
had that upcoming wedding had

and what happened.

They had their arguments,
they had their differences.

Was the scene staged

to cover up
unintentional killing?

The investigation
kept hitting dead end

after dead end.

And chase
down multiple suspects.

It was a whodunit.

We were hoping for
that break to come.

Revealing
a plot fueled by greed.

He was somebody who had
had a criminal history

of theft and assault.

Just when police
are close to making an arrest.

It was like he had just
got smacked in the head

with a baseball bat.

They uncovered
damning evidence pointing

to a surprising suspect.

You never expect
anything like this.

And then all the
sudden the killer

was right in front of us.

On a warm
July afternoon in 2014,

the sleepy Pittsburgh
suburb of Kennedy Township

is rocked by a
panicked call to 911.

The woman who made

the 911 call, Carol Lapaglia,

says the victim is her
soon-to-be husband,

59-year-old Jack Parkes.

When I arrived on scene,

the first thing I noticed
is that the victim's head

was covered in blood.

It was on closer examination
that you could see

it was a gunshot wound.

One challenge we had
right out of the gate

was that there was no
casing or gun found.

We don't move his body until
it can be photographed.

It was possible there
was a gun underneath him

that no one had seen.

So, we weren't 100% sure
if the gunshot wound

at that point had been
self-inflicted or homicide.

We looked for awhile.

Unfortunately, we didn't
find any type of gun.

Detectives
search for any signs

of what happened to Jack
and who pulled the trigger.

It was pretty clear right
off the bat that this was

some type of a home invasion
or robbery that occurred.

It didn't look like a
struggle had ensued in the room,

but once you walked
through the victim's house,

the further you got into it,

the more you realized the
level of disarray it was in.

And as you went into
the dining room,

you started to see
jewelry box here,

a drawer gone through here,
papers rifled through,

upstairs there was
just complete disarray.

The drawers were all pulled out.

The clothing that was
inside the drawers

was strewn everywhere,
jewelry boxes flipped open,

empty watch boxes laying there.

We were trying to be
determined was the scene staged?

Was someone just
trying to make it look

like a robbery or a burglary

and when in fact they're
just trying to cover up

an intentional killing

where they intended just to
walk in and execute somebody?

The house was dusted
and processed for
DNA and fingerprints.

We then began to process the
outside of the residence,

looking for any
type of forced entry

and none of that was found.

Our first thoughts were
the victim either Knew

the actor or was
familiar with him.

That's just our
first impression.

So, you know, who was
friends with the victim,

who would have
access to the victim,

who had opportunity to the
victim, and who would he trust?

It really was a shocking case.

He was killed execution style.

This homicide
happened in an area

that we don't
normally have murders.

Jack's death
is the first homicide

in Kennedy Township in 10 years,

the news stuns his
family and friends.

When I got that phone call

and I heard Carol's voice,

I knew something was wrong.

And she said, "Jack's gone."

I said, "What do you mean gone?"

She said, "He's dead."

And then she said,
"He was murdered."

And I just went into shock.

Jack Parkes was
born the second of five kids

in Pittsburgh in 1955,

friends and family
where everything to him.

Jack always made friends.

He was one of the best
people I've ever known.

He would do anything
for anybody.

We first met in first grade,

we hit it off all
through high school.

After that it was a good ride.

Jack was so well liked.

He'd be charming
when he wanted to.

And funny, he was just
a wonderful person.

In 1989,
a chance encounter

changed Jack's life.

Jack met Carol
at the local bar

and I guess they hit it off.

They were two peas in a pod.

Soon as he brought Carol,
we fell in love with Carol.

Jack was very
close to his family.

He had about nine
nieces and nephews.

Jack and Carol used to
have their nieces and nephews

over for sleepovers,

making the popcorn and
just having a good time.

You'd a swore that Jack
and Carol were the parents.

They didn't have kids, so
when those kids were around,

they were their kids.

Jack
had recently retired,

but had big plans
for the future.

At that point in his life,

Jack was very content.

Him and Carol we're
gonna get married.

They'd been together
for over 25 years.

Carol in the beginning
really wanted to get married

and Jack didn't.

And then at one point,

Jack wanted to get
married and Carol didn't.

And I used to tell Jack,

"You know what?

I'd like to be living
when you get married,

when you say I do."

And then when they set the date,

I was so happy, it was
gonna be an exciting,

very exciting day.

Tragically
Jack was murdered

a month before the
ceremony was to take place.

Her and Jack we're going
to be married on August 31st

of that year and it
just, it was really sad.

It was so close.

At 5:00
PM on July 21st,

two hours after Carol
found Jack dead,

police question
her at the station.

Talking to Carol was so
important because first of all

we had to determine whether
she was or wasn't involved.

And we wanted to just get
the best timeline from her.

During the interview with
Carol when she explained it,

she had left for work as
usual, her normal time,

about 5:40, she
starts work at six.

Everything was fine
when she left for work,

it wasn't until a realtor called
her about a potential buyer

for Jack's late mother's home.

And when the realtor
couldn't get ahold of Jack,

Carol started to worry.

She tried to call Jack
and there was no answer.

So, then she got concerned.

He always called
her back every time

that she tried to
get ahold of him.

So, I think it was
approximately about two o'clock,

she left work and then come
over and find Jack of course.

Detectives
know that spouses

are always the first
suspect and must determine

if they can trust Carol's
version of events.

We have a timeline
between 6:00 AM to 3:00 PM

when she returns home.

In some cases, if a person
is a cold-blooded killer,

they would have killed him
before she left the house

and then all of a sudden
she finds him and you know,

and the killer was
right in front of us.

Her demeanor,
she was very upset,

but you can't take a
chance by skipping a stone

and not trying to look at her.

Detectives
are suspicious

of why it took
the couple so long

to decide to get married

and if someone had cold feet.

Something that we thought

is are either one of them having
affairs with someone else,

could that be a
possible motivation?

And is this upcoming
wedding triggering that?

Coming
up, detectives
uncover a family feud.

They just decided
to distance themselves

and not let him
come to the house.

And learn
Jack's inner circle

isn't as loving and
devoted as it first seems.

Things got more contentious.

As police keep
digging, more suspects surface.

We learned of
several burglaries.

They had concerns
about the employees.

They hire criminals.

Just
when the investigation

is about to hit
another dead end.

We had no idea who
would have done this.

Detectives
make a crucial discovery.

It was exactly what we needed.

When we got the phone records
back, it was, oh my God.

Kennedy Township
police are investigating

the area's first
homicide in a decade.

59-year-old Jack
Parkes was found dead

in his home by his fiance Carol

in what appears to be a robbery.

But since there was
no forced entry,

investigators try to determine

if this was actually
a staged attack.

And if the motive was
something more personal.

When we've interviewed Carol,
we had to look at what role,

if any, that upcoming
wedding had in what happened.

We had to start looking at
every aspect of their lifestyle.

What were the family dynamics?

We had to chip away at a
number of things in their life,

things that happened that day,

but also things that
might've happened in the past

that could be a motivation
for this murder.

They had their differences,
they'd have their arguments,

but it wasn't my point to get
involved in their squabbles.

We kept talking more and
more about any kind of problems

that they had had in their home

and I asked her do either
of them have a gun?

And she said that they did not.

Carol says
she would never do anything

to hurt the love of her life.

She wanted to marry him.

Jack was her soulmate.

Jack and Carol,
they loved each other.

They felt they were
already married.

To everybody they were
husband and wife years before

the wedding was planned.

Carol was very upset.

It was very difficult
to talk to her

while she processed
that emotion,

but then to still get
the information we needed

to keep moving the
investigation forward.

To me, that was a sign
that she wasn't involved.

With suspicion
shifting from Carol for now,

investigators explore whether
theft was the main motive.

The bedroom was ransacked.

The mattress with disturbed,

things were emptied
out of drawers.

Carol had indicated to me
some items that should be there.

Their wedding rings
that they had bought,

Jack collected some coins,

he had some expensive watches.

She indicated that the watches
should be in the boxes.

When we first processed
the areas of disarray,

none of those items were there.

That was our first
big clue to go off of.

I knew that if we could
find that jewelry,

we could find who was involved.

We didn't know if the
person who took it

might've given it
to someone else,

but we had to start
with where is it?

Who has it?

And how did they get it?

The next morning,
the autopsy report comes in.

He was taken out with one shot

to the right side of his head.

It took it to a level where
you know that as someone

who probably came
there with the intent

to either use that weapon to
intimidate or control Jack.

There was a projectile that
was recovered from his skull

and we were able to determine

that we were looking
for this .380.

So, that was a
good start for us.

Now, we knew what kind of
gun we were looking for.

During the victim's autopsy,

you could see that there were
no wounds on his hands at all.

There were no scratches.

There were no
broken fingernails,

nothing that seemed to
indicate that he had

had a chance to fight back.

He had been caught
completely off guard.

During
Carol's interview,

she indicated to police that
Jack's nephew, Bradley Johnson,

is someone they
should look into.

Bradley was living
across the street

with his mother and father,

across the street from Jack.

And he was always over there.

And from what I understand,

he was one of the last
ones to see Jack alive.

We made contact with Bradley

and Bradley had told us

that he had gone over to
Jack's house on the 21st.

And he said he got there
around 10:30 in the morning.

Detectives
find that timing suspicious.

They know Jack was
killed sometime

between 6:00 AM and
3:00 PM that day.

I asked him, I said,

"Bradley, what did you go over
there to talk to him about?"

He said, well, Jack's
mother had passed away.

And he knew that Jack was
looking to sell the home,

but Bradley wanted to
negotiate a deal with Jack

and he wanted to
talk to Jack alone

because he said,
"You know, I just,

I don't want Carol
weighing in on this.

I want this to be a
Parke's family matter

and I wanna discuss
it with him."

In his words, "I didn't want
her putting her two cents in."

And that was a phrase
that seemed to hint

at some kind of animosity.

Bradley
tells investigators

that he finds Carol
too controlling

and that she shouldn't have a
say in this family decision.

Jack wanted to wait

until he could talk
with Carol about it

which sort of
defeated the purpose

of why Bradley had gone
there when she wasn't home.

So, he said he ended up leaving

and they were gonna revisit
the conversation later.

As investigators
press him further,

Bradley reveals
an alarming fact.

We did ask him about any
firearms that he owned.

And when Bradley told us he
owned a .380 caliber pistol,

kinda was like, okay,
this may be something.

Maybe something broke bad

'cause now we know Carol
leaves for work at 6:00 AM

and Jack's alive at 10:30
because Brad's telling us

he's over there.

He indicated he
had left about 11:15.

With Bradley's timeline,

it definitely seemed that
Bradley was very close in time

to when Jack would
have been killed

and he put himself there.

He had the same type of gun.

Had the discussion

about Jack's mother's
house turned fatal?

With the timing of Bradley's
conversation with Jack,

it made me wonder whether
things got more contentious

than he was alluding to
in my interview with him.

Or did he leave there upset?

Or did somebody else come
back and do something to Jack?

It had to be looked into.

12 hours after
Jack Parkes was found dead,

investigators chase down leads

around their latest
person of interest,

Jack's nephew, Bradley Johnson.

When I found out that Bradley
was a suspect, I was mad.

I was really upset knowing
that they thought that.

But then again, when it
comes to an investigation,

police are doing their job.

Bradley and
Jack had a disagreement

and he admits to owning
the same caliber gun.

So that definitely stepped
up our interest in Bradley.

This is a gun that we
needed to take a look at.

Bradley's gun was collected,

taken to the lab where
it was test fired.

the ballistics on the gun
did not match the projectile

that was recovered from
Jack during the autopsy.

With nothing
concrete linking Bradley

to the murder, he is
dropped as a suspect.

Detectives also
corroborate Carol's alibi.

On the day that this happened,

we were able to verify
that she was at work

and she was accounted
for at that time.

We were able to eliminate
Carol as a suspect.

Looking
for new leads,

detectives speak to the
other nieces and nephews

who were close to Jack.

During our interview of Carol,

she had told us about her
nephew, Michael Lapaglia,

who was almost like a son to her

and he had been at
the house a lot.

They got along good.

Michael joined the military.

Jack was very proud of Michael.

Jack took pride in
the nieces and nephews

because he watched them grow up.

Michael was brought in
to the homicide office

and interviewed
about Jack's murder.

And during that interview,

Michael had said that
he was unemployed.

He was trying to seek help
through the VA hospital due

to his PTSD from
being in the Army.

Michael had been discharged
from the military due

to his use of cannabis.

Michael also
admits he'd fallen out

with the family, including
his aunt and uncle

and hadn't seen them in a year.

He specifically denied being
over near the victim's house

and he made reference
to them being estranged.

Michael had a bit
of a drug problem

and Carol and Jack decided

to distance themselves
from Michael

and not let him
come to the house.

Detectives
still need to know

where Michael was
when Jack was killed.

We knew Carol
left around 6:00 AM.

We knew that Bradley
was there about 10:30.

We knew Carol found him
around three o'clock.

So, there's a window of
opportunity of about four hours.

He told us he was at
home in Sharpsburg

on the day of the
incident July 21st,

20 minutes away
from Jack's house.

He said that his girlfriend

had kind of unexpectedly
taken the day off

and they spent the day together,

nothing out of the ordinary.

He gave us some
landmarks on our timeline

that we could check out.

Michael and his
girlfriend, Melanie,

had gone and done some
shopping in the town

that they lived in.

He said that he had had
a doctor's appointment

at the VA hospital
later that afternoon.

These were things at
businesses and locations

that we could check from
doing surveillance video

or getting sales transactions.

Michael's girlfriend, Melanie,

did corroborate his activities

and she stated they had
spent the day together.

It was determined that
his alibi had checked out.

A day
into the investigation

with Jack's closest
circle clear,

investigators
escalate the search

for the missing jewelry.

We were physically
going to many pawn shops

to try to see if anybody
had sold this jewelry.

We didn't get any
traction with that.

That's when we started doing
a canvas of the neighborhood.

When we were doing
our neighborhood canvas,

so many people had
mentioned near their house

there's a meat factory

and they had concerns
about the employees.

We had heard things like,
"They hire people with records.

They hire criminals."

From talking to Carol, she said

they have a straight view
into Carol and Jack's home.

And Jack had mentioned sometimes

he would let people use his
phone or use the bathroom

when they were on their break.

And it upset her.

In a case like this, you may
see, hey, look at this guy.

He got some gold on, it's
a crime of opportunity.

We knew that they
got their morning break

right around the time
when people stopped
hearing from Jack.

So, we definitely
wanted to look into that

and see what the
consensus was over there.

I think we did like
almost 40 interviews

of all the employees
to see who they were.

One
worker in particular
peaks police interest.

Ronald Blevins was
a name that came up

from multiple employees.

In the context of people
who had gone over to Jack's.

This may be the person
that Carol was aware

that had come over there.

Ronald Blevins was somebody
who had had a criminal history

of petty theft and assault.

So, he was on our
radar for sure.

Investigators work quickly

to bring Ronald in
for an interview.

Ronald indicated
that he had known Jack

and they were actually friendly

and that's why he was allowed
to come into the house

when Carol wasn't home.

Carol said she would
get upset with Jack.

She would say, "Jack, don't
just let anyone in our house.

You can't do that."

And he would just
kind of shrug it off,

but she just didn't want
people coming into the house

that she didn't know.

Investigators
ask Ronald point blank

if he had anything to
do with Jack's murder.

He said he had no
involvement in Jack's death.

The day that Jack was killed,
Ronald didn't come to work.

He had actually taken
scheduled vacation

for Friday and Monday.

Ronald Blevins'
alibi checked out

and we were able to eliminate
him as a suspect in this case.

Desperate
for a new lead,

investigators look
for similarities

with other robberies
in the area.

After Jack's murder,

we talked to the
local authorities.

And during that, we learned
of several burglaries.

One of which an older
lady was burglarized

and about $5,000 worth
of quarters were taken.

Jack's killer
had stolen his coins

as well as jewelry.

Is this the same person?

And could they strike again?

The neighbors
were very afraid.

We still have a
killer out there.

It was a whodunit.

When something
like this happens,

you think that
anything's possible now.

Police
investigating the
cold-blooded shooting

of Jack Parkes,
suspect his murder

could be linked to
another recent robbery

in then neighborhood.

We learned that
during that burglary

there were some items
similar to what Jack had

that were taken and
it was a burglary

that happened during the day,

which is the timeline
we were looking at

in this particular incident.

Oftentimes in our investigations,

we see that residential
burglaries are
done during the day

in bedroom communities

where the chance of the
people inside the home

being at work are better.

And that way they can go in and
they can take what they need

without fear of being caught.

With Jack being
retired and home all day,

had he caught the
burglar red-handed

and paid the ultimate price?

The neighboring police
department already

has a suspect in custody.

Vernon Zelinsky was identified
as a possible suspect.

in this case.

He had been recently arrested.

The items that Vernon was
accused of taking were coins,

well, Jack had coins
that were missing.

So, Vernon Zelinsky was tracked
down and he was interviewed.

We really just wanted
to do an interview

and determine what connection,
if any, he had to Jack.

During the interview,

he said that he had been
arrested for the burglary,

but that burglary was at
an old employer's house.

He denied knowing Jack.

And he said that the
date that this happened

he was actually at work.

We confirmed that
through his new employer

that he was working that day

during the timeframe that
this would have occurred.

Vernon was somebody we were
absolutely able to rule out

of being directly involved.

At that stage in
the investigation,

we had no idea who
might've done this and why.

48 Hours after
Jack's murder with no arrests

in the case, fear is
growing in Kennedy Township.

Everyone was concerned
that how in broad daylight

can someone walk into a house,

kill somebody, and walk out
without even being seen?

The hardest thing to
comprehend was the murder.

It was point blank, assassination.

Stone-cold killing.

You never expect
anything like this.

I know I didn't.

Waiting for an arrest,

you're still in that daze
of trying to process it all.

He's not coming back.

It's just too unbelievable.

Is this gonna be
another murder unsolved?

We had a lot of
information to go on

and we were constantly moving
the investigation forward.

People were being eliminated.

Further suspects
were being developed.

Three days after
Jack was discovered dead,

police get a major break.

A local pawn shop
in Sharpsburg, PA,

which is another
small little borough

within Allegheny County,

the owner had called
the local police due

to some suspicious activity.

On the day of the
incident, July 21st,

he said a gentleman came
in with a cache of gold

and was trying to
sell it to him.

What the employee found
to be concerning was

first of all, the
jewelry was manipulated.

It was very distinguishable
pieces, but they had been,

it seemed to be hammered or
just manipulated in a way

that would make them hard for
law enforcement to identify.

It threw up a red flag to him,

but also he seemed to think
that this was a person

who had sold him stolen
jewelry in the past.

So, he didn't buy the jewelry,

but he also had the
foresight to know

he wanted to see where this
jewelry might've come from.

He knew it was important
to get a picture of it.

So, he took a
photograph of the items

that this person
was trying to sell.

He provided us
with the photographs

and they were taken to
Carol who viewed them.

She became very upset.

She started crying

and she said,
"That's our jewelry."

It felt like we
were closing in.

Based upon the photograph
of the jewelry,

we were able to get that
out to the local department.

They could share with the
pawn shop owners in town

if anyone comes in with it.

Investigators hope they

can identify the seller.

The pawn shop owner was able
to give a good description

of the person who
brought the jewelry

and a younger white male,
black hair, and thin build.

That description was provided

to the local police
chief in Sharpsburg

and he thought that
fit the description

of a white male from that area.

It gave us a very good
lead in this case.

A photo array was put together

to include eight
individual photographs

and they were shown
to the shop owner.

We have a set of
instructions that we give them.

And we say,

"The person that
we're looking for

may or may not be in here,

but if you see the person
indicated on the lineup."

So, once he reviewed
the photo array,

he did identify who
that person was.

It was a huge break.

It was exactly what we needed.

Coming up,
police find stunning evidence

pointing to Jack's killer.

In the video, we knew
exactly who it was.

This was a shock to everyone.

You never thought
that would happen.

It would be that person.

But, making
an arrest wouldn't be easy.

She provided alibis
for him and just denials.

Until investigators
find proof no one can deny.

Those records don't lie.

Detectives
have just identified the man

who tried to pawn murder
victim Jack Parke's jewelry.

His name, Bryan Gibbons.

He's been a known thief

to the local police department.

We went after that lead strong.

We were feeling pretty
confident that Mr. Gibbons

may be our man, or at
least know who our man was.

We were very excited and very
motivated to go find him.

Bryan has a
long history of petty crimes,

but investigators need to
determine if he's a killer.

Four days after the murder,

they get a warrant
to search his home.

Specifically, we were looking

for any of the very
distinguishing items that

Jack Parkes had.

Unfortunately, we didn't find
any of the victim's jewelry

in house, but we
did find some items

that did turn out to be
stolen from someone else.

Based upon the search
at Mr. Gibbons' residence,

we were able to arrest him

and have him sent
to the county jail.

Investigators
question Bryan

about Jack's missing jewelry.

He said that he didn't
have anything to do with it.

At that point,

we were trying to determine
if perhaps he'd been given

some jewelry to sell that
maybe he didn't know its origin

and he went to go sell it.

We really just wanted to
see if we could come up

with any connection to
rule him either in or out

on the homicide of Jack Parkes.

Bryan
tells detectives

he doesn't know the victim and
has never been to his home.

He said he had no
connection to Jack at all.

He denied having any knowledge
of the Jack Parkes' homicide.

We asked, "Well,
what's your alibi?"

And he goes,

I was arrested for entering
an abandoned house that day.

And that was confirmed.

Bryan was not the killer.

He had a solid alibi.

It was clear that he was
not the same individual

who had come in to the
store on that Monday

and tried to sell the jewelry.

The pawn shop
owner mistakenly identified

the wrong person.

The investigation kept hitting
dead end after dead end..

We thought we had it, but
then once we eliminate him,

we took a pause.

We just step back a
minute, not start all over,

but then keep everything
else in perspective.

While detectives
hunt for new leads,

Jack's loved ones
struggle with their grief.

Instead of looking
forward to Jack's wedding,

five days after his murder,
they attend his funeral.

When he told me he
was gonna get married,

his brother and I would
have stood up for him.

I was proud 'cause I
was never a best man.

And there I was

carrying his casket.

God, to have something
like that happen

in such a quick time.

It's devastating to everybody.

You feel the hurt,

but it really doesn't sink in
until the funeral's all over.

And then the shock is
over, it's reality.

He's gone.

Fearing
the case could go cold,

a week after the murder
police step up the hunt

for Jack's stolen jewelry,

hoping the culprit is
still attempting to sell it

at a pawn shop.

We all just sort of fanned out

and we took particular
geographical areas.

We knew there was still a
person that was out there trying

to sell Jack's jewelry

and we had to just
keep holding out hope

that the pawn shop would
take their identification,

that they would
keep good records.

That's what kept
us going honestly.

There is a detective in
the city of Pittsburgh

who is a pawn shop
records analyst

and I reached out to her
and I told her what items

that we had missing.

And on August 4th I
heard back from her

and she told me that she
had found the jewelry,

where it had been sold.

Investigators
race to the pawn shop.

We had to go take a
physical look at it,

see who, if anybody
was on camera.

Some store policies,
all they have to do

is take an individual's
driver's license number.

They don't even have to
make a photocopy of it.

So, we were trying
to remain optimistic

that somehow we would get an
image of the actual person

who tried to sell that jewelry.

It could have been
anyone at that point.

The pawn shop
has surveillance video

and what detectives see
on tape is jaw-dropping.

It was, oh my God.

We knew exactly who it was.

In the video, it was
Michael Lapaglia,

which was Carol's
nephew that Jack raised

like one of his own.

This was a shock to everyone.

When we first had dealings
with Michael early on

in the investigation,

he did provide an alibi of

about businesses he was
at, doctor's appointments.

Michael, had his
girlfriend, Melanie,

saying that he was with
her during the time

that Jack would have or
could have been killed.

So, it was kind of going
back, trying to rephrase

what he had initially told us.

We still had to do a
little bit more digging.

We had to work on if we
were missing something.

Early on when we
talked to Michael,

he had given detectives
his phone number.

I wanted to get
his phone records.

While investigators
wait for those records,

they call Michael back in.

We are going to interview
him and see what he has to say

now that we have him on tape
pawning his uncle's jewelery.

We decided that it
would probably be ideal

to bring Michael and
his girlfriend, Melanie,

in at the same times,

being that she was the person

who was providing
an alibi for him

and chip away at that and
see where the truth lie.

We took them both
back to our office

and they were interviewed
in separate rooms.

Michael in his interview
was initially very adamant

that he had nothing
to do with this.

He denied involvement
with the murder,

involvement with the jewelry,

and he just would not
deviate from that.

Melanie
stands by her story too.

She provided alibis
for him and just denials.

Melanie is pretty much
telling us that he was with her

during the time
that Jack would have

or could have been killed.

She was just defensive

and trying to argue with
what we knew was not true.

And that was that he
had sold Jack's jewelry.

We showed her a
picture of the jewelry

and she tried to
say it was hers.

And we knew that was a lie.

With neither Michael
nor Melanie cracking

under the pressure,

detectives need something
to break the deadlock.

When we got the information

about the cell phone
records it was a huge break.

We were very happy that it
finally had come through.

It was like everything
came full circle.

Two weeks
after Jack Parkes

was shot to death
in his own home,

investigators get the break
in the case they needed.

Incriminating cell
phone GPS data.

When I got Michael's
phone records,

I started to see where generally
he spent most of his time,

which was consistent
with his home.

He told us he
was in Sharpsburg,

20 minutes away
from Jack's house

on the day of the incident.

Parts of his alibi checked
out cell phone data-wise,

but there was an anomaly
where about 11:45

his cell phone pinged
over in the area

of Jack and Carol's house.

To me the significance
of 11:45 was

it is in this time where
Carol can't reach Jack.

It would be impossible
to be in Sharpsburg

and your phone ping off a
tower in Kennedy Township.

The amount of distance
between the two,

it wouldn't be possible.

He was not at home.

He was over near
his uncle's house.

So 11:45, Michael's
phone being over there

was an aha moment.

Those records don't lie.

Detectives wanna see

how Michael will
react when confronted

with his own cell phone records.

It was like

he had just got smacked in
the head with a baseball bat.

He became very quiet,

took a second, and he
just let it all out.

Michael's
explanation of why he went

to see Jack only
raises more suspicion.

His story changed
to self-defense.

Reconciling that
just wasn't possible.

Jack was shot one time,
right close to his ear.

Basically someone held a gun
to his head and executed him.

Michael
tells detectives

he sold the jewelry for $1000.

Even more shocking is what
he spent the money on.

Michael was following the
path of substance abuse.

It was getting to be
more addictive drugs

and his use was increasing.

It wasn't recreational anymore.

It was more of the
behavior of an addict.

It was heartbreaking
for us to know

that someone who was
almost like Jack's son,

very close family member,
would do something like that

in exchange for a couple
of dollars to get high.

I believe Michael went to
that house to take jewelry.

He knew Jack was there

and the only way who's
gonna get that jewelry

is if Jack was dead.

He walked up to the house

and as soon as Jack
met him at the door

and turned his back to him,

he shot him and he fell
and he died instantly.

On
August 5th, 2014,

Michael Lapaglia is charged
with first degree murder.

To say to Carol, "We
know who did this."

It was hard.

But, the hardest answer
that we had for her

is when she said, "Michael who?"

And he had the same
last name as her.

Really, it was hard
to tell her that

it's your nephew
and it just hit her

and she was very upset.

You never thought
that would happen.

It would be that person.

It's still to this day,

so hard to believe that
somebody that they loved,

Michael, could have done
something like this.

I mean, what he did,

I can't describe,
there's no words.

At trial,
Michael is found guilty.

On December 9th,
2015, the 24-year-old

is sentenced to life in prison.

He took a loving, caring man

and just executed him.

There was no winners.

We lost Jack, who won?

Nobody.

I will never forgive him.

Michael took away my
best friend, my brother.

He took away a lot from me.

To this day I
still hate the guy.

Jack will never be forgotten.

In the beginning, it's hard
talking about a loved one

without really breaking
down and crying.

But you continue
to talk about him.

You keep their memory alive.

And that's how he stays with us.

Every day he's here

in my mind, my
heart, and my dreams.

I see his face, always smiling.

I know he's flying
with the angels.