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[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Rhode island, literally, is the ocean state.
- You grow up just knowing the ocean.
I mean, the ocean is part of you.
- But just because of the geography--
[thunder booming]
--You get a good storm, you're gonna get flooding here.
- The city suffered from what's called a macroburst.
- It's basically a really big thunderstorm.
The wind basically blows everything sideways.
- Boats got untied and thrown into bays
All over the coastline.
It was bad.
- The next day, I saw a boat that I hadn't recognized.
I couldn't believe it.
I found a body, a human body.
- I just dropped.
The big question is how?
Was it a boat accident in the storm?
- The eyewitness said two subjects had a cooler
And a gas can and proceeded down to the boat.
- There was a figure standing on the deck driving
The boat down the coast.
- I was thinking we actually had a homicide at that point.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[seagulls squawking]
- Known as the city by the bay,
Warwick, rhode island, is truly all about the water.
Home to 18 marinas, 3,200 boat slips--
That's a lot of slips--
And approximately 39 miles of scenic coastline,
The historic beach town offers endless opportunities
For fun in the sun.
But after a devastating storm rips through the area,
An abandoned boat reveals a dark secret.
And one family is swept up in tragedy.
[tense music]
[thunder booming]
- On August 4, 2015, the city of warwick
And the majority of rhode island
Suffered from what's called a macroburst.
♪ ♪
- The wind comes down and basically
Blows everything sideways.
♪ ♪
It went right through the bay.
It just caused havoc in and around all
The marinas and the waterways.
- The intensity, you know, the violence of the storm
Brought with it a lot of wind.
- It tore up people's property.
Boats got untied and thrown into bays
All over the coastline.
♪ ♪
I mean, it was bad.
- Often occurring during a thunderstorm,
A macroburst is an intense downdraft
Of air that spreads out in all directions
When it hits the ground.
Wind speeds can reach 100 miles an hour,
Causing structural damage to buildings and loose debris
To become airborne missiles.
They're comparable to, and in many cases,
Can be worse than tornadoes.
[sirens wailing]
- The warwick fire department and police department
Was on just about every street corner
Taking care of downed wires,
Taking care of downed tree lines.
[sirens wailing]
- There were power outages all over the city.
So from a police perspective,
We were trying to handle traffic,
Trying to handle emergency calls
All around all the damage that was done
By this macroburst.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[birds chirping]
- After the macroburst, it was important to check on things.
[light piano music]
Harbormasters are in charge of boating safety.
So we needed to check if anything happened.
Damaged boats, boats ashore or sunk,
We'd respond to it as needed.
Normally, the same boats are in that area all the time.
But I saw a boat that I hadn't recognized.
♪ ♪
- The vessel in question, the "star capella,"
Is a columbia 26 yellow-and-white sailboat.
Built in the late 1960s, it's known for its speed
And stability and is excellent for extended
Stays on the water.
♪ ♪
- I assumed that it had come in to get away from the weather.
♪ ♪
So I watched it for a while, then I realized it was moving,
Kind of floating out there up against another person's boat,
Causing some damage.
♪ ♪
So I drove to one of my patrol boats
And made my way over to it.
♪ ♪
I was able to get on board the boat.
Didn't hear anybody, didn't see anybody.
I spent very little time on the boat.
It wasn't locked.
Just looked inside quickly.
Most of the contents of the boat
Were strewn about on the floor.
What a mess.
So I thought maybe the person living on the boat
Had been out in the storm and maybe things
Got a little out of hand and decided to get away
From it as soon as he could.
So I decided to tow it to the mouth of warwick cove
And put it on a mooring where it would be in plain sight
From a number of locations in case
That person were to return.
♪ ♪
Then I waited.
♪ ♪
- A mooring is a floating buoy that
Is secured to the sea floor with something more permanent
Than an anchor.
It has been set by experts or government officials
And is intended to be there long-term.
In this case, because the harbormaster
Didn't know who owned the boat and where it should be docked,
It was the best solution for securing the vessel
Until the owner returned.
♪ ♪
- I thought the boat was going to be picked up and taken away.
But a little more than a week--
Actually, it was 11 days--
And I saw the boat.
So I went back to check on the boat more closely.
And I realized that there was a foul odor coming from the boat.
Obviously didn't know what to think of this,
If something had gotten into the boat,
Whether it was a bird or an animal or something like that.
So I then boarded the boat,
Went inside, and there was considerable insect activity.
♪ ♪
I took a boat hook.
I started lifting and moving some
Of the debris that was on the deck or the floor of the boat.
♪ ♪
I saw the feet and legs first.
♪ ♪
I couldn't believe it.
I found a body, a human body.
♪ ♪
The body's state was so advanced in decomposition.
I had never seen anything like that in warwick before.
It's not something that I ever expected to find.
My mind, it's-- it's spinning at this point.
How could this have happened?
I said, well, maybe he'd been out in the storm.
[waves crashing]
Fell, hit his head, or something like that.
I guess this body had to have been here all along.
And that was a pretty shocking feeling, sickening feeling.
And at that point, I left and made a couple of calls
To both fire and police to determine
If this was a matter of criminal activity
Or an accident on board a boat.
♪ ♪
- We were attempting to determine who the owner was.
[thunder booming]
It appeared that the person had stumbled
On the back of the boat.
But with the advanced state of decomposition,
It was hard to determine the means of death.
- There may have been a couple of individuals
Seen on the boat that piqued our curiosity.
- There's always a possibility that the death
Had been the result of foul play.
♪ ♪
[tense music]
- 11 days after a destructive macroburst hits warwick,
Rhode island, the harbormaster discovers a body
Inside an abandoned sailboat
And immediately contacts authorities.
♪ ♪
- We got there to the scene and could see
The 26-foot yellow boat that was in question.
We didn't think it was gonna be anything more
Than possibly an elderly person
Enjoying their days on a boat.
And unfortunately, at that time,
Nobody had noticed them for a little bit.
As we boarded the boat, we noticed a strong odor coming
From the inside of that boat.
♪ ♪
- The contents of the boat had been tossed around.
♪ ♪
And the body had been concealed in the cabin.
♪ ♪
- It appeared that the person had stumbled
And fell in the back of the boat.
The body was covered with a foam mattress.
After the mattress was removed,
Decomposition was so advanced,
It was very difficult to determine
Whether or not the decedent was male or female, young or old.
You couldn't even tell the race of the person
Or what the means of death could be.
[seagulls squawking]
- It's the peak of humid summer,
And it's an aquatic environment with extreme moisture.
That, coupled with the size of the vessel,
Create an almost greenhouse-like effect,
Causing the body to decompose at a rapid rate.
♪ ♪
- At that point, the body was taken into custody
By the medical examiner's office that began
An investigation into the cause of death.
♪ ♪
I then went down and questioned the harbormaster,
And harbormaster barris was reporting to us
That he knows that that boat was stationary
For over a week's time.
We were attempting to determine who the owner was
To see if we could get any information
On who should be on the boat.
We were able to find documents on the boat for a gentleman
Named fernando silva.
♪ ♪
We felt like we were definitely on the right track
That he owned the boat.
Next, we were able to look through records
And find out information on family members
Who were local to the area.
♪ ♪
- Upon speaking with family members regarding
The whereabouts of mr. Silva,
They advised that approximately
A week and a half prior, they had made several attempts
Via his cell phone but was unable to make
Contact with mr. Silva.
- We said to detectives that three days before
The big storm came in, my brother, fredy,
Promised his son, kenny,
That he was going to help him paint his house.
♪ ♪
Kenny was very close to fredy and was always around him.
So kenny waited like an hour.
He said, I waited, and I finally realized,
Well, he's not gonna come.
But we didn't worry too much,
Because he was always out there sailing,
Doing something.
And so sometimes you don't hear from him for a long time.
He did have a cell phone, but you
Don't always have cell phone service out in the ocean.
We knew eventually, he would always, you know,
Get in touch with us.
But then after this big storm came through
And we hadn't heard anything from him in a while,
Now you're starting to feel your heart pump a little bit,
And you're starting to worry.
♪ ♪
Everybody was calling everybody,
And they're all going, no, we haven't heard from him.
No, I haven't seen him.
Now the alerts go up a little bit.
He's never gone this long not contacting people.
- We felt pretty positive at that point
That mr. Silva was the person that was deceased on the boat.
♪ ♪
But we knew that the medical examiner's
Office would have to confirm the identity of the body.
♪ ♪
We were able to confirm with the medical examiner's office
Through the dna that it was mr. Silva.
♪ ♪
But with the advanced state of decomposition,
It was hard to determine the means of death.
They were actually gonna have to send
Testing out and get the assistance
Of a forensic anthropologist.
♪ ♪
- And that's when the detectives call my daughter.
I was home alone.
When my daughter got there, she had just kind of come in.
She goes, uncle fredy.
Mom, he's dead.
♪ ♪
And I just dropped.
And the next thing I know, they're like,
Lifting me up and-- and putting me on the couch.
[somber piano music]
I knew he was missing.
I knew we were asking about him.
But it's an unexpected thing to a person.
That was, like, heart-wrenching for me, for all of us.
♪ ♪
My brother, fredy, had a quirky sense of humor
And was very jovial, gregarious.
♪ ♪
I'm ten years younger than he, and he never,
Ever made me feel like I was a tagalong or anything.
- He was a great brother.
He was great with dolly.
He loved her.
He adored her.
- I always remember him as involving
Me in what he was doing.
And he was very much into two things, boats and cars.
[tense music]
- As editor of a local newspaper, I got to know
And made friends with captain fredy.
♪ ♪
He sold his car for 500 bucks, to my recollection,
And bought this sailboat.
I don't believe it even had an engine, was lacking sails,
Didn't have a boom.
- He was lucky enough to find this boat in that condition,
And he repaired it and got it all up and going.
And then he named the "star capella."
♪ ♪
He always told me, there's nothing like it,
Looking up into the sky and seeing all the stars
And the constellations.
♪ ♪
He lived the life of a sailor on the ocean.
He just loved that life.
♪ ♪
At this point, the police are looking into it,
But we don't know what happened.
We just knew he died.
The big question is how?
♪ ♪
Was it a boat accident in the storm?
Did he have a heart attack and just die before
Even the storm happened?
It was a mystery.
And we want an answer.
♪ ♪
[tense music]
- It's been two days since captain fredy's body was
Discovered, but due to extreme decomposition,
Police are still waiting on autopsy results
From the medical examiner and forensic anthropologist
To determine whether his death was a result of the storm
Or something else.
♪ ♪
- In many investigations that we've had before,
We were able to go up to a scene
And see an obvious cause for the person that is
Deceased there.
In this case, it was different.
We had to wait an extended period of time
For the medical examiner's office
To determine whether or not mr. Silva's death
Was a result of the macroburst.
♪ ♪
We very easily could have just sided with mother nature
And sided with the fact that he was an elderly gentleman.
But there's always a possibility
That mr. Silva's death had been the result of foul play.
So we couldn't leave any leaves unturned at that point.
♪ ♪
So while waiting for the medical examiner's office,
We responded to warwick cove in an attempt
To speak with anybody that might have had knowledge
About captain fredy's whereabouts
Over the previous couple weeks.
We were able to speak with a gentleman
Named steven emerson, who was also residing at the marina.
♪ ♪
Steven emerson did remember the boat
And did remember a fernando silva living on that boat.
He informed us that mr. Silva had made prior arrangements
With ducky waterman to be able to place his boat there
At a private dock.
♪ ♪
Ducky waterman's name was a familiar name to us,
And we had had several prior contacts with that subject.
♪ ♪
- Ducky was a local that was about town, sort of a drifter.
- Most of the people that had resided in the waterman house
Were transient, which required neighbors summoning
The police to his address several times
Over my 20-year career.
♪ ♪
We asked mr. Emerson if he had seen anything out
Of the ordinary with the boat or any other strange characters
Coming around to visit mr. Silva at the boat.
And he remembered that on August 1st
He heard a loud pickup truck idling near his residence.
And then he saw two people exit and walk down towards fernando
Silva's boat through his yard.
He exited his house and approached them and asked them
What they were doing there.
They stated that they were enlisted by a ducky waterman
In order to help out fernando silva
Due to having boat motor problems.
♪ ♪
- The fact that there may have been a couple
Individuals seen on the boat in early August,
That piqued our curiosity.
And where was fredy silva at that time?
- Mr. Emerson stated that while speaking
With the two males,
He asked why mr. Silva wasn't around.
And the two males stated that they believed he
Was out playing keno lottery.
Mr. Emerson remembered that the two subjects
Were carrying a cooler, some gas, and what
Appeared to be a motor.
And he believed that approximately 30 minutes later,
The two subjects were seen leaving.
♪ ♪
But he stated that he did not recognize any of them.
♪ ♪
However, he was able to give us
A very good description of the vehicle parked at the marina.
It was a maroon dodge ram pickup truck.
♪ ♪
- We wanted to see if we could respond to ducky's house
And confirm the existence of these two other people
To more confirm mr. Emerson's story
And then ultimately make contact with the people that
Boarded the boat.
But on our way to that location,
We received a call from the medical examiner.
Ultimately, they were able to confirm
Mr. Silva had a broken bone in his neck, the hyoid bone.
♪ ♪
This was due to strangulation and not from the macroburst.
♪ ♪
Also, the medical examiner said that it was possible
That mr. Silva was stabbed.
♪ ♪
Now, we could say beyond a reasonable doubt
That we actually had a homicide on our hands.
♪ ♪
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- On the way to the waterman residence,
Police learned from the medical examiner
That fredy silva was murdered.
Now, it's imperative detectives speak
With ducky waterman about the two men
He hired to repair fredy's boat.
♪ ♪
- We arrived at the waterman household
And saw a male, who we knew as ducky,
Standing in the front yard of the residence.
♪ ♪
Ducky waterman voluntarily came back
With us to the police station.
- Ducky informed us that he knew that mr. Silva was having
Motor problems with the boat, and approximately a couple
Of days prior, had won it big, from what he says, in keno.
- Then ducky said one of the two subjects that
Went down to the boat was a subject
By the name of troy gunderway.
He said he didn't know the other gentleman.
Troy, as he stated, was a white male
With a tattoo on his head
And was currently helping his brother
Install a fence in the next neighborhood.
♪ ♪
We immediately went to the backyard,
And upon talking with mr. Gunderway
About his whereabouts
Over the previous couple of weeks,
He openly admitted that he was requested to assist
With getting a boat motor fixed on a sailboat that was
In warwick cove marina for an older gentleman,
Possibly by the name of fredy.
We asked troy if he had anybody that was with him.
He confirmed that it was a subject by the name of
Richard baribault.
He stated that himself and richard baribault
Had gone down to the boat to attempt to start the new motor,
But mr. Silva wasn't around.
And then we asked him if richard baribault
Had a vehicle that he owned, and he stated that,
Yes, he owns a maroon dodge ram pickup truck.
♪ ♪
This information received from mr. Gunderway just
Heightened and approved the information
That we got from mr. Emerson.
So we felt like we were definitely on the right track.
We know from mr. Emerson that these two people
Definitely entered that boat.
But we weren't sure if that was prior to mr. Silva's death
Or after mr. Silva's death.
We felt that the best thing to do at that point
Would be to question mr. Baribault.
♪ ♪
So we asked troy if he could tell us where richard lived.
He gave us a little information that he lived
In warwick over by the warwick mall.
We responded to the area, and we
Were able to locate a red, maroon dodge ram pickup truck.
Not knowing if it belonged to richard,
We were able to run the registration plates,
And the registration plates were
Reported stolen out of a neighboring
Community of west warwick.
♪ ♪
That was definitely a great starting point.
Instinctively, we thought maybe he did something
Nefarious to mr. Silva.
♪ ♪
After confirming that the registration plates
Were indeed stolen, we decided to complete
Surveillance on the area.
After waiting approximately three hours,
We saw a subject who we believed to be richard enter
The driver's side of the vehicle
And drive away from the residence.
♪ ♪
We waited for the vehicle to enter the roadway
And performed a motor vehicle stop.
[siren chirps]
We were able to speak with the operator, who identified
Himself as richard baribault.
We informed him of the reason of the stop
And that the registration plates were stolen.
In the state of rhode island,
Possession of stolen motor vehicle plates
Is a misdemeanor charge.
So at that point, we had probable cause
To place mr. Baribault under arrest for that larceny charge.
♪ ♪
While doing a pat-down, we also located a knife,
Which was over 3 inches.
And in the state of rhode island,
That is also a misdemeanor charge.
He was placed into custody for the stolen registration
Plates and possession of a knife
With a blade over 3 inches.
We looked closely inside the protective sleeve
Of the folding knife.
You could see what appeared to be dried blood.
♪ ♪
During the autopsy, the medical examiner
Explained to us that mr. Silva had stab wounds.
Maybe mr. Baribault still had what
We believed to be the murder weapon
With mr. Silva's blood on it.
So we needed to question mr. Baribault about the blood
On the knife and his whereabouts on August 1st.
♪ ♪
[tense music]
- When warwick police pick up richard baribault, a person
Of interest in captain fredy's murder,
They recover a bloody knife.
Now, they need to interview baribault and find out if he
Was involved in the homicide.
- We took the knife into evidence,
And then we brought him up to the detective room.
- We were hoping while interviewing mr. Baribault
For the possession of stolen registration plates,
For the possession of a knife with the blade over 3 inches,
We're able to segue into his whereabouts
On the nights in question with mr. Gunderway.
- We began asking him questions,
And he openly admitted that on August 1st
He was, in fact, with troy gunderway.
In this case, richard's story was very
Different than what troy said.
- Richard said he heard that mr. Silva had won about $800
In keno because he was bragging and buying people beverages
At the local establishment.
- For fredy, it was a simple pleasure to have a beer
And play keno because it wasn't very expensive.
- They win a few bucks and buy a few beers
And maybe a few cigarettes, too, and that kept him happy.
But then, maybe two days before the storm, he hit it big,
Way beyond what he had won before.
- Richard said that it was at that point
That troy gunderway had devised a plan
To possibly go rob mr. Silva.
- Richard baribault indicated that they had been on the boat
And that an assault had taken place.
♪ ♪
- Police have two suspects who admit to being with captain
Fredy on the night of his murder,
But they both deny killing him.
Detectives now need physical evidence
To get a clearer picture of what happened that night.
And they know that docks full of expensive boats
And equipment are generally monitored
By surveillance systems.
- We knew fredy silva had been killed
On or around August 1st.
At that point in time, I had probably about close
To 15 years' experience in collecting video evidence
In and around the city.
In that amount of time, I've come to learn
Where a lot of the exterior cameras are held.
The first place I tried to get any video evidence
Was from warwick cove marina.
That marina was right next to the dock
That the "star capella" was allegedly
Docked on and around August 1st.
We first looked at the camera looking down mohawk avenue
And found that on August 1st
A truck matching richard baribault's
Was leaving the marina in the early morning hours.
At this point, we need to try to find angles
Of video cameras that may have captured
The dock where the boat was said to be on August 1st.
Unfortunately, that system had overwritten
And did not have any recordings prior to August 2nd.
♪ ♪
Any chance that we had of actually seeing baribault
Or gunderway walking down the dock, going to the boat,
Coming from there or any assault take place was missing.
♪ ♪
But we did have everything from August 2nd
Until August 20th.
And from there, we were able to analyze over 26,000
Video files, one angle of which captured
The "star capella" in the distance on August 4th
Sailing east up the cove.
There was a figure on the boat.
You couldn't tell if it was male or female.
You could just tell it was a single person
Standing on the deck, driving the boat down the coast.
We compared that with other camera views.
Every time somebody was on the boat,
Baribault's truck had come and gone from the marina.
Looking at the video, we also could
Tell the truck was there 12 to 13 times from August 1st
To August 4th.
But then again, we can't tell due to the resolution
If that's gunderway or baribault.
So we decided to get mr. Gunderway
And question him about his interactions on the boat
With richard baribault.
We informed him that there was some concerning facts
That mr. Baribault had brought up to us,
Which we wanted his information and knowledge of those times
To be explained to us.
- Troy confirmed that he was with mr. Baribault
At that time.
He confirmed that he did go down to that dock,
But, of course, his recollection
Of the incident was slightly different than richard's.
- Troy insisted that it was baribault's decision
To rob mr. Silva and that he was
The unfortunate person that had just gone along for the ride.
But after we had presented mr. Gunderway with the fact
That we could seize all electronic devices,
Retrieve gps coordinates, and with the eyewitness testimony
That put them down at the boat, mr. Gunderway immediately said,
"I'm gonna tell you exactly what happened."
♪ ♪
- When police present suspect troy gunderway with evidence
Tying him to fredy silva's murder,
He begins revealing details from that night
And placing the blame on his accomplice, richard baribault.
[tense music]
- Troy gunderway stated that himself and richard baribault
Had gone down to the boat to rob mr. Silva
Of his keno winnings.
♪ ♪
Richard had entered the boat first.
♪ ♪
And when he had entered the boat,
He startled mr. Silva, who woke up and began
Yelling at the two of them.
♪ ♪
He said, at that time, mr. Baribault
Had punched on mr. Silva approximately
Five times about his face.
And at that point, mr. Baribault
Had taken out a knife that he had brought,
And he was sticking it up against his side and neck area.
♪ ♪
The knife that we had found, we had discovered
Dried blood on it.
We figured it was probably mr. Silva's blood.
Troy said that they weren't able to locate the keno
Winnings and that they very quickly had left the boat
But that they had gone back and forth to the dock
And boarded the "star capella" several times.
- And he acknowledged to moving the boat
To get rid of the evidence that they felt would
Convict them of this crime.
On August 1st, they never called the police.
They never asked for help.
All they wanted to do was get rid of the evidence.
- Then on August 4th, the storm came through,
Went right through the bay.
So they had an idea.
- They ultimately moved the boat
So that it appeared mr. Silva had possibly
Stumbled and fell in the back of the boat
As a result of the macroburst.
So you have the fact that two people admit
To being on the boat, to forcibly touching him,
And the commission of a robbery that ultimately
Led to mr. Silva's death.
♪ ♪
So we placed both subjects under arrest
For the murder of mr. Silva.
♪ ♪
Immediately after, troy gunderway
Wanted to take a plea deal for second-degree murder
And conspiracy.
♪ ♪
- At the time of the arrest
And apprehension of these guys,
Detectives needed us in there to approve the plea deal.
We were all like, no.
Like-- like, he took our loved one.
We're not gonna have my brother.
But they explained to us very nicely that without this guy,
The other one could go free,
Because we don't have enough to make sure
This guy is convicted.
And we said, ok, because we want to make sure they
Both pay for what they did.
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- Despite all the evidence that we had gathered,
Richard baribault continued to say that he was not guilty.
- We felt that it was very important to prove
That mr. Baribault returned to the scene of the crime
Several times to get rid of the evidence.
In an investigation, video surveillance
And gps coordinates are absolutely fantastic.
When you bring them to court, juries really do love them.
So we decided to do a search warrant for their cell phones
And their google accounts.
- When we got the google history back
For baribault's phone, there were searches during the dates
And times in question in early August
That he had made in his own voice.
- When you take all that and put that all together,
It's obviously very incriminating.
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- Richard baribault ended up going to trial.
- Troy gunderway was the star witness for the prosecution.
[gavel banging]
We felt that we had a strong case,
And we wanted to just make sure that the jury knew
Both were voluntarily there.
Both admitted to being involved in the robbery,
Which ultimately led to the death of fernando silva.
And we were able to prove that mr. Baribault
Still had what we believed to be the murder weapon
With mr. Silva's blood on it.
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- When we went to court, that's when
We really started to learn and hear about the actual details.
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I don't want to cry.
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To hear the brutality
Of the assault,
That was a horrible thing.
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- When this evidence was really brought to light
And watching the suspects, it really
Seemed to me that they accepted what
The police had put together and they
Didn't see a way out of this.
[gavel bangs]
- On June 30, 2017, richard baribault was convicted
Of first-degree murder, conspiracy,
Possessing a knife over 3 inches,
Driving on a suspended license, and possession of stolen goods.
- Ultimately, mr. Baribault received life
Imprisonment plus ten years.
And mr. Gunderway, the star witness for the prosecution,
Received 55 years with 35 years to serve
And 20 years suspended.
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- The severe macroburst storm that rocked warwick,
Rhode island, allowed two cold-blooded killers the cover
To almost get away with brutally murdering
An innocent 70-year-old sailor
Over just $800 in keno winnings.
Thankfully, the greedy perps were
Not clever enough to outsmart technology or local detectives.
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- I think fredy would want to be remembered as two lives.
One was his family life, and the other portion of his life
Is what he did with boating and making connections
Wherever he did between those voyages that he took.
[somber music]
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- I wake up at night. I dream about my brother.
I grieve for him, and I still pray for him every day.
Things remind me of him, little, tiny things,
I mean, that we don't have him in our life.
And his grandson will never know him, never know what
A wonderful person he was.
I mean, we're living a sentence of our own.
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