The married New Jersey tech boss accused of slaughtering his brother, sister-in-law and their two youngsters over cash bankrolled a lavish globe-trotting life-style for his secret gal pal, she admitted in court docket Tuesday.
Paul Caneiro, a financially struggling 59-year-old dad, was dropping huge bucks to device himself round in three Porsches — whereas jetting off on posh holidays with 51-year-old Colombian buddy Yisel Restrepo, she advised a jury in Monmouth County Superior Court docket in Freehold.
Caneiro is going through homicide fees for allegedly repeatedly capturing his business-partner youthful brother Keith, 50, within the head, capturing and stabbing Keith’s spouse Jennifer, 45, and repeatedly stabbing their youngsters, 11-year-old nephew Jesse and 8-year-old niece Sophia, within the household’s Colts Neck mansion in 2018.
The jurors have been barred from listening to that Caneiro and Restrepo have been sleeping collectively. However Restrepo was in a position to testify that she and Caneiro met at a restaurant in Asbury Park and have become greatest buddies as she laid out the extent of his monetary help of her.
Restrepo, testifying by way of a Spanish translator, mentioned Caneiro paid for the pair to journey to her house nation two occasions and in addition for his or her jaunts to Las Vegas, North Carolina, Boston and New York. The duo each lived in Ocean Township.
Caneiro additionally shelled out the cash for her new luxurious Audi Q5 SUV, she mentioned.
“You don’t have any unhealthy issues to say about Paul, proper?” requested Caneiro’s lawyer, Monika Mastellone.
Restrepo answered, “No.”
She mentioned the final time she noticed Caneiro was once they went to dinner collectively two or three days earlier than the murders to have a good time her daughter’s birthday.
Prosecutors have advised the jury that Caneiro murdered his brother after Keith confronted him about stealing $78,000. The 2 companies the brothers shared — a tech agency and an extermination firm — have been struggling, and Paul was residing above his means, prosecutors mentioned.
Caneiro’s money movement to Restrepo was simply one other monetary suck on his over-leveraged life, the prosecution mentioned.
The suspect and a 3rd brother, Corey, stood to separate Keith’s $3 million life-insurance cash if Keith’s entire household died.
Caneiro, slightly then admitting to a furious Keith that he took the cash from Keith’s belief meant to fund his life-insurance coverage, massacred his sibling and his household just some hours after Keith confronted him concerning the lacking funds, prosecutors mentioned.
The suspect went to Keith’s custom-built manse Nov. 20, 2018, minimize the facility, turned off the generator and ambushed his brother when he went to verify on the facility. He shot Keith within the head a number of occasions, prosecutors claimed.
Then Paul went inside the luxury house and slaughtered the remainder of his brother’s household.
To cowl up the slayings, Paul set a slow-burning hearth on the mansion and returned to his personal Ocean house. There, he began a blaze to make it appear like he was additionally being focused, prosecutors claimed.
Earlier Tuesday, the jury heard from Keith’s neighbor about discovering Keith’s physique exterior the burning house that day.
Boris Volshteyn, a plastic surgeon, mentioned the native landscaper referred to as him about smoke in Keith’s yard, so Volshteyn went to take a look at what was happening.
“Oh my God. There may be blood right here,” Volshteyn could possibly be heard saying on a 911 name performed for the jury. “It’s a corpse. Anyone is useless right here.”
Paul pleaded not responsible and has been behind bars since his arrest.
