The New Jersey tech boss convicted of killing his brother and his brother’s household of their upscale Colts Neck mansion in 2018 was sentenced to die in jail Tuesday — because the decide slammed him as a “heartless, brutal killer.”
Monmouth County Choose Marc Lemieux sentenced Paul Caneiro, 59, to the necessary penalty of 4 life sentences with out the potential of parole.
“On this case, there was an avalanche of proof pointing to the defendant being a callous, heartless, brutal killer,” Lemieux stated on the Tuesday sentencing.
“This was an annihilation of a complete household, a mass homicide carried out by an individual who ought to have protected them essentially the most… as a result of the defendant constructed lies that had been collapsing down round him,” the decide added.
“He was and continues to be a manipulative, cold-blooded killer.”
Caneiro was convicted by a jury in February of taking pictures his enterprise associate brother, Keith Caneiro, 50, outdoors the sibling’s mansion earlier than going inside and taking pictures and stabbing Keith’s 45-year-old spouse, Jennifer, on Nov. 20, 2018.
Paul then stabbed his niece and nephew, Sophia, 8, and Jesse, 11, earlier than setting the house on fireplace and returning to his personal Ocean Township home, lighting a blaze there too to make it seem as if he was additionally being focused. Paul’s spouse and two daughters had been unscathed.
Jennifer’s mom, Bette Karidis, advised the decide forward of sentencing that “a thousand years wouldn’t be sufficient” of a punishment for Paul, whom she slammed as a “monster” and “pure evil.”
“In an act of pure evil, he took the life of 4 harmless folks,” Karidis stated. “His personal flesh and blood out of grief and selfishness. He disgusts us.
“He stole the supply of pleasure and happiness in our lives and changed it with bottomless disappointment, sorrow and grief.”
Jennifer’s sister, Bonnie Karidis, known as for the harshest sentence attainable, saying Paul “should be faraway from society.”
“The sheer malice and betrayal is insufferable,” Bonnie stated. “They had been executed and tortured by somebody who was household … they welcomed him into their house and he took their lives for materials wealth.
“The satin on this room stole many years of laughter, holidays, graduations and weddings from all of us for momentary materials wealth,” Bonnie stated.
Paul appeared on somberly, carrying yellow jail garments. He didn’t converse in courtroom however his lawyer Monika Mastellone stated he “maintains his innocence.”
“The quantity of loss and devastation is really immeasurable,” Mastellone stated. “There may be nothing I can say to mitigate that tragedy.”
Paul was pushed to the grisly slayings in a bid to silence Keith after the youthful brother confronted Paul about stealing $80,000 from Keith’s belief meant to fund his life insurance coverage coverage, prosecutors alleged at trial.
Paul — who owned a tech firm and an extermination firm with Keith — was struggling financially, paying for 4 luxurious vehicles and bankrolling journeys along with his gal pal Yisel Restrepo, prosecutors claimed.
In the meantime, Paul’s lawyer, Monika Mastellone, argued at trial {that a} third Caneiro brother, Corey, could have truly been chargeable for the murders and framed Paul.
Paul would forfeit his share of Keith’s $3 million belief if convicted of homicide, leaving Corey as the only real heir, Mastellone argued.
And Paul cherished Keith and his household an excessive amount of to ever be able to murdering them, the protection lawyer argued.
Paul cried when Mastellone described how shut he was to the victims.
Paul additionally wasn’t truly overextended like prosecutors contended, since he was accumulating $200,000 in incapacity funds and the extermination firm was doubtlessly going to be bought for lots of of hundreds of {dollars}, Mastellone argued.
The jury discovered Paul responsible of all fees, together with homicide, aggravated arson, weapons possession and hindering apprehension.
