Peyton (129:59)
Grant didn't even ask. About halfway into the interrogation is when finally one of the detectives pulls out, like, photos of the crime scene, shows it to Grant, asking him if. If that's, you know, how he left the house. Is that how your mother looked? And, like, shows him a picture of. Of his mother's body, and he does again, like. Or what about Chad and Cody? And shows and shows Grant pictures of their bodies and, like, the whole gory scene. And Grant appears to be very upset, but claims that he had nothing to do with this. Grant said that the family had been blaming him for months for ruining their lives, stealing from them and not following any of their rules set in place. So he might as well be blamed for this, too. Like, he was just being such a deep diva. Grant originally said that he had packed his bag and then left the home around 9:30pm and that his family was fine. And then his story changed, and he said he left around 12:30 in the morning and spent the night in a grocery store parking lot, then drove to a job interview in the morning. Investigators were pushing, trying to get some kind of confession from Grant, but he stood. He stood by his innocence. Grant's older brother Jason, the one who lives on his own and the only member that's still alive, well, besides Grant. But Grant is a piece of. Jason comes down, he's called down and informed about what happened. Obviously, Jason's extremely upset. But they did allow a one on one meeting with Jason and Grant. You see Jason walk in and give Grant a hug and then just sit down and press Grant for some answers, asking him him if he had anything to do with it. Please just tell me. I need closure. I need to know, and I would be very upset if I heard from an attorney or the media that you did it instead of yourself. This is what Jason's saying to Grant. Jason just seems like kindest person ever. Completely devastated that he just lost his whole family and the only one who lived at that house and was still alive had no answers for him. Jason didn't seem like angry or aggressive at all. Just asking for the truth. It's just, oh, it's so sad to watch. Based off what I watched and heard and read in the court documents, it's like it just seemed like this family really cared about one another, and it's just so heartbreaking. By the end of the meeting, Jason tells Grant that he thought he had something to do with it and that he just didn't know what to do. Now Grant, though, stood by his innocence, but also just didn't even say much. I guess he just wasn't much of a talker in general. So it wasn't unusual. Grant was released on the 26th because again, they had no evidence showing that he. He did it. They had no fingerprints, no DNA, nothing linking him to the crime. So detectives knew that they were going to have to build, like, a really strong case against him in order to get a conviction. I mean, he's the only one who had a motive. Yeah, all signs are pointing to him, but there's actually no physical evidence. And that's where they were struggling. So they let him out. And investigators question anyone close to the family, and they get more information about Grant's relationship with his online girlfriend. The money. Kody's girlfriend told investigators that Kody had told her that he was afraid that Grant would kill everyone. And at the same time, time, crime scene investigators are building their case. It was determined that it was not a murder suicide due to Many things. Cody, his body was on the floor next to the door, which led to the garage. But there was no blood on the door behind him or the door frame, which meant that the door had been opened when Cody was shot. So someone had to shut the door after Cody. Cody was shot. Like, if you die, you can't shut a door. Also, it was determined that Cody's body had been moved. There was a pool of blood at his feet and no blood near his head. So it was determined that his body was, like, moved around. Also, it was determined that Cody was shot from three feet away, which, again, proves that it wasn't a murder, like suicide. So it was determined that Chad was shot from behind and that the first shot didn't kill him. So he was trying to, like, move across the floor, and that's why there were, like, streaks in the blood showing that he was trying to move. But then he was shot again while on the kitchen floor. He was again kind of moved around in a way that made it look like Cody had shot him. And then Margaret was not moved, but she was shot from behind at her desk, and that just killed her. Grant was arrested and charged with three counts of premeditated murder. On him, they found a pair of leather gloves, a credit and debit card which belonged to his father and brother, Cody. He also had his passport with him, which led investigators to believe that maybe he was going to try and flee, go see his girlfriend, Sylvie, you know. There was also a handwritten note found in Grant's possessions, signed from Cody. In the note, it pretty much said, I'm sorry for what's going on and I'll take care of it. Don't worry. I'm not going to go too much into detail about what it said because it was later determined that it was written by Grant to kind of feed into the. The murder suicide storyline that he was trying to create, which is pathetic because it was like his own brother. I'm like, so his trial was in July of 2019, and he. He still claimed that he was innocent. Grant's team suggested that maybe someone broke into the house, maybe it was a drug deal gone bad because they had found a small amount of marijuana in the home. So they were like, oh, yeah, they were dealing drugs. How many drugs? There was lots of drugs. Marijuana. Oh, my God. Their drug deal, like, they just found that marijuana and was like, that's it. Drug deal gone bad, you know. Based off forensic evidence, it was determined that Margaret was shot in the head from behind as she sat at her desk. The Last activity on Margaret's computer was at 4:44pm so it's believed that this, you know, kind of started at that time. Cody and Chad were not home yet when Grant shot his mother. Then Chad came home, his father, around 5:30pm he went to the kitchen to put his stuff away, get dinner started. That's when Granted quietly approached him from behind and shot his father. And investigators knew this because on Chad's iPhone was. It was tracking all of his steps through one of those, like, fitness apps, you know, the step counters, so they could see how many steps Chad took. And then when it stopped, then Cody arrived home from work around 10pm and he walked through the garage that connects to the house. He walked in the door, and then that's when Grant just shot him. Then it said that Grant spent several hours at the home moving bodies around and staging it to look like, again, a murder suicide. Remember how I mentioned that there were four bullet shell casings on the ground? And it was determined that the four bullets that were found did not, or the shells, I should say, did not come from any of the handguns that were found in the home. They came from an unknown weapon. And the gun that it came from was never found. Also, Chad, the father, had a gun holster on his right hip, and it was later proved that this was placed on him after his death. There was a spot of blood on Chad's pants under the holster, which wouldn't have been able to get there if he was indeed wearing the holster when he was shot. Around midnight, it was determined that Chad had logged into his banking app on his iPhone using the fingerprint reader on the night that he had died. Also, it was shown that money was transferred from Chad, his bank, to Grant's bank account through the app. Jesus. I know. When investigators looked at Chad's finger, they saw that it had been wiped clean. And it's believed that Grant cleaned his dead dad's finger. Clean the finger, and then used it to log into his. His phone. What kind of special up is that? That's when I read that. I was like, what the. That same night, after murdering his whole family, Grant also used Cody, his brother, his brother's credit card to pay and watch Sylvie sending her over 600 while sitting in his car in the grocery store parking lot at 3 in the morning. Morning. So after he murdered his family, he drives to a grocery store parking lot, sits there and watches Sylvie. What the. Yeah, Yeah. I don't even know what to say. Just unbelievable. So they had found gloves in Grant's Possession at the time of his arrest. And they were taken in to be tested for gunpowder residue, which it came back positive. Grant said that's because he wore these gloves all the time when he shot. But numerous witnesses said that he rarely wore these gloves, like, ever. On Grant's computer, a typed out letter was found by Grant to send to Sylvie and to some of his friends he made online. And this letter was typed two days before the murders. It's long, so I'll give you like, a little summary pretty much. Grant apologizes for lying about himself and confesses is that he isn't successful and that he lives at home. That he lied because he wanted to stand out to Sylvie and, like, get her attention. Grant said that his family found out about the money spent and ambushed him, then forcefully made him go to a clinic for his unhealthy addiction to Sylvie and Cam girls. He then goes on to say that everything his family mentioned to Sylvie was a lie to poison his image. He then says that he will never be able to forgive himself for making Sylvie sad and for betraying her trust in him. He begs for her forgiveness and asks for, quote, an actual second chance, end quote. Then going on to say that he will do whatever it takes to be able to show the real him. This letter is eight pages long, just begging for forgiveness and how he will never get over Sylvie and how he never plans to replace her. And towards the end of the eight page letter, he says, I can't give up on her and I never will. She is my everything. I will give her my life to simply be able to make her smile again. Dramatic much? The jury spent, I believe, like, eight hours and they come back and give Grant his verdict. Mind you, he showed no emotion during the trial, even when his older brother took the stand and just cried over his lost family. Grant just looked like a vampire. Like, he kind of looks like this creepy ass vampire. And he was just cold, balding, emotionless, fragile looking vampire. I don't know, it was just like, so uncomfortable to watch. In the very beginning in, like, the opening statements, I believe Grant started crying when they showed pictures of, you know, the. The parents and his brother's bodies to the jury. And throughout the whole thing, though, just nothing. It was weird. But then I guess at one point, they show the jury, like, a picture of Sylvie on this screen, and Grant, like, his eyes are just kind of like, fixated on Sylvie on the big screen, and it's just like, oh, my God, dude, really? Like, your whole family's dead and you're still Obsessed with her. I don't. Yep. Anyways, the jury decided not to give him a The death penalty. Instead, they sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Grant Amado will be spending the rest of his life in prison. To this day, he still claims that he is innocent. And when approached by media asking for an interview, he said he would be open to doing so only if the company would maybe help cover costs to get him out of prison or if they could put him in touch with a millionaire who would help him get out of prison. Yeah, he thinks that's gonna happen. He still denies. Deny, deny, deny, deny. Even though all signs point to you, Grant. Grant says he has quite a few pen pals in prison and people, you know, support and stand by him and are rooting for him to get out. And you're probably wondering, well, what the heck happened, Sylvie? Because. Yeah, I had questions, too. Some people were thinking, you know, maybe Sylvie was involved somehow, or maybe she was pressuring Grant to do. To do it or maybe to steal the money. You know, maybe something more was going on. Well, I don't really know what happened to her, to be honest. I tried to find out. Okay. I went through the court documents. Mind you, there's like, thousands of court documents, so, I mean, maybe I missed it, but I couldn't find anything. There were two names on the witness list that were blacked out. I'm thinking that maybe that was one of. It was, like, maybe Sylvie. I don't know. We don't know. I'm assuming that Sylvie was questioned, because why wouldn't she be? I feel like that would make sense. But in the opening statements, it was suggested, like, Sylvie may not be her real name. So I was thinking that maybe Sylvie was, like, her Cam girl name, and she didn't want her real name out there in the public, like, when it was, you know, in court and in the media and what whatnot. That's. That's what I'm thinking. But I'm sure they. They questioned her, right? They had to. I personally have a feeling that Sylvie. I don't think she had any idea of what Grant was really doing. I'm sure that she was just, you know, accepting the money from him. I mean, who wouldn't? You don't question every customer that comes into your store. You just take the money, and they get the out. So I feel like she probably didn't know, but who knows? I don't know. So that is the horrible story about Grant Amato and what he did to his poor Family rest in peace to Chad, Margaret and Cody Amato, whose lives were taken because of this selfish, entitled brat who sadly was their own son. Sheesh. Stories like this are just heartbreaking because it seems like this family truly was trying to. To do everything they could for their son or their just their family in general. But Grant, who knows what the was going on with him because he was acting like an entitled teenager, a 30 year old teenager. It's just unbelievable. And like, for what? For some titties? Like, come on, what was, what was his plan? Jeez, so many questions. What a gross human being. Thank you guys so much for hanging out with me today. Let me know your thoughts. Thoughts down below.
