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>> the videotape was kept top secret so the killers would have no idea police were on to them. instead, detectives distributed these flyers to law enforcement agencies all over south florida, featuring photos pulled from the video without mentioning the source of the pictures. three weeks after the triple homicide, they got a break. a call from miami-dade police about a suspect named pablo. >> looked at pablo and looked in our flyer and said, you know what, let me give miramar a call. it looks l...

Testimony from this woman, seth penalvers ex-roommate. >> i pull up in the yard, there is a big black mercedes in the garage. >> on the morning of the triple homicide in miramar, less than an hour after the murders were committed, kimberly ann sam was moving out of this house she and her children had shared with seth penalver. at about 8:00 a.m., sam says penalver showed up suddenly with a friend. both of them looking agitated. >> i said who the hell are you? he said, im pablo. i went straight t...

The story unfolding is a startling and graphic example of the kind of violence that is on the rise in the united states. and in this case, the story apparently isnt so clear cut, despite the videotape that reveals the faces of the two home invaders. the discovery of a videotape that shows butch casey, marie rogers, and sharon anderson being shot and killed was without question a formidable piece of evidence for law enforcement. >> its rare, very rare, that you get a videotape of a murder. >> it ...

Due to mature and graphic subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. the surveillance tape of this triple homicide in miramar, florida, is shocking evidence of a horrible crime. but because it is in black and white, without sound, there is a clinical detached quality to it. the actual crime scene that police found, videotaped and later showed to a jury was all too real. 48-year-old bar owner butch casey, shot through the neck and the back, his head beaten badly. his two houseguests, sharon ...

>> according to miramar police the intruders take off in caseys black mercedes convertible. it is found a few hours later torched in a remote part of palm beach county. two callous killers vanish, believing not unreasonably that their chances of being caught are slim and they might have been right until investigators find this tape in the vcr. >> the the fact that a videotape had been found of the murder where it was kept from public knowledge so that would not interfere with the investigation. ...

>> each friend would say, thats pablo ibar. thats pablo ibar. mind you, they did not know they were looking at a picture of pablo ibar walking out of a murder scene. >> police say even pablo ibars mother identified him from the photo. >> pablo ibar. >> as a result, pablo ibar was charged with three counts of first-degree murder, and three counts of robbery with a weapon. >> counts one and two, there is no bond. count three bond is $7,500. >> the other suspect would prove tougher to find. in fact...

His cover at the end of the killing spree. manzella says he could not wait to show the photo to pablo ibar. >> the look on his face was worth a thousand words. you could just see his eyes and it was just like, where did you get that photograph? and he just pushed himself away from the table and put his head down and at that point, i knew i had something worthwhile. >> according to the police report, ibar told cops he had been at butch caseys bar, caseys nickelodeon, on the night of the murders a...

>> butch certainly had a way with people. and people wanted to be around him. and they wanted to be in his club. and it was a blast. >> the same charm that made butch casey a success in the club business brought sharon anderson and marie rogers to his miramar, florida, home for what was supposed to be nothing more than an early sunday morning drink. >> butch had a magnetic attraction. women flocked around him. beautiful women. >> charm is something casey learned young, growing up in buffalo, new...

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