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 like this might be their guy. 22-year-old pablo ibar was already in the dade county jail, a suspect in another violent home invasion in southwest miami. the police report in that case described a vicious 3:00 a.m. break-in. one of the suspects, the report said, threatened to disembowel a pregnant woman with a meat cleaver. i put it to his face and said, how i did get this, pablo? former miramar police detective paul manzella had this photo taken from the videotape of the suspect who had dropp
testimony from this woman, seth penalver s 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, i m pablo. i went straight through the kitchen, out through that little door and through the garage and that s where i seen seth. and i m like, what the hell are y all doing? then sam says she looked at the washing machine and saw what she claims was a clear attempt to launder away evidence, bloody clothes. and there was pink bubbles spewing out of the washer. i lifted it up and it was real pink.
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 isn t 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. it s rare, very rare, that you get a videotape of a murder. it still didn t tell investigators in miramar, florida, the names of the killers. but police did catch a major break when one of the gunmen pulled off the shirt covering his face as he exited the crime scene. we used the videotape to copy stills of the images that we found on the tape to try to identify the persons without letting anyone else know that there was a videotape involved.
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 anderson and marie rogers, each shot at point-blank range through the back of the neck. sudden, cruel death had snatched three vibrant lives.
according to miramar police the intruders take off in casey s 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. miramar police keep the existence of the tape top secret, but they quietly produce still photos from the video and then show them to possible suspects. when he viewed this his eyes got so big and he had this oh look on his face like where did you get this photograph?