committed, he said, we ll work it out. we ll get him out of ecuador. and that s just what tommy ray did with the full cooperation of ecuadorian authorities. when officials there discovered serrano had actually been a u.s. citizen for years, they deported him to america in the custody of detective ray. in september 2002, nelson serrano walked into a central florida courtroom and pleaded not guilty to the murder charges. after a snarl of legal delays in september 2006, nearly nine years after the murders, serrano finally sat before a jury, the accused in a first-degree murder death penalty case. that man sitting right there murdered four people. in court tommy ray sat a few feet away from nelson serrano. the families of the four victims packed one side of the courtroom as the prosecutor, john aguero, called phil dosso to recount the history of bad blood with serrano.
in september 2002, nelson serrano walked into a central florida courtroom and pleaded not guilty to the murder charges. after a snarl of legal delays, in september 2006, nearly nine years after the murders, serrano finally sat before a jury, the accused, in a first-degree murder death penalty case. that man sitting right there murdered four people. reporter: in court, tommy ray sat a few feet away from nelson serrano. the families of the four victims packed one side of the courtroom as the prosecutor, john aguero, called phil dosso to recount the history of bad blood with serrano. he said i don t want to see your face anymore. because i can kill you someday. reporter: the voice of the mother of two of the victims took jurors back to the horrors of the night captured on that 911 call. we re at erie manufacturing.