from butch casey s bar. butch casey had a number of cameras in his club. one of the tapes showed the bar area. another one showed the entryway. so those tapes would have possibly shown if ibar came in the club, if he came in with seth, or if he came in with rincon or hernandez. they always said that me and pablo were in there that night, at casey s nickelodeon. the general manager came in and said, if you were in that club, you were on the video. the defense has always been told these videotapes don t exist, they don t have them, and they re presumed to have been burned up in the mercedes. but we find those tapes have been sitting in the mirimar police department for 18 1/2 years, no chain of custody. seth s attorneys now petition to see the tapes. we put them in the machine. they re blank. they re snow. we send them down to the sheriff s crime lab. they come back up and say these
are blank, but they re not blank because they re new. they re blank because they ve been intentionally erased. the police department took out the evidence that put anybody else as a suspect, and they basically molded this case to how they wanted it to be read. other police files pointed to pablo ibar s associates, alex hernandez and alberto rincon, who were caught red-handed with ibar at a robbery in dade county. one report referenced butch casey s next-door neighbor who saw a man in a white car outside butch s house on the morning of the murders. it was a mirimar major crime summary, and in it lists all the witnesses, including mr. and mrs. brainy. they live next door to casey. and at 7:00 in the morning they
heard two males voices outside their window. the wife saw a white car with a stocky male outside it. it s the first time we d ever heard of them. a witness says that they see a white toyota outside the house with a stocky male getting into the white toyota. alberto rincon owns a white toyota and is a stocky male. so if it was alberto rincon in the toyota, he s now at the scene, and if he s at the scene, he could be one of the intruders. when rincon was arrested in dade county, police had also found evidence that seemed to link him to butch casey s house. the footprints at the crime scene were never, ever tied to seth. but that home invasion robbery that happened in dade county. when rincon gets arrested, he is wearing sneakers that match the footprints that are found at the crime scene. there was certainly enough evidence to portray rincon as a
the detective paul manzella denied it under oath twice in front of a jury. and john clemenco, i asked, did you ever get a reward, no. no. no. i called paul manzella to the stand and i put those documents in front ofim. i said did you pay a crimestoppers tip? it s your handwriting. it s your notes. and he says yeah. so when that testimony finished watt jury realized is that paul manzella and john clemesco were prepared to swear under oath to something they were lying about in order to have seth panelva convicted. our theory at trial obviously was it was aybar and either rincon or hernandez. why not? they were his buds. couldn t they be the image just
out the evidence that put anybody else as a suspect, and they basically molded this case to how they wanted it to be read. other police files pointed to pablo ibar s associates, alex hernandez and alberto rincon, who were caught red-handed with ibar at a robbery in dade county. one report referenced butch casey s next-door neighbor, who saw a man in a white car outside butch s house on the morning of the murders. it was a miramar major crime summary. in it it lists all the witnesses including mr. and mrs. branyi, who live next-door to casey. at 7:00 in the morning they heard two males voices outside the window. the wife saw a white car with a stocky male outside it. that s the first time we had ever heard of them. the witness says they see a white toyota outside the house with a stocky male getting into the white toyota.