and then the shots rang out. danny was hit, mark was shot in the abdomen. i saw my son holding his chest. i nearly was going to make it. why daniel out of all people? one of the sweetest kids i ve ever met. her husband was rushed to the emergency room for surgery. i was just in total shock. you get a call that this is been another murder. correct. a man knocked on the door, said are you marc angelucci. then just started shooting. we were expecting to link up a murder in california to the attack here in new jersey. i just thought this is crazy. nobody safe. i had a feeling that the person probably wanted me. it s personal. this was revenge? most assuredly, yes. that someone would come to my door and take my only child it s unfathomable. hello and welcome to dateline . now esther salas was a proud mother. she and her husband had just spent the weekend celebrating their son s birthday. as the festivities wrapped up, they showed a beautiful
The. And then shots rang out. Then he was hit. Shot in the abdomen. I saw my son holding his chest. I knew he was not going to make it. Why dani edible people. One of the sweetest kids i have ever met. Her husband was rushed to the Emergency Room for surgery. I was just in a total shock. We got a call that there has been another murder. A man knocked on the door. And then just started to shoot. Werent expecting to link a murder in the taconite early. I just thought this is crazy. Nobody safe. I had a feeling that the person probably wanted me. Its personal. This was revenge . Most assuredly, yes. That someone would come to my door and take my only child its unfathomable. Hello and welcome to dateline. Now esther salas was a proud mother. She and her husband had just spent the weekend celebrating their sons birthday. As the festivities wrapped up, they showed a beautiful moment filled with love. Then, heat shattered everything. Investigators questioned if the attack was part of some big
You get a call that this is been another murder. Correct. A man knocked on the door, said are you Marc Angelucci. Then just started shooting. We were expecting to link up a murder in california to the attack here in new jersey. I just thought this is crazy. Nobody safe. I had a feeling that the person probably wanted me. Its personal. This was revenge . Most assuredly, yes. That someone would come to my door and take my only child its unfathomable. Hello and welcome to dateline. Now esther salas was a proud mother. She and her husband had just spent the weekend celebrating their sons birthday. As the festivities wrapped up, they showed a beautiful moment filled with love. Then, heat shattered everything. Investigators questioned if the attack was part of some bigger plot, and raced to unlock the mystery before the color could strike again. Here is the grudge. Summer, 2020. In the throes of a pandemic, a killer had devised the perfect plan for murder. Our guard was down. Because that be
Shell casings are the same caliber used in new jersey. so, this is a real possibility that these cases are connected? yes. where do you go from there? immediately notify the fbi. agent denahan was told the victim in california, marc angelucci, a 52-year-old lawyer, had been shot in his front hallway eight days before the shooting at judge salas s house. were you just shocked when you heard that? it was shocking. we weren t expecting to link up a murder in california to the attack here in new jersey. in california, marc angelucci s colleague, michael can sake, got a call from a mutual friend just hours after the shooting. i can tell that he was crying and he kind of came out and said, marc s been murdered. as a private investigator and former homicide detective, he needed to know more. he started making calls and quickly learned it was marc s roommates father who opened the door. this person said are you marc angelucci? he said no.
But if it was me, i d take the job. [laughs] did that seal the deal right there? that sealed the deal. that was his way of saying, go for it. agents dug through the judges cases. one in particular caught up denahan s attention. it involved a violent crime with the defendant and an accomplice. they had a bad reaction to one of the rulings the judge had made. and they were over six foot two, with a violent criminal history. just hours after the shooting, it was enough to put them at the top of the suspect list. around midnight, that evening, we had moved a significant number of assets towards them. so, secretly watching this person and his accomplice? correct. utilizing cell phone analysis, geo locating where their cellphones was, where they were, and stuff at that nature. but by 3 am, investigators had ruled them out. so, based on maybe where they had been, at the time of the shooting? correct. investigators also looked into judge salas s most