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In 2016, Joey Comunale was out clubbing in New York City and accepted an invitation to a party at an apartment with people he had just met. That was the last time he was seen alive. No one wanted answ...

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This isn't like him, to not call me back. There's something really wrong. Let's go back to November 12th, 2016. A bunch of people were going out to New York City. Joey would go into him and had a good amount.

He would meet all of our friends there. He had hundreds of friends, hundreds of friends.

Joey always had this positive outlook on life.

When you were with him, you felt like you could fly.

He was an athlete, love sports, right future, smart kid.

That night, we went to the guild of Lily. The guild of Lily is in the meat packing district. It's a lounge. He has club type music. It's kind of high-end.

Everyone dresses up. Were you drinking? We were drinking. How would you describe Joey? He looked fine. He didn't look like he was even buzzed.

Three, thirty years old and I was ending. So everyone exits. I remember Joey on my left and these girls were looking at him a certain way. And he was looking back at me and just smiling like that. He was interested.

I get approached on my right side by two guys. And they tried to start some conversation with me. Joey's on my left and they kind of form a group on that side. He jumped in a cab and went off with these two guys. Why do you think he did? You know?

I just don't know, but I guarantee they're saying that they have a penthouse apartment. There's a girls, this guy's dad's a jeweler. And that jeweler was a jeweler to the stars. He's talking about Oprah Winfrey. He's talking about Jennifer Lopez.

He sold an engagement ring to Melania and Donald Trump. Saturday night came in one. I can't get in touch with him.

Has your son ever gone a whole day without texting or calling you?

Nope. I started getting phone calls from a bunch of our friends. Have you heard from Joey? Have you spoke to Joey? Joey's with you, right?

They thought he was at my house. What happened? So I went on Instagram. I went on Facebook. I called everyone on my phone.

We go and we just start looking for him. Sunday. Monday. Tuesday. Wednesdays.

Everyone was still trying to get a clear cut answer to what was going on. Sources say 26-year-old Joseph Kamenali came to this building early Sunday morning with friends. Why? Why are you there? Why did you meet them?

Why did you go out that night? You were invited to go to Sutton Place. You would want to go there. It's like it's own private on-clave that only money can penetrate.

Kamenali's father reported him missing when he never came home.

Let's now go into your mind. The worst. The worst. Yeah. What do you think happened in apartment 4C?

Something went terribly wrong. I met Joey freshman year of college. We've been best friends ever since. Joey was one of my best friends. My best friend.

Best friend. Everybody called him their best friend. But I was the best friend. Joey Kamenali's father, Pat, knew his 26-year-old son well. And at first he wasn't worried.

When he couldn't reach him the morning after Joey went out with some friends. On Saturday night, November 12, 2016. I know it sounds crazy, but in New York things don't really start until late. It's not unheard of for kids to come home at six in the morning. And I figured he's sleeping.

You was sick earlier in the day.

Looking back, Joey's friends like Steven Nassau will tell you that Joey never even intended

to go out that Saturday night.

I think he took a nap like three hours.

But then Joey's college buddy, pre-themed Ivaca Barbu, a part-time promoter.

Texted and offered Joey VIP treatment at the Gilded Lily.

A club then located in the Sheep Meat Packing District in downtown Manhattan. I was working, so I'd be able to take care of everyone that came here. Did you have a worry about him? I worried about Joey because I loved him.

But I knew that he always surrounded himself with good people.

A Lisa libretto dated Joey Commonelli on and off, but mostly on for five years. First, at Hofstra University. And later, when Joey became a sales associate at his father's security company, and a Lisa became a teacher. He is like the rest of us. He wants to have fun, doesn't want any problems.

But that particular Saturday, she and Joey, like a lot of long-time couples, were taking a break. We had a little bit of like a disagreement, and I was like, you know what? I just need a little bit of space. I'll talk to him in the morning. So Joey, headed into Manhattan from Stanford, Connecticut.

We hop on the Mayor Parkway, shoved down in New York City. Joey was with Steven Nassau, and they met up with a group of friends.

It was always a good time to meet people, and that's why Joey and them came out to go to that night.

As the club was closing, you could see Joey and his friends exiting on surveillance video. It was early Sunday morning, and the crowd emptied onto the street. That's when Joey began talking to three women standing outside the club. Then out of the blue, two men joined them. The men did not know the women, and they didn't know Joey and his friends either.

There's six or seven million people in here sitting in the cross paths with us.

At that point, Steven borrowed Joey's phone and stepped away from the group. When Steven turned back, Joey and the group were gone. And this new group that he had met, somebody said, "Hey, you want to go to a friend's apartment and sit in place and continue having some fun." Veteran New York crime reporter Murray Wise covered the Joey Kaminelli story when

it first broke, and is now working for 48 hours. So Joey went along, leaving his phone behind with his friend, thinking, "I'll get it tomorrow, no big deal." There's just jumped in a couple of cabs, and off they went. Steven got word that Joey had gone to a party uptown at someone's apartment.

So he headed home with Joey's phone. Hours later on Sunday afternoon. Back in Steven's apartment, Joey's phone began ringing. It was his father. He said, "Hey, where's Joey?" And I said, "He stayed in the city."

And he was like, "All right, well, something happened to find him for me." So then I went to Joey's place, and he wasn't there. Did you talk to him every day? He talked about the Yankees and the Rangers. Steven got in touch with Pritham, who tracked down the phone number of a guy named Larry,

who had been at the party. Larry told us that. He doesn't know where Joey went. That's when the vast network of Joey's friends got to work. Homing through social media searching for any scrap of information. Friend Mike Mullins says they plug Larry's phone number into Google.

And got a last name. And actually his Facebook popped up, Lawrence Dillon. His, this, the kid. Yeah, that's the kid we were with last night. Max was the one who really put everything in motion. Max, branch and alley was perhaps Joey's closest friend.

He manages a restaurant, but when he heard Joey was missing, he turned himself into an online detective.

Did you ever try to track down or retrace somebody's steps before using social media?

No. You're in a panic and you're trying to find your friend. So, shall we where you started? So, I went on Instagram here. And why Instagram? Why would you start there?

Instagram, you can click on the location of the place and it will show people that posted a picture there from that place.

Here's what Max did. He began using Instagram's locator function for the gilded lily.

Looking for users who had posted the previous night in that morning, he kept his eye out for Joey. As I was scrolling, I landed on the picture. And why did this catch your eye? This caught my eye because I happened to know him in the middle. By total coincidence, Max spotted a friend, Alvin.

That's not the only reason he stopped at this photo.

I know the type of girls Joey chases their dark features and I just had a punch.

I screenshot the picture and I sent it to the group of the guys that were out at the club with him the night before.

And what they said? They're like, "Yeah, it's not going right there on the right." And I was like, "Wow." That woman had also gone to the Sutton Place party that night. Max called his friend Alvin, who had her phone number.

So I then hit her up. Do you remember being with Joey last night? We can't find him. He's missing. And she told me, "Yeah, we were with him last night." She told him that when the party ended early that Sunday morning.

Larry Dillion and Joey walked her and her friends to an Uber. Tell me if they waves and he looked like he was going back inside with Larry. But when Max called Larry Dillion, he said Joey did not go back inside the building. And he's like, "He left with the girls. He left in the Uber with the girls." Those were two very different stories.

At this point, I'm not sure who's lying to me.

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How does a 26-year-old man simply disappear? Joey Commonalli was part of a close-knit, loving family with a younger sister Alexa and parents Pat and Lisa. He loved on the city. He did it all the time. He loved it. When you go to Ranger Games, he'd go to the Yankee Games, he'd go to the Giant Games. Pat Commonalli lives in a tonie part of Connecticut, but he's a Bronx kid at heart.

He moved here, met his future wife Lisa, and found it a successful security firm that he later sold for more than $400 million. But that meant nothing now that his only son was missing. How important his family to you, Pat? Yeah, family's important. That's...

That's everything.

Tell me about his relationship with his dad.

I have never seen a person admire their father so much.

I've never seen a father admire their son so much. They were inseparable. By Sunday evening, with Joey now missing about 10 hours, Pat phone Larry Dillion, who had been at the Sutton Place apartment with Joey. Larry says they walked the girls out to the car, and that's the last they saw him.

But then, Dillion provided one small additional detail about Joey that to Pat seemed off. He said the last I heard of it, he said he was going to get cigarettes. Did that make sense? Didn't make any sense because if he talked to his friends, he'll tell you that he never bought a pack of cigarettes in his life. Joey saw cigarettes from time to time, but he never bought them.

That's why it doesn't make any sense. Pat thought so too. He decided to file a missing person's report. So, I said, all right, let me go to the Stanford PD. By then, Pat had Larry Dillion's phone number,

the On Duty Sergeant called Dillion, who denied knowing where Joey was, but he did provide the names and numbers of two friends at the party. James Rackover, and Max Gemma. Dillion also provided the address. 418 East 59 Street in Manhattan, a building that calls itself the Grand Sutton.

The Grand Sutton is a luxury condo in one of the wealthiest sections of New York City, and apartment 4C was home to 25-year-old James Rackover. You're not expecting an issue in Sutton Place. Sutton Place is a beautiful place to live. No one would disagree.

Over the years, the neighborhoods been home to a parade of celebrities. Including Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, and Rockstar, Freddie Mercury.

What could it go wrong when he upreased her?

Do you know anything about Larry Dillion or James Rackover or Max Gemma at the other point?

You know nothing about them.

But as the days passed, the police would find out a lot more about the three young men,

all in their 20s, who party that morning with Joey. The three young men in this story are young men of privilege. Larry Dillion worked in real estate and came from a well-off New Jersey family that owned through a bread horse's. Max Gemma was a computer software salesman, whose father was once the mayor of Ocean Port, New Jersey,

and had been in business with Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law. But no one appeared to live a more charm life than James Rackover, who was living in Sutton Place.

His father, Jeffrey, had a much larger apartment in the same building on the 32nd floor,

specialized in getting one of a kind pieces of jewelry for the world's rich and beautiful. I grew up in the same town with Jeffrey Rackover. We grew up a block apart. And while we weren't close, our families knew each other. He not only cultivated, but coming a jeweler to the stars, he wanted to be among them.

He was friends with Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys. He came to know Oprah. His apartment has photographs of himself with all these personalities. James enjoyed the good life. He was an aspiring model working in the insurance business.

Loved boxing, and even had a boxer named Gloves, of course.

I think joy that an opportunity to go to a fancy part in New York City into a fancy apartment,

and he went on. And there were those three young ladies along for the ride, Jenna Stissy, Katie Conroy, and Samantha Guardiola. But all the matter to Pat was finding his son. He had already filed a missing person's report with the stamp for police.

But also wanted to alert the New York City cops. So at 9 a.m. Monday morning, some 25 hours since anyone reported seeing Joey. Pat was at the 17th police precinct, where he told M.Y.P.D. detective, Yeoman Castro, everything he knew. Detective Castro, I still remember saying, let's go to the building.

And we jumped on the police car. When they arrived at the Grand Sutton, Detective Castro asked of you the building surveillance video. And then he starts reviewing video. They asked me a couple of times to come and identify if that was my son.

So we did. At some point you see your son. Sorry. Pat was overcome when he spotted Sun Joey and Larry Delion, walking the three women out to the curb.

But then what do you see? We see him come back at the building. So you see Larry Delion and your son walking back in the building. What did that say to you? They're lying. There's a problem here.

Remember, Larry Delion had said, Joey did not go back inside the building.

It was all too much for Pat. Detective Castro asked him to wait at the 17th police precinct. So as I went outside to make phone calls, the Porter started to bring Garbage up. And I ran back inside and I said to the police,

don't let the garbage go. Make sure you search all the pigs. Just kind of had that sense that these guys were lying. There could be something in the garbage. And sadly he was right.

Inside those bags, police discovered Joey's bloody pants. His shirt. And his driver's license. Also tossed in the trash.

A special chain Joey always wore.

Given to him, by his father. I said to myself, I don't think he walked out of the building alive. 14 hours after Joey common alley and Larry Delion were seen on video walking those women to their Uber.

Surveillance cameras caught James Rackover

taking his father's Mercedes-Benz for a drive.

With the help of NYPD's network of cameras. Detectives were able to track some of his movements. They quickly put in Rackover's Mercedes-Benz license plate. And Bing Bing Bing, it started showing up going down the FDR Drive. The car went south around Southern Manhattan.

It then made a turn into the Holland tunnel. But let out to New Jersey. But detectives could not pinpoint precisely where the car eventually stopped. They needed a break. And they soon got it from Larry Delion.

He agreed to meet with them.

And they sensed that there was something that he wanted to say.

And so the detective said to him, what do you want to tell us?

We have a missing boy here. His family wants to know what happened to him. On Tuesday, Delion began talking. The party at the apartment in the week early hours of Sunday morning had been lively, he said.

One of the women video taped some of it on her phone. There was cocaine and plenty of drinking. Delion and Rackover even competed to see who could give the best lap dance.

But by 6.45am, the women left in that Uber.

And that's when cameras captured Delion and Joey walking back into the building and up to apartment 4C. Where Delion says, a fatal argument erupted. Larry Delion tells the police, he has an exchange of words with Joey coming out.

That Joey says something like James got the cocaine.

You know, I got the cigarettes. What have you brought to the table? He kind of pounded his hand on a table. Larry Delion admitted to the police that he just flew into a rage. It slammed Joey, knocked him down and hit him few times.

Delion says that when he began punching Joey, his friend Max Gemma was asleep on the couch. Then Delion says, Rackover, a boxing fan who took pride in his chisel physique, jumped right in. And according to Larry, James starts also beating the crap out of Joey, who's now defenseless and gurgling because he can hardly breathe. Communally, lawyer Bob Abrams has heard Delion's confession.

He claims that after he had beaten a defenseless Joey and almost killed him, Max woke up. They got so very nervous because Rackover is now beating the crap out of Joey that they would do anything Rackover said.

And this is really difficult for me to talk about because

what they did and how they did it is just so horrific. Delion says he told Gemma to leave the room and that's when Delion says, Rackover began stabbing Joey. The stabbing ended Joey's life. Delion says Gemma left the apartment and had no involvement in the murder.

He says, Rackover then drag Joey's lifeless body into the bathroom. He tries to dismember him with a serrated knife. Dismembering somebody is not an easy thing to do. And Rackover was not able to do it. While they plotted their next move, they began a frenzy clean up of the apartment,

mobbing up Joey's blood with bleach and paper towels. All the while, feeling calls from Joey's friends and his father. You're talking to Larry Delion and your son's still in the apartment. And they act like there's nothing wrong. Incredibly evident shows that Rackover and Delion took time out to eat,

placing a delivery order. Then, as shown on building surveillance cameras, they explored the basement, looking police say, for a way to get Joey's body out of the Grand Sutton without being seen. Then, they had another idea. What they do next is totally insane.

As darkness settled on the city, Delion claimed he moved Joey's body, now wrapped in a comforter to the ledge of Rackover's fourth-floor window, while Rackover moved the Mercedes-Benz into position on East 59th Street. When Rackover gave him the class sign, Delion pushed the body out of the window for a floors.

And nobody saw it. We're talking about a upscale apartment,

Midtown Manhattan, and nobody saw it.

The Grand Sutton faces the Queen'sboro Bridge in Manhattan, and it was dark.

It fell into an area where there may have been some bushes and concrete.

And then, when nobody was looking, after Delion came back down, they stuffed the body into the trunk of the car, and then they drove off. Larry had told them that they had driven the body down to Ocean Port, New Jersey, and that they deposited him in a wooded area behind a flourish shop.

It was an area that Delion was very familiar with. He grew up in Ocean Port, a Jersey short town, some 60 miles from Manhattan. He admits to helping take the body and to participate in digging. I don't want to call it a grave, because it's not a grave, a hole,

and then dumping Joey's body in a hole.

But right before they were going to cover up the hole,

rack over took gasoline and started to pour it over Joey's body. And in fact, did like Joey's body on fire. After Delion's confession, police raised out to Ocean Port, and discovered Joey's burned body in a field behind the flourish shop. Exactly where Delion had said it would be.

Two hours later, Sergeant Yoman Castro arrived at Pat Cominelli's home in Stanford. You heard a card door closed? I popped up and I saw the detective Castro. I already knew. Yeah, that was it.

James Rackover and Larry Delion were arrested

and charged with second-degree murder.

What happened early Sunday morning?

Max Gemma, who remember Delion insists had nothing to do with Joey's death,

was arrested later, but he was not charged with murder. He was charged with hindering prosecution and tampering with physical evidence. Gemma was granted bail. All three men pleaded not guilty, even Larry Delion. He challenged his confession.

Same police had ignored him when he informed him he had a lawyer. But the biggest shock was yet to come when it was revealed that James Rackover, who seemed to live such a charm life, was not who he claimed to be. James Rackover was a really James Rackover wasn't. No.

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And I just seemed like there was always more to learn about James.

Or terrible things. To the outside world, James Rackover was a wealthy young heir and would be modeled living in the lap of luxury on certain place. But the man that Larry Dillion claims is the ringleader in Joseph Commonalli's vicious murder. Is not at all what he appears to be. James Rackover was not his real name.

Detectives discovered James Rackover was not the son of celebrity jeweler, Jeffrey Rackover. Police say James Rackover is also this man James Bowden from Brower County. He's an ex-con from Florida, a world away from the understated wealth of certain place. And James Bowden has a rap sheet dating back to his teens.

He spent nearly a year and a half in prison for second degree burglary.

Three months after his release in September 2013, after moving to New York, he reportedly met Jeffrey Rackover at a gym.

They were both working out and they kind of hit it off.

Surprisingly, the multi-millionaire bachelor, then in his mid-50s, soon invited the 22-year-old James to live with him and his lavish grandson apartment on the 32nd floor.

And if anyone asked why the two were suddenly living together, Jeffrey explained it this way.

Jeffrey Rackover told his closest friends and relatives that one day there was a knock on his door. And a young man was standing at the door and said, "You don't know me, but I'm your son." Jeffrey even took the extraordinary step of allowing James to change his last name to Rackover. James claimed he was Jeffrey's biological son. These are the documents.

For name change, they put this in a legal document. James Rackover said Jeffrey Rackover is his biological father. He lied in this document, didn't he? James lied in that document, and Jeffrey Rackover confirmed the information. Communally family attorney Bob Abram says it was all an act.

They're not related. They are not related. Abrams alleges there was a sexual relationship between the two. But Jeffrey's lawyer categorically denies it. What's more, James's defense attorneys Rob Caliando,

and Maurice Cercars say they've only seen a father's son relationship. Jeffrey Rackover provided structure in the life of this young man. Jeffrey paid for James's education and helped him find a job. He even paid James's nearly $4,000 a month rent when in early 2016, James moved into a apartment 4C at the Grand Sutton. After James was arrested for Joey Commonelli's murder,

Jeffrey paid at least initially for James's defense attorney.

What does James Rackover face if he's convicted of all charges?

He faces spending the rest of his life in jail.

Charge was second degree murder and other crimes.

James has set to stay on trial first, before Larry Dillion and Max Gemma. Cercars has a unique strategy. He says James is guilty of covering up a murder, but not of committing one. You were asking this jury to separate the murder from other pretty terrible acts trying to cut up the body, getting rid of the body, burying the body, burning the body.

It is tough, but they are separate things. They say it was Larry Dillion who killed Joey. In October 2018, two years after Joey's murder, James Rackover's trial began. Opening statements today in the murder trial of James Rackover. But Jeffrey, James is the biggest supporter and surrogate father, did not appear in the courtroom.

It was a much different scene for Joey, whose family and friends packed the courtroom every day.

What's been the worst part? Never day.

Pat was the first witness and his emotional testimony quieted the courtroom.

I know it affected the jury, it affects the jury in any murdered case. Prosecutors painted James Rackover as a monstrously callous killer, claimed this phone call recorded in jail, where James Racks to a friend. I don't know if you've been following me. When I search for out December, I'm looking at being a home around October-ish.

My breath's going to be up there, bro. Like my way through. Oh, you're the one who hit the street. They're going to be like, "Yo, this kid's just f***ing beat this f***ing rockie, and he's home. Oh, my God."

Yes, please. Prosecutors called to the stand, women who had attended that party. Venice, Disci, and Katie Conroy. But parts of their testimony helped the defense. Katie in particular said, "Dilion was the one brand of Shane and knife."

He was using it to do coke off of the women painted a picture of him being pretty quick to use this knife for any variety of tasks. James's defense lawyers also point out that he had nothing to gain, but everything to lose by killing Joey. James knew that if Jeffrey ever found out that a dead body had been discovered in his apartment, that was the end of their relationship.

And that had to be factored into account as well when you consider why James felt so compelled to get that body out of the apartment. After more than a week of testimony, prosecutors had a strong case proving to cover up, but there was nothing that directly pointed to James' rack over as Joey's killer.

They seemed to need something or someone more.

And sure enough, they announced that they had a star witness who was going to take the stand.

Prosecutors hoped to seal James' rack over's conviction by unleashing an 11th-hour witness.

Louis Grugiero, a close friend of James' rack over. The new witness turned out to be the troubled son of the very, very popular New York television morning anchor woman, name Rosanna Scottow. Popular and well connected. Rosanna Scottow is as hometownous New York Gats, and her 24-year-old son told the court that he met James, because of his mother's friendship with jeweler Jeffrey Rackover.

The day after Joey commonalities murder, Rugiero said he was working out at the gym when James called him, desperate to talk. Louis testified that James looked strong out, he had bags under his eyes, and he said that James told him, "I've done something awful." There was a kid in the apartment, Laren still leoned, gotten to a fight with him,

kind of knocked him out, and then James says, "I got my own licks in there."

And I didn't want to dead body in my apartment.

So I slid his throat, we then put him in a comforter, threw him out the window, drove him 60 miles, and buried him in a grave, and then he adds, "Don't worry about it, because I bleached clean the entire apartment and nobody will know about it." Rugiero testified he thought James was just making a sick joke, but the reaction in the courtroom was very different.

Gas came out of half of the room that was filled with Joey's family and friends. You could see the jurors actually recoil when he used the word I slid his throat.

It was a stunning moment because Rugiero was the first witness

who directly implicated James Rackover in Joey commonalities murder. The testimony by Mr. Rugiero was very damaging. But defense attorney Maurice Sercar's maintains that Rugiero's testimony was riddled with factual errors.

Rugiero testified that my client slid his throat.

Joseph Kaminoe did not have his throat slid. Sercar's stuck to his defense that Rackover is guilty of the cover-up, but not the murder. On cross-examination, the defense attacked Rugiero. He had a lot of issues.

Attorney Robert Kelliando. In the fall of 2016, he was in the throes of as bad a drug problem as you could have. Rugiero admitted on the stand that he had been spending $1,200 a day on marijuana, oxy cotton, Xanax, and cocaine.

He never called police to tell them about James's confession.

There were a number of reasons to think that Mr. Rugiero might not be the person you want to hang the hat of a murder conviction on. The prosecution rested soon after Rugiero's damaging testimony. The defense then presented only one piece of evidence. The ring reportedly warned by Larry Dileon when the fight broke out.

And why is that ring so important? The ring had a sizable dent in it, and if you conclude that he hit Joseph so hard that he dented it, that certainly is a fact that we would want the jury to consider. And it certainly speaks to who might have committed murder and who might not have. In his closing argument, Sir Cars had won last surprise.

He showed George's four minutes of video where James could be seen in a building elevator. And then in Jeffrey Rackover's bedroom, where Jeffrey is sleeping. Sir Cars argued that in those four minutes, when James was not in apartment 4C, Dileon alone killed Joey. Four minutes was plenty of time.

But prosecutors have a different theory that James was looking for cocaine in Jeffrey's bedroom. Didn't find Danny, and the fight broke out when he returned to apartment 4C, empty handed. After ten days of witness testimony in evidence, the jury got the case. Just got a good justice. That's really it.

Now it's a waiting game. On Friday, November 2, 2018, after nearly five hours of deliberations,

The jury announced it had reached a verdict.

The former James Boden of Florida, now James Rackover from New York, was convicted

on all counts for the murder of Joey Kamanale.

The verdict was greeted with relief and tears. I want to thank the Manhattan District Attorney's office. I couldn't be more proud of the NYPD. And all of Joey's friends. And everybody else who supported us over the last two years.

I can't wait to get these other two sons of bitches to go down just like this ass

part of my language. This picture is me and Joey and Manhattan. Those who knew Joey best, like girlfriend, Alyssa librato. This is actually one of my favorite pictures. It just shows how much I love him.

Our love with their memories.

I definitely thought I was in a married one day, honestly.

You're just a beautiful person inside and out. And my life without him has been crazy. Joey's mother, Lisa, can barely speak about her only son. So this was our last family photo together? What do you think when you take a look at Joey?

Oh, just miss him every day. As a way of remembering Joey, some of his friends got tattoos with a number nine,

which is the number Joey always wore when he played sports.

I do have one.

But of course, Pat Common Alley just had to get the most elaborate tattoo.

Can you see it? So your son's always going to be with you. Yeah, I said, I don't know if you better make sure it looks just like him. And it does. Honestly, I never saw the cake cry. Never one time.

It's ironic. I'm making up for it. The A was a special kid. He really was. James Rackover was sentenced to 28 and 2/3 years to life in prison.

The maximum, Larry Dileone, pleaded guilty to manslaughter for a sentence of 23 years in prison. Max Gemma pleaded guilty to hindering the prosecution and tampering with evidence for a sentence of six months in prison. When beloved family patriarch Gary Ferris went missing, his family looked everywhere on their property until they came across something horrifying. It's a homicide.

Absolutely. The blame game in this family went round and round. This is Bloodesticker, the Ferris Wheel. I would don't see how anyone can look at this story and think they were happy. Binge the full series, Bloodesticker, the Ferris Wheel on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcast.

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