January 27, 2007
CAUGHT!
New York State Police arrested two men yesterday and the Dutchess County district attorney charged the pair with second degree murder for the killing of Manuel Morey. Morey was killed in the small hamlet of Fishkill, NY last week along with his wife and three sons [see UPSTATE HOMICIDE 1/20/07]. The husband and wife were both shot to death, the two older boys Manuel and Adam (13- and 10-years old) were stabbed to death, and youngest son Ryan (6-years-old) was bludgeoned to death before their home was set ablaze in order to conceal the murders. A grand jury will be convened sometime next week in order to tack on the additional charges of murder for the rest of the family.
The suspects are Mark Serrano of Fishkill and Charles Gilleo, Jr. of Hopewell Junction. They were allegedly involved with Mr. Morey as low-level area drug dealers who sold marijuana and cocaine. Apparently, Gilleo was so close to the family that the three boys he wound up allegedly murdering identified him as "Uncle Charlie."
On Friday morning, the police searched Mr. Gilleo’s trailer on Oak Drive in Hopewell Junction. The residence is less than two miles from the Moreys’ home. Neighbors said Mr. Gilleo, a roofer, has lived there for about a year and a half with his 3-year-old son, Kenny. The white trailer with light-green trim was surrounded by state police vehicles and two black vans, and throughout the morning and afternoon investigators, who had obtained a search warrant, went in and out of the trailer.Neighbors said Mr. Gilleo and Mr. Morey, known as Tony, had grown up together and had both attended John Jay Senior High School in Hopewell Junction. They were so close that Mr. Morey’s sons called Mr. Gilleo Uncle Charlie.
“Charlie’s family and Tony’s family were like family to each other,” said Jim Parsons, 41, who lives on Oak Drive. Mr. Parsons and other neighbors said Mr. Gilleo was known for having raucous parties with loud music and for driving four-wheel all-terrain vehicles on Oak Drive with Mr. Morey. They would yell and scream on their A.T.V.’s, annoying neighborhood residents. “He’d act whacked out,” a neighbor, Charlie Barger, 40, said of Mr. Gilleo. “Every weekend.”
On the assumption that they arrested the actual killers, hats off to the NY State Police who managed the investigation and arrests in just under a week's time. That's impressive.
Tagged:Posted by Lexiphane at January 27, 2007 1:34 PM
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