[foreboding music playing]
[Bailey]
Linda Roberts woke up
about 6 AM,
went to check on her father, Anthony Tomaselli.
She didn't think there was anything wrong with him,
but it wasn't until her sister, Mary Beth Tomaselli,
did a closer inspection of him,
noticed that he was unresponsive,
and started, uh, yelling and screaming,
and she called 911.
[siren wailing]
[Bailey]
Linda Roberts was doing CPR
while Anthony was on the couch,
EMTs took over,
placed him on the floor,
because it's a much flatter surface.
They try to resuscitate him,
but they were not able
And he was pronounced deceased at the scene.
[gloomy music playing]
[indistinct police radio chatter]
[Bailey]
that they all had gone
and they returned back home
and sat on the couch for some length of time,
and Anthony Tomaselli fell asleep on the couch.
[indistinct police radio chatter]
It looked like
just died basically,
Mary Beth Tomaselli
that Linda Roberts had given,
so there's no conflict in their statements between them.
Once it was determined
that there's no foul play,
the body removal service responded,
and eventually, his body was cremated.
Anthony Tomaselli's case
[gloomy music playing]
[Bailey]
talked to the sergeant of the Homicide Unit,
and basically said,
um, he had some information about, uh, Linda Roberts...
actually having confessed to him
that she and her sister, Mary Beth,
had killed their father in 2015.
And during this confession,
Anthony Marsh turned on his phone recorder
and recorded the confession from Linda Roberts.
He said that he plays the guitar
in local establishments,
and the sisters had come in there
to see him several times,
and he is on friendly terms with both.
We were surprised that she allowed him
to have an iPhone pointed at her
as she's talking about this murder of her father.
It wasn't very covert.
He had it on his leg, it was pointing at her
for some length of time.
I just thought, suspicious,
that she wouldn't have figured that out.
We're glad that we had it,
but we did think it was kind of odd.
[Bailey]
and I'm shaking my head probably during the interview,
knowing that this is B.S., 'cause we've learned
so much further than this now, like,
it was time to move forward,
and be the pointy end of the stick.
Um, we decided we're, uh, put both Linda and Mary Beth
in the same room together.
Which was being recorded,
and see if there's anything to be garnered from this.
Sometimes they say a lot of crazy things
they don't tell you during the interview.
[foreboding music playing]
[Bailey]
could be a life sentence.
I do believe that Linda was actually the ringleader in this,
so I think that's probably why she got the higher sentence.
This whole thing shouldn't have happened,
but for Linda and Mary Beth,
he eventually just became too much of a pain for them,
and they decided to end his life,
and that's a tragedy in itself.