![]() "Here's a guy that feels so close and so confident telling you and you're just gonna go right around and stab him in the back," Morel says.ĭetectives followed in an unmarked car, recording every word of what turned out to be a chilling tale of murder. But this time Jim was wearing a wire, secretly pumping his friend for details of Marina Calabro's murder - and he was feeling very guilty about it. In October 2002, the two were doing what they had done a thousand times before: just driving around Norton and hanging out. Three days later, Morel was wired and braced to betray his friend. To his even greater surprise, the police liked the idea. Indignant, he volunteered to wear a wire, convinced he could get Weir to confide again. To his surprise, the police seemed to suspect him. "I was thinking I was going to do this all anonymously, no one would ever know anything about me - walk in, walk out, and I did my part and I wouldn't have to do anything," Morel explains. That same night, Morel told his father - and together they went to the police to report to the murder. It is someone that did not deserve to die." "Holding on to a secret like that would completely change who you are," Morel says. "It's like a friend you grew up with and it's like such a horrific thing," he says,Īsked why he thinks Weir suddenly decided to tell him, Morel says, "Because he had a lot of trust in me." That trust left Morel panicked over what to do: betray his friends or protect their terrible secret? He knew his friends weren't angels - but would they, and could they, really murder an 84-year-old woman? "He was kinda keeping a lookout," he says. Morel says Anthony was downstairs waiting in the car. ![]() I'm like, 'What were you doing? What involvement did you have?' And he said, 'I was just freaked out,'" he says. I'm like, someone is doing this to your grandmother - I don't know," Morel says.ĭid Morel ask Weir what he was doing at the time? And in my mind, I'm picturing my grandmother. "He said, Tom Lally beat her with a frying pan. He's like 'Tom beat her to death.' I was just like that was pretty shocking," he says. I'm like, 'Well, what do you mean?' Like - oh. Jim was still reeling from the shock of that news when 48 Hours first spoke with him three months later. The medical examiner soon confirmed that the death was an accident. The police took photos but more or less as routine, they believed Marina Calabro had taken a terrible fall while carrying a bag of trash. Anthony called the police to report that he and Lally had come home and found her dead, lying at the bottom of the stairs. Whenever they pleased, Marina even let Anthony's friends crash at her house - which, at 84, she still maintained herself.īut just days before Christmas 2001, Marina Calabro's independent life came to tragic end. She had never married or had children of her own, and she doted on Calabro like a favored son, dipping into her savings to support him. Marina only had recently retired as a hairdresser. Because aunt Marina had morals, rules," she says. "The truth is, I thought it was the best thing for him. His aunt Donna Strassell was happy to hear the news. ![]() In the summer of 2001, Anthony Calabro - then at odds with both parents - left Norton and moved into the Quincy, Mass., home of his 84-year-old great aunt, Marina. "Whether it was a broken home or a troubled childhood, we were all just a little different, and that's why we really kind of just came together in this group of social misfits in some way or another and we became kind of our own family," Morel explains. Their backgrounds made the four a perfect fit. ![]()
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