FREEHOLD, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) — Prosecutors are finally revealing what they say is the motive in the murder of a family in Colts Neck. Prosecutors say it was a massacre over money. A New Jersey businessman accused of killing his brother and the brother’s wife and two children was about to be cut off from their technology company after money allegedly went missing from the firm. Web Extra: Read the Affidavit Part 1 | Part 2 A 16-count indictment unsealed Monday charges Paul Caneiro with murder, felony murder, aggravated arson and weapons offense. He also faces counts of theft, misapplication of entrusted property and hindering his own apprehension. The charges stem from the deaths of Keith Caneiro; his wife, Jennifer, and their two young children. Their bodies were found after a fire broke out at their home on Nov. 20. Prosecutors gave grisly details on the killings. They say Paul Caneiro went to his brother’s house and shot him in the back and then four times in the head. His body was found on the front lawn. Keith Caneiro’s wife Jennifer was shot and stabbed inside the home, and their 11-year-old sone Jesse and 8-year-old daughter were stabbed multiple times. Prosecutors say the night before the murders, Keith Caneiro sent an email “to two business associates indicating that there was money missing from the business and that [Keith] would be discontinuing payment to [Paul’s] wife until he cold locate the missing money.” Prosecutors go on to say “The office manager reported that in the past year, Keith has told her to stop payment to defendant’s wife because of arguments with Paul over money.” Prosecutors say they found Paul’s clothes hidden in his basement with Sophia Caneiro’s blood spattered over a pair of Paul’s jeans. They also claim they found arson evidence: A gas can in Paul Caneiro’s driveway. Paul Caneiro has pleaded not guilty. His attorneys have said their client loved his family, had no reason to harm them and had been “wrongly accused.” (© Copyright 2019 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)<doc-sep>COLTS NECK, NJ — New allegations were revealed Monday when the Monmouth County prosecutor's office unsealed the long-sought affidavit in the Caneiro family murders, a brother-vs.-brother homicide that rocked bucolic Colts Neck horse country this past fall. Prosecutors say Keith's older brother, Paul, 51, fatally shot his brother on the front lawn, and then brutally stabbed the wife and children to death inside the house, slashing their bodies multiple times. He then allegedly set the home on fire; the wife and children's bodies were reportedly charred beyond recognition when they were found. Police say Paul then set fire to his own home in Ocean Township, while his wife and daughters were sleeping inside, allegedly as a ruse to make detectives think he was being targeted as well. The devastating murder took place Nov. 20, 2018, the Tuesday morning just before Thanksgiving day. The bodies of Keith Caneiro, 50, his wife, Jennifer, 45, and their two children, Jesse, 11, and Sophia, 8, were found murdered inside their palatial Colts Neck estate at 15 Willow Brook Road; the home was then set on fire. Now on Monday, the Monmouth County prosecutor unsealed the affidavit of probable cause in the Caneiro murder case. An affidavit is a sworn statement by law enforcement officers. Back in November, all prosecutors would say was that the motive was "financial" in nature, and that they were doing a deep dive into the two Asbury Park-based businesses the Caneiro brothers owned together, SquareOne technology firm and Eco-Star PM, a pest extermination company. 1. Paul Caneiro allegedly stole $78,000 from Keith and Jennifer Caneiro. He stole the money sometime between January 2017 and the day of the murders. 3. A red-colored gasoline can was found sitting in the driveway, near the Porsche. A charred rubber glove was also located on the ground in front of the Porsche. 2. The first police response of that day was at 5:01 a.m., when police responded to a 911 call that Paul's Ocean Twp. home (27 Tilton Drive) was on fire. When police got to the scene, they discovered Paul, his wife, Susan, and their two daughters, in their 20s, sitting in the car outside the home. The rear of the home was on fire, and there was a small fire at the garage door. Investigators noticed Paul's white Porsche Macan, parked in the driveway, had brown staining on the hood, "indicative of likely spot pour burn patterns." 4. Three more identical red gasoline cans were found in a shed behind the home. They were all sitting in a row, with a space in between, indicating a fourth gasoline can had been removed from the row. Similar rubber gloves were also found in the shed. 5. The home had exterior surveillance cameras set up, but Paul told police he turned them off because he thought "they were slowing down his WiFi." The last recorded activity was Nov. 20, 2018 at 1:28 a.m. A review of that footage showed Paul walking into the garage and turning off the cameras. The cameras were later found to be hard-wired, and not connected to the Internet/WiFi at all. 6. Two butane lighters were located inside the home, one on a small table in the living room, just inside the front door, and another on the living room floor. 7. When interviewed, Susan told police that she and her husband were sleeping in separate bedrooms, due to marital difficulties. She also said she had never known her husband to turn off the home's security cameras before. 8. Police then reviewed footage from a neighbor's security camera: That camera showed a white Posche SUV leaving the Tilton Drive home at 2:08 a.m. that day. The camera showed it returning at 4:08 a.m. that same night. 9. K9s dogs were then brought to the Tilton Drive fire to search for accelerants: The dogs made several hits. They found an unspecified fire accelerant on the outside of the basement window, as well as near the garage door, under the garage door and inside the trunk of the aforementioned partially burned Porsche Macan. 10. A judge issued a search warrant to search Paul Caneiro's three other cars, parked at the home at the time: In one of them, a Porsche Cayenne, police said they found a backpack containing a laptop, Paul's passport, a 9 mm barrel of a Sig Sauer firearm, accessories believed to muzzle the sound and flash of the gun, plus a night vision accessory that attached to the gun. 11. A large gun safe is found inside the garage at 27 Tilton Drive, where Paul had multiple firearms registered to him. Even more firearms are found in the basement of the home. Ammunition identified as Fiocchi 9 mm, bearing the stamp GFL 10 9X19, is found in the basement. 12. At 12:38 p.m. that same day, a neighbor calls 911 to report that 15 Willow Brook Road in Colts Neck is on fire. Police find the body of Keith Caneiro, shot several times, lying on the front lawn. Shell cases are found by his body. Those shell casings are also Fiocchi 9 mm, bearing the stamp GFL 10 9X19. Keith had been shot once in the lower back, and four times in the head. 13. Inside the home, investigators find a somber, grisly scene: The body of Jesse Caneiro, 11, was found lying on the kitchen floor. The boy had been stabbed multiple times. The body of Sophia Caneiro, 8, was on the landing of the stairs leading up to the second floor, also stabbed multiple times. Mother Jennifer Caneiro's body was found on the stairs leading up from the basement. She had been shot once in the head and stabbed multiple times in the torso. Police previously said Caneiro started a "slow-burn fire" in the basement of the home, one that would slowly smolder for hours before becoming big enough to be noticed by neighbors. 14. A knife is found at the Colts Neck home. A swab was taken from it and Sophia's blood was later determined to be on it. 15. Detectives pull all of the area's 911 calls made that night: They learned that at 3:33 a.m. on Nov. 20, a neighbor 3.5 miles away said he heard what sounded like five gunshots coming from the area of Laird Road and Phalanx Road. He called 911 at the time to report it. Colts Neck police responded but found nothing. Police also canvass residents on Willow Brook Road: A woman who lives nearby told police she couldn't sleep that night and heard five loud "cracks" that sounded like gunshots, followed by a single gunshot. The woman said she recognized the sound of gunshots because there are often deer hunters in that area. She said she remembered the time as 3:10 a.m. because it was displayed on her cable box. An EMT at the scene provided Patch with this photo of the burning Colts Neck mansion. Nov. 20, 2018. 16. In the days after this case, detectives were contacted by the woman who is married to the third Caneiro brother, Corey, 44. She said when the murders occurred, her husband drove their children to Pennsylvania out of concern for their safety; he remained there, but wished to speak with detectives. Detectives drove to Pennsylvania to meet with him. 17. Corey revealed that at 6:58 p.m. on Nov. 19, the night before he was killed, Keith forwarded an email to him that he had sent to two business associates. In the email, Keith said he discovered money missing from the two businesses the brothers ran together, presumably the aforementioned $78,000. Keith said he would be discontinuing payments made in the name of Paul's wife, Susan, until he could locate the missing money. The money was paid to Paul's wife because he was classified as disabled due to a prior car accident. Corey also told police Keith had confided in him he was frustrated with Paul and the amount of money Paul spent from their business accounts. Keith had also told him he wanted to sell one of the businesses. 18. Keith was the primary owner of SquareOne, with a 90 percent share and Paul owning 10 percent. The brothers owned the extermination business equally. The office manager for both businesses also said Keith had confided in her that he was angry Paul was withdrawing so much. In the past year, Keith had also directed her to suspend payments to Paul's wife because of arguments over the money, she said. 19. On Nov. 23, a police cadaver dog did a second search of 27 Tilton Drive: The dog found a plastic container hidden in the basement of the home. Inside were a pair of jeans and a latex glove, with red stains consistent with blood. An unspent 9 mm bullet, bearing stamp GFL 10 9X19, was found folded in those clothes. 20. On Nov. 27, lab tests came back: Sophia Caneiro's blood matched the blood found on those jeans and the latex glove. Paul Caneiro was indicted this Monday morning, Feb. 25, by a sitting Monmouth County grand jury, on 16 counts including murder, felony murder, arson and theft. Those charges were doubled from November, when he was initially only charged with eight counts. Felony murder and theft are the new charges that have been added. If found guilty, Caneiro is facing life in prison. Each murder charge carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment without parole. Felony murder also carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, subject to the "No Early Release Act." Aggravated arson carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. If convicted, Caneiro will essentially remain in jail until the day he dies. Monmouth County prosecutor Chris Gramiccioni has previously said he wished he could pursue the death penalty in this case, but noted that New Jersey has effectively outlawed capital punishment. "If that was a possible sentence in the state of New Jersey, I would have certified this as a capital case," the county prosecutor said in November. "This is one of the most brutal cases that I've ever seen. We won't stop until we bring justice in the name of Keith Caneiro and his entire family." It is not common for New Jersey law enforcement to release affidavits; prosecutors rarely do it. But due to the intense media coverage of these murders, Gramiccioni promised the press last November he would release the affidavit of probable cause only after a grand jury indicted Paul Caneiro. A grand jury did just that Monday morning. Paul has remained in the Monmouth County jail since he was arrested; his lawyers waived a bail hearing. His trial likely won't start until 2020, the county prosecutor said. His lawyers maintain he is innocent. "Today we received a copy of the indictment regarding our client Paul Caneiro," said Ansell Grimm & Aaron attorneys Bob Honecker, Jr. and Mitchell Ansell, who are representing Paul Caneiro. "We are in the process of reviewing the indictment with our client. Under the court rules, we now have access for the first time to all of the state's evidence in this matter, which they believe supports their theory of the case." This previous Patch article delves into the complicated relationship between Paul and Keith, two brothers who by all accounts grew up extremely close in working-class Brooklyn and Staten Island. But in their later years, baby brother Keith — a Columbia business school grad, a self-made entrepreneur with a beautiful wife — appeared to be distancing himself from his older brother. All three Caneiro brothers left gritty New York for wealthy, rural Monmouth County: Paul to a suburban cul-de-sac in Ocean Township and Keith to a $1.5-million modern home on ten acres in rolling Colts Neck horse country. The third Caneiro brother lives in Fair Haven. It was Keith who started SquareOne. In his early 20s, he took a job as a janitor at a computer shop in Brooklyn, and told the manager the only payment he wanted was to take the computer manuals home at night.<doc-sep>
EMBED >More News Videos In this chilling 911 call, a man tells the operator that he found a corpse outside of a burning Colts Neck home. COLTS NECK, New Jersey -- Suspicious of his brother over missing money from two companies they owned at the New Jersey shore, Keith Caneiro emailed two business associates last fall, saying he was going to cut off further payments to his brother, Paul.The next day, Keith Caneiro, his wife and their two young children were found dead in their burning mansion in New Jersey horse country. Paul Caneiro was arrested on arson and other charges.On Monday, authorities unsealed court documents charging Paul Caneiro with murdering his brother, sister-in-law, a niece and nephew, detailing evidence recovered tying him to the killings including clothing and a knife both smeared with blood.An indictment charges Paul Caneiro, 51, with murder, felony murder, aggravated arson and a weapons offense. He also faces counts of theft, misapplication of entrusted property and hindering his own apprehension.The charges stem from the deaths of Keith Caneiro, 50; his wife, Jennifer, 45; and their two young children. Their bodies were found after a fire broke out at their Colts Neck home Nov. 20.Paul Caneiro has pleaded not guilty. His attorneys have said their client loved his family, had no reason to harm them and had been "wrongly accused." They said they plan to release a statement later Monday regarding the indictment.An affidavit filed by law enforcement officers in support of the criminal charges shows tensions brewing between the two brothers, who jointly owned a pair of businesses in Asbury Park.The night before he was killed, Keith Caneiro sent an email "to two business associates indicating that there was money missing from the business and that he, (Keith), would be discontinuing payment" to Paul's wife until the money was found, according to the affidavit. An office manager for the businesses, who was not named in court documents, told investigators that because Paul Caniero was disabled from a car accident, his salary was being paid to his wife. "The office manager reported that in the past year, Keith has told her to stop payment to defendant's wife because of arguments with Paul over money," the affidavit read.Keith Caneiro was 90 percent owner of Squareone Inc. a technology firm, with his brother owning the remaining 10 percent. The brothers were equal owners of a second business, EcoStar Pest Management, both of which were operated out of a single office in Asbury Park.Keith Caneiro wanted to sell one of the businesses and "was frustrated with Paul and the amount of money Paul spent from their business accounts," according to the affidavit.Colts Neck police were dispatched to Keith Caneiro's mansion in New Jersey horse country at 12:38 p.m. on Nov. 20 after a neighbor reported the house was on fire.Officers found Keith Caneiro's body on the lawn; he had been shot once in the lower back and four times in the head.Inside the mansion were the bodies of his wife, Jennifer, their 11-year-old son Jesse and 8-year-old daughter Sophia. The children were stabbed multiple times; their mother was shot and stabbed.Officers searching Paul Caneiro's house in nearby Ocean Township found a plastic container in the basement containing bloody clothing and a latex glove, according to court documents. The blood was later determined to have come from Sophia Caneiro, and her DNA was found on a knife recovered at the crime scene, according to law enforcement officers.----------