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91-Year-Old Stepdad Has No Idea Her Fitbit Says She Died Before He Left
91-Year-Old Stepdad Has No Idea Her Fitbit Says She Died Before He Left

The Denial Tapes  |  2026-09-08

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On 13 September 2018 a co-worker found Karen Navarra, 68, dead in a dining chair in her San Jose home with a kitchen knife in her hand. It looked like a suicide. The medical examiner said the wounds to her head could not have been self-inflicted. Her stepfather, Anthony Aiello, 90, told detectives ...

On 13 September 2018 a co-worker found Karen Navarra, 68, dead in a dining chair in her San Jose home with a kitchen knife in her hand. It looked like a suicide. The medical examiner said the wounds to her head could not have been self-inflicted. Her stepfather, Anthony Aiello, 90, told detectives he had brought her a pizza on Saturday 8 September and stayed about five minutes. Karen was wearing a Fitbit. It recorded her heart rate spiking at 3:20 p.m. and stopping at 3:28. A neighbour's doorbell camera recorded a car matching his in her driveway from 3:12 until at least 3:33. This is the full record, in order: the welfare-check bodycam from 13 September, the officers who found him on his own street the next morning, the arrest on 25 September, and the interrogation at the San Jose Police Department Homicide Unit, where he is shown the two clocks and asked to explain the twenty minutes between them. Anthony Aiello was arrested on 25 September 2018, charged with murder and pleaded not guilty. He died in custody on 10 September 2019, aged 91, before the case reached trial. The charge was dismissed. He was never convicted, and nothing in this video should be taken as a finding of guilt. Chapters 0:00 The denial 0:53 The welfare check, 13 September 2018 5:50 The street and the kitchen table, 14 September 13:01 The two clocks 14:59 The arrest, 25 September 17:21 The interrogation 42:21 I'm done Sources: San Jose Police Department Statement of Facts, case 18-256-0715 (Det. B. Meeker, 26 Sep 2018) · ABC News · CNN · KTVU · NBC Bay Area · CBS San Francisco · Fox News · San Jose Inside · Patch. All interrogation and bodycam recordings are San Jose Police Department recordings as publicly released, used for commentary and reporting. Some scene-setting shots are licensed stock or illustrative reconstructions; no face on screen is generated. The Denial Tapes: every interrogation, in order. Subscribe for the next tape.

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