NJ tech boss Paul Caneiro condemned as heartless, brutal killer as hes sentenced to die in prison for murdering his brother and family

The New Jersey tech boss convicted of killing his brother and his brother’s family in their upscale Colts Neck mansion in 2018 was sentenced to die in prison Tuesday — as the judge slammed him as a “heartless, brutal killer.”Monmouth County Judge Marc Lemieux sentenced Paul Caneiro, 59, to the mandatory penalty of four life sentences without the possibility of parole.“In this case, there was an avalanche of evidence pointing to the defendant being a callous, heartless, brutal killer,” Lemieux said at the Tuesday sentencing.“This was an annihilation of an entire family, a mass murder carried out by a person who should have protected them the most… because the defendant constructed lies that were collapsing down around him,” the judge added.“He was and continues to be a manipulative, cold-blooded killer.”Caneiro was convicted by a jury in February of shooting his business partner brother, Keith Caneiro, 50, outside the sibling’s mansion before going inside and shooting and stabbing Keith’s 45-year-old wife, Jennifer, on Nov.20, 2018.Paul then stabbed his niece and nephew, Sophia, 8, and Jesse, 11, before setting the home on fire and returning to his own Ocean Township house, lighting a blaze there too to make it appear as though he was also being targeted.

Paul’s wife and two daughters were unscathed.Jennifer’s mother, Bette Karidis, told the judge ahead of sentencing that “a thousand years would not be enough” of a punishment for Paul, whom she slammed as a “monster” and “pure evil.”“In an act of pure evil, he took the life of four innocent people,” Karidis said.“His own flesh and blood out of grief and selfishness.

He disgusts us.“He stole the source of joy and happiness in our lives and replaced it with bottomless sadness, sorrow and grief.”Jennifer’s sister, Bonnie Karidis, called for the harshest sentence possible, saying Paul “must be removed from society.”“The sheer malice and betrayal is unbearable,...