Ricky D'Antuono

Key Points

• D'Antuono testified that when he arrived at 34 Fairview Road, a vehicle was parked in front of the house with either taillights or brake lights on. Asked whether he saw anyone in the front passenger seat, he said he did not look inside the SUV.
• When asked directly about damage to the parked SUV, D'Antuono answered 'None' — a one-word response that carried significant weight given that his Ford F-150's headlights would have been aimed directly at the rear of the vehicle from approximately 20 yards away.
• On cross-examination, Yannetti established that D'Antuono saw no broken taillight, no person outside the SUV, and no one lying in the street when he left the scene — conditions central to the defense's argument that the taillight was not broken at the time Read dropped off O'Keefe.
• D'Antuono testified that snow was just beginning to accumulate when he was at the scene — a dusting on the lawn but not inches — corroborating the timeline of snowfall and contrasting with the heavier accumulation visible in later evidence photographs.
• The defense established that investigators waited over a year to interview D'Antuono, with his first statement coming approximately 16 months after the incident, a delay the defense used to highlight the scope of what it characterized as a delayed and deficient investigation.