MIAMI BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) - Newly obtained surveillance video captures a person making a deadly discovery inside the trash chute of a Miami Beach apartment building.
The man appears to check the trash of the building located on 800 Washington this past July 19 around 9:30 p.m. Inside, police say, he found the nearly decapitated, bloody body of Elizabeth Caruso.
According to Miami Beach Police, Elizabeth was brutally killed by her son, Anthony, inside his Miami Beach apartment, hours earlier.
Detectives say Elizabeth had flown into town from New Jersey to conduct a welfare check on her 40-year-old son after not hearing from him in a few days.
Video captured the victim speaking to receptionist at the hotel lobby where she was staying at.
Hours later, police say, she would be dead.
Cameras inside the apartment complex shows Anthony in a red shirt around 7 p.m. waiting for an elevator. It’s unclear when the killing occurred.
But ultimately, Anthony was arrested by SWAT members who had to use a Taser to remove him from his seventh-floor apartment after he barricaded himself.
In court, detectives pointed the finger at Anthony.
“Who do you believe killed the victim?” Judge Mindy S. Glazer asked the detective.
“Mr. Caruso,” the detective told her. “There’s a lot of blood in that apartment.”
But it wasn’t the first time Anthony had a run-in with the law. About a year prior to the killing, body camera footage shows him getting zapped by an officer’s Taser after an alleged assault on a tourist.
Months later, detectives say he set fire to a Miami restaurant, for which he remains on probation. 7News broke the story of his arrest and cameras captured him being booked into jail.
He faces a second-degree murder charges and remains behind bars awaiting trial.
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