Murder on Cortes Island - The Fifth Estate
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 มี.ค. 2019
- In 2010, a wealthy artist was killed in his home on a remote island in B.C. Nearly a decade later, the mysterious death is now a cold case. Fifth Estate producer Harvey Cashore returns to Cortes Island, a place he calls home, to search for clues in the brutal murder of Stefano Savioli.
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is there a third part?
The wife had something to do with it. She was not at home the night he was murdered because she knew what was going to happen. No innocent person would be mad at someone trying to find out who killed him. 🤦♀️🙄
Well said!!!!
At the very end we hear the ex girlfriend say that if it was an act of rage, then she doesn’t want them to find out about it. Why? Maybe he did hate western women and he was killed for being an abusive monster. Not saying that justifies murder at all, but if it was done by his wife or perhaps her son then maybe the big secret on Cortez is that she’s being protected by those who knew or highly suspected that one of them finally snapped. Btw....did I miss something? Do we know where, exactly, they were when he was killed?
Tamitude Exactly she’s protecting her son which I’m confused what his age was in 2010... was he 16? She met him in 90s he looked about 6/7 could be possible son got fed up w watching abuse n Mother feeling trapped and who else would know where he lived in that twist n turn road to his house? Who else would’ve killed him like that... not the Mafia they shoot??
You are right on nailed it but why isn't RCMP not doing anything about this?
Especially your husband!!!
The wife did it. She was a strong, opinionated woman and she hit her breaking point.
If the wife really loved her husband she would not reacted like she did. Quite the opposite - help them to catch the killer ...
Outsiders coming to Cortez to take up old ghosts are not welcome you've never been there you're probably from a city you don't understand the mentality also unless you've been a severely abused woman you don't know s*** about keeping your mouth shut
That's quite the blanket statement. People don't react the same
Moocyfer 2.0 What a violent and snowflake reaction. Not all abused women are prevented by the abuser from leaving. Some men want their spouses to leave so they can start again. Don't make out all women as victims. Many do not leave abusive relationships because they are needy or do not want to let go of their priveleges. Duh, 🙄🙄🙄
@@elysian5028 - Exactly. She murdered him. Do you do 2?
@Non Descript. I'm brewing one up if you want to come over for a snack? There's definitely something sweet.....down below.....for desert too. Are you talking your Dangleberries too? They can dangle around here no prob's. You're weird. Goodbye.
I have a feeling the wife is involved in some way.
Surely,she has the easiest access for the murder,
michael debolt it is obvious a crime of passion.
@@aqualive8860 seems that way to me. A remote location and an even remoter house and a man who can be violent.
@Mr. Kim Not surprising. The crazy, indoctrinated cancerous liberals blame him for everything else.
@@Wardup04 Ffs, do you 'hear' yourself??? And you're calling OTHER people crazy?!?! You should really get a grip on yourself... life's too short to be so angry over political affiliations & at people who you don't even know!
It would make sense if the son did it also and she's covering up for him. Like she said, it's not good for a son to see his mom being beaten and became to hate his step father. The son waited until he was asleep and killed him.
Nope, someone back in her old country did it, like her brother or uncle. Lots of money was involved
It was a crime of passion. The mafia would never dispatch men in black suits to stab someone to death, their form of execution is a bullet to the head, this was far too personal. Look closer to home.
How old was Abigail's son at the time of the murder? Did he do it to protect his mother? If he was abusive before he'd be abusive again. Maybe that's why she doesn't want to talk about it and the locals as well. Just a theory...
Yep, Peggy. You’re right about this, I think.
Rodrick Evans and you do? The mafia has assasssins that are trained for contract killings. They do it the fastest and least messy way possible. Why would someone with access to a gun, instead chose to get up close and personal to the victim with a knife? Aside from the fact that he would be covered in blood, it would be too easy to lose contol of the situation. They want to get in and out and get the job done as quickly and easily as possible. They want to leave as little trace of themselves as they can, which is why the gun. Knives are for amateurs, these people are anything but.
This was a crime of passion, done by someone without access to a gun. He was stabbed multiple times, indicating rage, and anger. Mafia killings are professional, rage doesn't enter into it, it's a business, done cooly, calmly, and from a distance, not up close enough to be covered in the victim's blood, it's not personal.
@@peggygreeby5065 unless they wanted to make it look like it wasn't a mafia hit job, in which case they would make it look like a crime of passion to try and have it blamed on an islander... if it wasn't a professional job then, as you say, there would have been some evidence left behind or the person responsible would have been found out by someone sooner or later.
@@shirleya-z794 but why? The mafia really doesn't care if you know it's them or not, it's what can be proven. That's why they have hit men, they kill and disappear. Maybe that's why the wife left the island and won't return.
Also how good a police department do you think they have on that little island? If it was the wife, finding her fingerprints and DNA wouldn't prove anything, as she lived there.
"As a last resort, I decided to contact the much-younger spouse who stood to inherit his wealth."
Good idea, Sherlock!
That's a dead. give away!! it's ashamed that it is so hard to find a woman you actually trust who isn't always about money
twown Hahahaha!! I was thinking this all along. Wife killed him! Dah.
GHustle4 you're attracted to materialistic women. Take some responsibility for the types you choose to pursue.
Lol
@@user-zq1lb3lx4m I'm normally better than that. Thanks. :)
Of course the wife did it! Pretty simple and straightforward.
I don't know how this ends, but from the start I suspected it was Abigail. Now we get to the part where Abigail is upset that he's investigating? Guilty.
You can't just say someone is guilty. You and others here and extremely far from being investigators or being qualified at all to say who murdered someone brutally. There have been many cases where people acted extremely suspiciously and were cleared by things as strong as DNA.
Don't get soo serious
. geez.opinions are like assh...s everyone has one..even you my friend 😅
Not gonna lie. Once I heard about his abusive behavior, I could care less about his murder being solved.
Exceptionally well-crafted piece. Video journalism doesn't get better than this.
"This is a Cortes Island I never knew". Abuse is everywhere. But hearing how defensive Abigail is I would look closer at her. If she killed him she should pay. Divorce is the civilized way to handle freedom.
His wife is involved, why else wouldn't she welcome extra help in solving a "mystery"? Also, this small town mentality is a scary thing where more than 1 person could know but because the town's people is a closed community they will protect each other and shut out outsiders for their greater good
Yep like I said 'village mentality '😮teehee
Canadian journalism 101:
Interviews your friends, island locals, and stoned out art teachers.
Did he learn that at Cornell?!
Seems a little strange that the local police don't even know the case, an open murder less than 9 years ago. Somebody might disclose something one day, it's hard to keep a secret for so long.
they know of it but no specific details, those are street police not detectives.. as well Canada likes to send rcmp members into areas for contracted time periods. i highly doubt those rcmp officers are the same ones employed there years before. likely a 1-3 year turn around.
The shirtless painter guy with the dog draped over him is cracking me up. I'm wondering if the dog is unable to walk or something.
Stoned probably.
Maybe the dog committed the murder and he is just trying to protect it.
Melted my heart... That guy shows truth in the statement, 'A man's best friend is, his 🐕'
His car is really West Coast.
I love that guy. I love how he broke the bro code & snitched out Stefano for wife beating.
Always is the husband if the woman dies....so what is the difference now???
When I found out my ex husband cheated on me and I infected me with an incurable std. I forgave, but when he became abusive and made threats to kill me I checked out.
Man,! That looks like a beautiful place-Cortes Island.
Lura check the Island in winter. 🙈🙈🙈🙈
I'm sure it's a fantastic place to live for a month or two every year. Then there's the 9 month long canadian winter...
I say, forget it.
Antonio Ferrer I don’t disagree completely because the mild winter coastal climate can be long and dreary IF it’s an especially wet/ damp year with long periods of minimal sunlight. We do get many winters that can be so mild that the damp, grey weather comes and goes, and we get a lot more sunshine. You can get by with jeans, sweaters, lighter jackets etc. Beautiful days and warm cozy nights. I’ve lived here my entire life. Not on Cortez but on a south coast peninsula, that takes 2-3 ferries to get to. Cortez is 2 ferries and maybe 3-4 hours from where I live. I always feel better in the spring and summer months though. I admit it. 😎🇨🇦❤️✌🏽 Pros and cons 🤷🏼♂️
IslandBillies
@@antwan37 9 months... ? lol Anyway, this is in BC... remember?
Stayed tuned over the next few months?
There is a part two listed at the top.
I like how the narrator speaks. Even though I'm not good in english. I can clearly understand the story because of him. Thank you😉
Half way through this video it's great...thee wife did. It .
😮😮
Wow! What a brilliant start to a true crime documentary! Beautifully done - I'm really impressed!
Sounds like his violence finally caught up to him.
@@Saewelo-returns OK abuse apologist
strange that his neighbors and close friends talk about the morbid details with very uncaring comments?
I'm from a small Canadian village in Ontario and we are all very blunt. There was a local man who was brutally killed in a freak chainsawing accident involving a tree and we all knew every detail and he was a very well liked guy
I'm really pissed that we were held in rapt attention only to have the story come to an abrupt STOP. No conclusion.
I think he knew who killed his friend but didn't say for he couldn't prove It. It appears to me it was his widow. Who would investigate crimes on the island?
Cuban step son did it, saw his mother get beaten, that was it I bet
Sandra, they're keeping you in suspense...
Part 2 link if you scroll to the top, Sandra.
There is a part 2....chill lady.
But in a stabbing there was no forensic evidence? Fingerprints? Other blood? Often a stabbing the murderer will cut himself also. And a professional hit job probably wouldn’t do such a sloppy job of murder
James Lade You are right on
You are right on
clearly it wasn't a sloppy job or some evidence would have been found... perhaps it was set up to look like a crime of passion.
Yeah the police are going to tell you everything they know
One always interviews people closest to the murder victim first, his family members. Sadly, most murders are committed by people with whom the victim knew well. In this case, the wife; I believe she killed him! From the ex-girlfriend’s experience living with him, he seemed very abusive and may have been that way with his wife from Cuba, and perhaps she was tired of his horrible treatment. THE LOCAL POLICE NEED TO LOOK INTO THIS!!
Im from cortes, and that is not the first murder that happened on the island.
Really?
Really all of those islands in BC are the perfect place to murder someone because of the isolation and secluded area.
So she did it? N you guys all know it?
I'm from Cortes aswell....and I'm not aware of other murders, care to enlighten us ? Been here 30 years.
I'm really loving your videos 😊
Conveniently, Abagail spent that night (like so many others) elsewhere. MmHmm.
Step-son. Sounds like there was a lot of personal anger. If he beats women ... he beats children.
Not necessarily. My father beat my mother on a weekly basis. Me and my siblings were never even spanked.
And doesn't he look unhappy in the picture of him with the mother and Stefano the little boy's face he didn't look happy at all.
it was her!!
Definitely!!
I grew up on the most northwestern continental US island next to Vancouver island. It’s beautiful there and it seems like everyone is an artist of some kind.
That is Washington State ? I have been to Victoria Vancouver Island ! - from Vancouver B.C City !
I’ve seen stories like this before and you can’t help but think maybe there is a reason the police did not pursue it. (Edit) that also of course it could be still be being investigated.
MissDroplette unsolved murder cases don’t go closed.
Could be that the wife fears for her life as well.
Let’s see:
He was planning to “get back to Italy” according to the son.
According to the ex girlfriend he beats women for the smallest things.
So could it be that the wife was probably battered.
She sees that he is going to Italy and may reconnect with his biological son and build a close relationship.
Wife becomes jealous( maybe she would also lose money to the biological son)
she fights with him not wanting to go to Italy he beats her...she conveniently she makes it so she is “not home” the night he is murdered and no there still is no justice for her husband for all these years.
Finally someone wants to find the justice that the son desperately wants and the wife becomes enraged shuts everyone down...what??? Hmmm I wonder who is involved in killing this man?!?! 🤔. The wife is not the only one that lost someone and all those people that are “loyal” to the wife need to help and talk tell what they know. The son deserves to know who killed his father.
Where's the rest of it?
There is a part two listed at the top in the information.
6/7 months later and still no part 2? Really guys?
This sounds like one sleeping dog that should not be disturbed. I think everybody, including the police, knew this guy was extremely abusive. In such a small place, the physical signs of abuse would have been clear to see over time. Extremely battered women truly fear for their life and that of their children with good reason. Somebody assisted in a final defense, if not the son himself, who interestingly relocated to Italy. Sounds like everyone is covering for the abused and justice may have been served in a final act of self-defense.
Wow, the artist was an abuser, his fate ended in eye for an eye!
The wife probably knows what happen to him.....
Who's Abigail's current boyfriend. Who benefited the most from his death?
So he was a violent misogynist and a neglectful father, hiding behind a charismatic "artist" persona. I can't honestly say I regret what happened.
You go Girl.
Abigail knows something.
I really think the son of the wife did it.. You would have to know where that house was and we're he slept..
The wife has something to do with it, I'm sure of that.
He was seeing someone's wife
This is very simple. Samuel, Abigail's son did it when she was away because he was enraged by the way Stefano was treating his mother.
There is no update to this story on your website. When do you expect to have an update?
Now he's married to a Caucasian woman, and she calls all the shots and abuses him. I never remarried, better to be alone then abused.
Very much enjoy your videos. Keep 'em coming. Thanx.
Wow awesome footage, story and history background. Thank you 😊 for sharing
crime of passion....
I used to live in Campbell River bc in 2006 and I would go visit friends on cortez island, cortez island has very nice people , when i would visit the island I would only find 3 or 4 stores , all the stores would sell fuel, beer lol etc... it is a very quiet place with fantastic seafood restaurants, there is no police office building on cortez island and it's takes 45 minutes by ferry to cortez island from Quadra island
Had no idea about this murder when I stayed on Cortes
When were You there ?
Is that cabin for sale....It looked petty nice!
Three things that stood out for me before I got to the ending of this episode: 1.Victim was in a relationship with someone from a vibrant culture, but ended up living in a remote island. 2.The victims wife was popular and well liked by the small community. 3.The wife was conveniently not home the day of the brutal murder. God, I can't wait for the next episode!
SEAN SOUDICA
Exactly and I think the mafia rumor was started by someone who perhaps watched films but doesn’t understand that they do not behave in that manner.Perhaps someone who grow up in another country that has a very limited knowledge about those kinds of things.
Omg 😲 Ithose views are amazing, how sad such a horrible thing occurred in such a beautiful place that could be described as heaven on earth 🌏
Very interesting, nice presentation.
So there's no follow-up? I checked out the website found the subject but it's the same footage.
Yeah....talk about disgusted. Wtf👎
Abigail is unhappy, 😅, why????? GUILTY! Lock her up!
This is interesting a small town and case not solved yet that's so weird thank you for sharing
I hate to jump to conclusions, but her reaction to his inquiry was flat-out strange. This isn't a tabloid looking for lurid, meaningless bs. If your husband's murder is unsolved, how does having an inquiry like this hurt it? Most family members of victims whose deaths remain unsolved will do anything and everything to keep attention on their case. I look forward to further updates.
what goes around, comes around.
One wife beater less in a world. Be careful who you beat... they may get back at you some day.
@Yulia Orme...I hear you sister.
Abigail did it for sure and she has been in contact with the ex partner too. Keep going and investigate this...
He was an awful person and that whole island knows it. They clearly adore Abigail. Someone on Cortes took him out and they don’t want to talk about it. Close (read: closed) communities can be like that. It will never be solved and the answers will die on the island with the people. History will forget who killed Stefano Savioli.
Perfectly stated, IMO. The island feels justice has been done, and they want to get back to their tranquil lives.
Zoë Evans Absolutely. I don’t endorse vigilante justice, but it’s definitely my theory that that’s what took place. 🤫
RIGHT! \I am very interested in this case since it seems like it was pulled right out of a mystery novel! I do believe that the wife was involved, and the community-supported her, a tight group of people who know who did the dirty deed, but will never backstab the victim of such horrendous assault! Vae Victus.
Sounds like he beat the wrong woman.
Did he have life insurance?
He art teacher may be hiding some thing. The way he is using the mafia as a reason to distract from the real deal.
And now he is making money off his paintings!?
I have a feeling he does a lot of acid. Lol
I think the mother had the step son kill him and its a cover up
They speak as if they were all high as a kite on pot
Lol the reality is that the "high on pot" stereotype is just low IQ people. They tend to congregate on islands off the west coast. I'm high af right now and I promise you I don't talk like them :P
Wow.......Cortes Island looks insane. Almost as if the city of Boulder relocated.
It is the retirement home of some Woodstock attendees. peace, love, harmony and homicide
@@JamesBond-uz2dm Do not touch the brown acid...
If a man ever called a hill a bluff in front of me I would slap him in the face!! Disgraceful!!
Lol
He had it comin lol
A dead artist is Worth more , investors wanted double their money back that easy !
The wife hired a hit man on her husband...
This seems like the type of place where everyone minds their business even with a wife beater in their midsts. Knowing the nonsensical, codependent, and toxic relationship between abusers and their victims, it would have been nice if her “neighbors” assisted or advised her. Nice community, indeed.
At least they were consistent, not rat out a wife beater, not rat out the retaliator!
Having known people, including several millionaires, who live on islands, it may seem idyllic but it can be a cesspool of malice and filthy mouthed, small minded gossips.
I hope they find out who shot J.R ?
😂
our producer grew up on an Island close by.... from the late 60's thru the 70's and told us This is but one mystery one can find on the Discovery Islands.... research farther back and dig deeper.
Land Sea Air Canada - Wow, really? Sounds scary, but interesting.
Has anyone considered the son of his wife from Cuba? If he witnessed his mother being treated badly, he either "helped" her or took it upon himself. That's why she doesn't want further investigation or to assist you. Good luck with your continued efforts.
The guy is in a place that he could just disappear and be found floating a few days later and it’s a mystery not a brutal murder seen that the police have an investigation because of
If theses nice suits did a brutal murder they would need to change their clothing
It is completely nonsensical that they would come all the way form Cicely to assassinate a person who lives in seclusion warring $40,000 suits and sitting in public so they can be identified by police and locals who could not help seeing theses people if they tried
The people would blend into the back ground. Death is in and out as fast and silent as possible they would not rent a room the guy who cases the place before the death squad ever shows up so they know what they are doing before they get there and spotters who may stay as fisherman vacationing after just to know what everyone is believing
Sounds to me like maybe he'd abused his wife and she killed him or had him killed and that's why she doesn't want him to investigate.
Are we getting more parts to this
I vacation here ever summer since I was a boy really hope this gets solved. Also your expedience with Cortes sounds very much like my own childhood awesome.
Where's part 2 ?
The answer in one of the painting. ?....
I believe the wife, but had the son do it for her or he did it for them, if he was abusive. I say if because of ‘proof’ (domestic calls, neighbors helping or some evidence of abuse)..not that there HAS to be some, many women don’t report but to me it’s convenient for him to be an abuser
where are the other parts? this was from march
sounds like the wife and her son should be investigated
Where's the rest of it?!!
Is there a Part 2 ?
"He was not able to be a father" : quote from eldest son...AND ..."She was the Queen", ..... eh ?
The wife knows exactly what happened to him. He wanted her out soon. To much money for her to walk. He needs to head to Cuba that’s where the murderer is.
RIGHT! Super frustrating, keep checking this channel now and then for a part 2, can't seem to find any new information. Maybe deliberate of them since the investigation may have lead to nowhere, though I am very interested in this case since it seems like it was pulled right out of a mystery novel! I do believe that the wife was involved, and the community-supported her, a tight group of people who know who did the dirty deed, but will never backstab the victim of such horrendous assault! Vae Victus.
Where is the wife ? I hope she is under investigation Phone records , internet etc.
Where is wife now and son? Fifth Estate is closing in regardless if she feels she’s above law to be questioned ... wake up it’s public interest now hopefully Canadian Police will wake up too and do their job!
Thanks Harvey 😊 great job 👍😁
Where can I watch part 2?