Watch the full video of 1994 Florida triple murder captured on VHS tape and featured on TV show ‘See No Evil’
A 1994 triple murder in Miramar, Florida, that was captured by a home security camera and recorded on a VHS tape is featured in a new episode of Investigation Discovery’s “See No Evil” that airs Feb. 1.
The remarkable, 22-minute video captures every second of the brutal crime from the moment two home invaders burst through the back door of Casimir Sucharski’s home in the early morning hours of June 6, 1994, until they escaped out the front leaving, three bodies behind.
“See No Evil,” in its 10th season, is a documentary TV show that focuses on notorious crimes captured by video cameras.
Sucharski, also known as Butch Casey, had just returned home from a late night at the popular Hollywood nightclub he owned, Casey’s Nickelodeon, with two female guests, Sharon Anderson and Marie Rogers. A video camera overlooking Sucharski’s living area recorded the scene as the three socialized.
But the footage turns violent when two armed men — both with their faces hidden by clothing — storm into the room and spend several minutes beating and terrorizing the three victims while seeming to search through the home and question Sucharski. Eventually, the intruders shoot and kill all three as they lay on the kitchen floor.
Moments before leaving, one of the killers exposes his face and walks directly in front of the camera, a moment that stunned investigators who otherwise would have had few leads.
Within months, police charged Pablo Ibar and Seth Penalver with the murders. After multiple trials, convictions, death sentences and successful appeals, a jury found Penalver innocent in December 2012 and set him free.
On Jan. 19, 2019, Pablo Ibar was convicted by a Broward County jury for the second time. Months later, he was spared the death penalty and sentenced to life in prison.
The crime and its decades-long court drama was featured in the premiere season of Felonious Florida, the true-crime podcast produced by journalists at the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
Throughout four episodes, the podcast covered how the astonishing video went from clear-cut evidence to a grainy, controversial battleground. While prosecutors maintained that the killer who uncovered his face in front of the camera was Ibar, defense lawyers argued it’s impossible to be sure and challenged the other scant evidence.
Ultimately, it was DNA found on a T-shirt dropped in front of Sucharski’s front door that helped lead to Ibar’s conviction.
The “See No Evil” episode featuring the Casey’s Nickelodeon Murders airs on Investigation Discovery on Feb. 1 at 9 p.m. and streams on Discovery+ starting Feb. 2.
