 ANDERSON COUNTY, S.C. (TCD) — Investigators arrested a married couple eight years after four family members were found dead in a “brutal” killing that occurred on Halloween 2015.
The Anderson County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday, Dec. 15, that Amy Vilardi and her husband, Rosmore “Ross” Vilardi, were taken into custody at their home in Columbia, South Carolina, on charges of four counts of murder each.
On Nov. 2, 2015, Anderson County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a home on Refuge Drive after receiving a call about a possible shooting. Deputies did a sweep of the home and discovered 80-year-old Barbara Scott, 60-year-old Cathy Scott, 59-year-old Michael Scott, and 82-year-old Violet Taylor deceased. All four of the victims lived at the residence where they were found.
They had been killed Oct. 31.
Anderson County Sheriff Chad McBride spoke in a press conference Friday and said Amy Vilardi made the initial 911 call. She was Michael and Cathy Scott’s daughter and Taylor’s granddaughter.
Amy Vilardi reportedly told WSPA-TV in an interview following the killings that the victims were “wonderful people” and that they “just didn’t deserve this.”
McBride said the four victims were “senselessly and brutally murdered” and that detectives believed it to be “one of the worst scenes they’ve ever seen. It was gruesome, gory, and a devastating scene to see.”
The South Carolina Attorney General’s Office will prosecute the case.
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