A Monroe County Grand Jury voted this afternoon to indict Laura Rideout, her two sons and her boyfriend on charges of second degree murder and of tampering with physical evidence.
All are charged in connection with the death of Craig Rideout. The 50-year-old man’s body was found off a roadside in Jerusalem, in Yates County. His face had been disfigured with acid and his body was wrapped in a tarp.
The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office soon learned that 45-year-old Laura Rideout and her boyfriend, Paul Tucci, had bought drain cleaner and a tarp at Walmart before Rideout’s body was found (surveillance photo shown). They caught her sons, 19-year-old Alexander and 23-year-old Colin Rideout, disposing of evidence in Mendon Ponds Park. And they found DNA evidence in the basement of Craig Rideout’s Penfield town home, where an attempt had been made to clean up blood.
DNA samples were taken from Laura Rideout and Paul Tucci. The District Attorney doesn’t say, but that evidence was presumably shown to the grand jury.
The investigation was led by the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department, with the assistance of the New York State Police and the Yates County Sheriff’s Department.