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Posted at: 11/23/2009 4:51 PM | WHEC.com Suspect in Geneva double murder pleads not guilty
Going into this arraignment, Kim Cascio knew this was going to be hard. She had been best friends with Buchel for more than 20 years. "I don't know honestly if I'll be able to look at him (Brown). I'm here right now but I don't know if I'll be able to look at him and I don't really want him to see me." Cascio says Brown and Buchel met in May and started dating which was right around the same time Buchel was in a car accident and became disabled. She says they were together constantly and eventually Brown moved in with Buchel and her daughter Brittany, a seventh grader at Geneva Middle School. Brown was on parole for assaulting an infant in 2003 but Cascio says Brown told Buchel he was in trouble for a bar fight. Cascio never trusted Brown but says he was good to Buchel, at least in public. Today, Cascio almost fainted when Brown came into the courtroom. At one point, Buchel's brother tried to charge at Brown and then during the arraignment, Brown turned around in court. Cascio said, "Then he looked back at the family and I though that was terrible. Almost as if he was saying he was guilty." Defense Attorney Robert Zimmerman said, "I think he was looking back to see if his mother was in the courtroom and he couldn't tell there was so many other people. I don't think he was looking back at the family. I think he was trying to see if his mother was in the courtroom." Brown pleaded not guilty. This not only affects Buschel's friends but also a lot of the Geneva school family. Brittany Passalacqua was in the middle school. Her older brother, who found the bodies on Friday, goes to the high school. The superintendent Dr. Robert Young says psychologists and social workers were at the schools today and a letter is going home to parents trying to answer the question - how do you talk to your kids about this? For more Rochester, N.Y. news go to our website www.whec.com.
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For the first time since Helen Buchel and Brittany Passalacqua were murdered in their Geneva apartment Friday, their family faced the man who was arrested. John Brown of Palmyra pleaded not guilty in Geneva City Court Monday.