911 recording reveals horror of Niles murder scene

NILES — Niles police today released the 911 tape of the call Marie Belcastro made to the Niles Police Department after finding her mother slain in her Cherry Street home Tuesday.

The tape makes it clear the horror she encountered at about 5:30 p.m. after going there for a visit.

“I just walked into her house, and I finally found her. She looks like she’s all smashed. There’s blood in every room. It looks like the house was ransacked.”

The dispatcher asked the woman the age of her mother, and she replied, “She was 94. I think she is dead. She’s twisted here in the bedroom.

“I think someone came in. I know somebody came in here. There’s pieces of furniture strewn all over.”

Jacob Larosa, 15, was charged with aggravated murder in Belcastro's death on Wednesday and is being held in the Trumbull Juvenile Detention Center in Warren.