Prosecutors discuss surveillance video in Fambro case

WARREN — William “Big Shot” Fambro doesn’t see very well, but surveillance video from the Riverview Motel saw everything you would need to convict Fambro of killing Teresa Hunter last Oct. 14, an assistant prosecutor said.

Fambro, 44, of Fourth Street Southwest, is on trial in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court, charged with aggravated murder, aggravated robbery and being a felon in possession of a firearm in the death of Hunter, 35, of Hamilton Street Southwest.

Assistant Prosecutor Chris Becker told jurors in opening statements today they will be provided with the entire surveillance video showing the front door of the motel.

And they could watch all 19 hours of it — like Warren police did — and it would show that from the time Fambro and Hunter entered the motel about 4 p.m. Oct. 14 until 11 a.m. Oct. 15, when Hunter was found dead, only Fambro came or went through the motel door.

Fambro’s own wife — whom Fambro married eight days before Hunter’s death — identified Fambro as the man leaving the motel at about 5 p.m. Oct. 14, Becker said.

But several other people know something about this case, Becker said. And he called several of them to the witness stand today. Three are women who have helped Fambro get to banks and stores over the years because he has limited vision.

Several called him “blind,” including a woman testified that Fambro helped her buy a handgun a short time before Hunter died but who says Fambro apparently stole the gun from her and then threatened to kill her.

She hesitated at first to tell police her suspicions that Fambro had killed Hunter because “I didn’t think they would believe it because he is blind.”

But she also testified that Fambro had the ability to do things like count money. The trial resumes after lunch.