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Concerns shift to the daughter of murdered dentist

Picture of Philip Gattuso and daughter Kennedy
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http://www.wday.com/event/article/id/26491/
Published November 03 2009
Concerns shift to the daughter of murdered dentist
By: Stephanie Goetz, WDAY

Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) - Charges have been filed against the grandfather
accused of master-minding the plan to kill his son-in-law. Court
documents show Gene Kirkpatrick video taped Philip Gattuso's car and
home in Fargo, gave the tape to hit-man Michael Nakvinda, and paid him
three-thousand dollars to kill Gattuso.

Charges were filed today. 63-year-old Gene Kirkpatrick is charged with
conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy commit burglary. The murder
charge is a maximum life in prison sentence, but Kirkpatrick is
fighting extradition back to Fargo.

He's being held without bond at the Oklahoma County jail. This is
Kirkpatrick at his first court appearance in Oklahoma City today. His
next hearing will be scheduled in the next 60 days.

At that hearing, Cass County authorities will have to prove by
fingerprints, photo ID, or witness testimony that he is the man
they're looking to charge. If it's ruled in Cass County's favor,
Kirkpatrick would be brought to Fargo.

The Gattuso family says their main focus now is a custody battle of
Philip's 3-year old daughter. Kennedy's aunt, the daughter of Gene
Kirkpatrick, filed papers to have full custody.

Roy Gatusso hasn't slept since he got the call his brother was killed.
That was 8 days ago.

"I cannot tell you how hard this is on my mother and our entire
family. My son has had to seek psychiatric help. Philip's son has had
to do the same."

Now the battle is shifting, Roy, Philip Gatusso's brother, says his
niece, Kennedy is in grave danger. Right now, she is staying with her
aunt, Reagan Kirkpatrick Williams, the daughter of the grandfather
arrested as an accomplice of Philip's murder, who police say, hired
someone to kill his son-in-law because he didn't like the way Kennedy
was being raised. Roy says the Kirkpatrick's were obsessed with
getting custody of the child.

"It's quite obvious they killed my brother to obtain custody of
Kennedy. They had no legal grounds, to obtain custody no proof, no on
but their own statements."

Williams filed for full custody of Kennedy, Monday. Something Roy says
they have wanted to do since Kennedy's mother got sick.

"They would constantly write emails and all kind of things to various
relatives. Even the day after my brother passed away that they were
sorry for his death but how they were so concerned how he was raising
the child."

But Roy says his brother was a fantastic father who loved his daughter
more than anything in the world: took her on vacations, made sure she
was getting the right education, she was even one of the reasons he
bought the Porsche.

"She was attached to her father like a Siamese twin. She would just
grab him around the neck and just would not let go."

Now, Roy has hired lawyers in Fargo and Oklahoma to get custody of
Kennedy. He says he and his wife want to raise Kennedy in Louisiana,
and get her away from, what he calls a dangerous situation.

Roy says the Kirkpatrick's are "not" letting Kennedy come down to her
father's funeral on Wednesday. Roy Gattuso says Philip told him he was
afraid of his father in law. Plans are in place to get the man accused
of killing Gattuso back to Cass County.

Sheriff Paul Laney says they'll be picking up Michael Nakvinda within
the next 10-days, but now that Kirkpatrick is fighting extradition,
they'll have to get him at a later date.

Laney will not release many details about the trip because he doesn't
want to risk the safety of his deputies or the men charged.

"We’re not trying to make this dramatic, but there has to be a shroud
of secrecy for the safety of all involved and that's why we won't
discuss it."

Cass County averages about 80-thousand miles a year extraditing
criminals back to North Dakota.

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